These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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1 Thessalonians 2
Brit Hadashah 20 verses
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For you yourselves, brethren, that our visit to you did not fail of its purpose.
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2 Thessalonians 1:10 Habakkuk 2:13 Psalm 127:1 Isaiah 49:4 Galatians 4:11 2 Corinthians 6:1 1 Thessalonians 2:13 Philippians 2:16 1 Thessalonians 3:5 2 Thessalonians 3:1 1 Corinthians 15:10 Galatians 2:2 1 Corinthians 15:2 1 Corinthians 15:58 1 Thessalonians 1:3-10 Isaiah 65:23 Psalm 73:13 Job 39:16 -
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But, as you will , after we had already met with suffering and outrage at Philippi, we summoned up boldness, by the help of our , to tell you Elohim’s Good News amid much opposition.
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- 3 For our preaching was not grounded on a delusion, nor prompted by mingled motives, nor was there fraud in it.
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But as tested and approved us before entrusting us with His Good News, so in what we say we are seeking not to please men but to please , who tests and approves our motives.
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Galatians 1:10 Galatians 2:7 Romans 8:27 1 Chronicles 29:17 Jeremiah 32:19 Titus 1:3 1 Corinthians 9:17 Psalm 17:3 Colossians 3:22 1 Corinthians 4:1-2 1 Timothy 6:20 Luke 16:11 1 Timothy 1:11-13 Ephesians 3:8 Psalm 44:21 Psalm 7:9 John 21:17 2 Corinthians 5:16 Proverbs 17:3 2 Corinthians 4:2 Numbers 27:16 John 2:24-25 Luke 12:42 1 Corinthians 2:4-5 Ephesians 6:6 Hebrews 4:13 2 Timothy 1:14 Psalm 139:1-2 1 Corinthians 7:25 2 Corinthians 5:11 2 Timothy 2:2 1 Kings 8:39 Jeremiah 17:10 Revelation 2:23 -
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For, as you are well aware, we have never used the language of flattery nor have we found pretexts for enriching ourselves— is our witness;
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Acts 20:33 Romans 1:9 2 Corinthians 12:17 1 Timothy 3:8 2 Peter 2:3 Micah 3:5 Jeremiah 6:13 Proverbs 26:28 Isaiah 30:10 Psalm 12:2-3 2 Corinthians 2:17 1 Peter 5:2 Revelation 18:12-13 Matthew 23:13 Job 17:5 Malachi 1:10 Romans 9:1 1 Thessalonians 2:10 Proverbs 20:19 Titus 1:7 2 Corinthians 7:2 2 Peter 2:14-15 1 Timothy 3:3 Romans 16:18 Proverbs 28:23 Jeremiah 8:10 Galatians 1:20 2 Peter 2:18 Matthew 22:16 Isaiah 56:11 Job 32:21-22 2 Corinthians 4:2 Jude 1:11 -
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nor did we seek either from you or from any other mere men, although we might have stood on our dignity as Messiah’s Apostles.
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John 5:41 1 Corinthians 9:1-2 Philemon 1:8-9 John 5:44 1 Thessalonians 2:9 Galatians 1:10 1 Timothy 5:17 John 12:43 1 Corinthians 12:13-15 1 Corinthians 11:9 Galatians 5:26 2 Corinthians 4:5 2 Corinthians 10:10-11 1 Corinthians 9:4-6 Daniel 4:30 Proverbs 25:27 Esther 1:4 Galatians 6:13 1 Corinthians 9:12-18 2 Corinthians 10:1-2 2 Corinthians 13:10 1 Thessalonians 3:8-9 Esther 5:11 John 7:18 - 7 On the contrary, in our relations to you we showed ourselves as gentle as a mother is when she tenderly nurses her own children.
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Seeing that we were thus drawn affectionately towards you, it would have been a joy to us to have imparted to you not only Elohim’s Good News, but to have given our very lives also, because you had become very dear to us.
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2 Corinthians 12:15 1 John 3:16 Philippians 2:17 Romans 1:11-12 Jeremiah 13:15-17 Philippians 1:8 2 Corinthians 6:1 Philippians 4:1 Philippians 2:25-26 2 Corinthians 6:11-13 Romans 10:1 Philemon 1:1 Colossians 4:12 Colossians 1:7 Philippians 2:20 Galatians 4:19 Hebrews 13:17 Romans 15:29 Colossians 1:28 Romans 9:1-3 Acts 20:23-24 Luke 7:2 -
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For you , brethren, our labour and toil: how, working night and day so as not to become a burden to any one of you, we came and proclaimed among you Elohim’s Good News.
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Acts 18:3 2 Corinthians 11:9 2 Thessalonians 3:7-9 1 Timothy 4:10 1 Timothy 1:11 Psalm 88:1 Acts 20:24 2 Timothy 1:3 Romans 1:1 Romans 15:19 Luke 18:7 1 Corinthians 4:12 2 Corinthians 6:5 Nehemiah 5:18 Philippians 4:16 1 Thessalonians 1:3 1 Corinthians 9:15 Acts 20:31 2 Corinthians 12:13-14 1 Thessalonians 3:10 1 Corinthians 9:6-7 1 Thessalonians 2:2 1 Thessalonians 2:6 1 Corinthians 9:18 Psalm 32:4 Jeremiah 9:1 Nehemiah 5:15 Romans 15:16 Acts 20:34-35 Luke 2:37 1 Timothy 5:5 -
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You yourselves are witnesses—and is witness—how and upright and blameless our dealings with you believers were.
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1 Thessalonians 1:5 2 Corinthians 1:12 Acts 20:18 1 Peter 5:3 Titus 2:7-8 2 Timothy 3:10 Psalm 18:20-24 2 Corinthians 11:31 Acts 20:33-34 Acts 24:16 Acts 20:26 1 Samuel 12:3-5 2 Corinthians 4:2 2 Corinthians 6:3-10 Job 31:1-39 Jeremiah 18:20 2 Corinthians 11:11 Psalm 7:3-5 2 Corinthians 5:11 Job 29:11-17 Numbers 16:15 2 Thessalonians 3:7 2 Corinthians 7:2 1 Timothy 4:12 1 Thessalonians 2:5 -
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For you that we acted towards every one of you as a father does towards his own children, encouraging and cheering you,
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1 Corinthians 4:14-15 1 Thessalonians 2:7 2 Timothy 4:1-2 1 Thessalonians 4:1 1 Timothy 5:21 1 Chronicles 28:20 Hebrews 13:22 Numbers 27:19 Proverbs 7:24 Deuteronomy 31:14 Acts 20:2 Genesis 50:16-17 Proverbs 3:1 Proverbs 6:1 Ephesians 4:17 Proverbs 2:1 Titus 2:15 Deuteronomy 3:28 1 Timothy 5:7 Proverbs 7:1 1 Thessalonians 5:11 Proverbs 1:15 1 Timothy 6:13 Psalm 34:11 Titus 2:6 1 Chronicles 28:9 1 Chronicles 22:11-13 1 Timothy 6:17 1 Timothy 6:2 Proverbs 1:10 Titus 2:9 2 Thessalonians 3:12 Proverbs 4:1-12 Proverbs 5:1-2 Proverbs 31:1-9 -
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and imploring you to live lives worthy of with who is inviting you to share His own Kingship and .
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Ephesians 4:1 1 Thessalonians 5:24 1 John 2:6 1 Peter 5:10 1 John 1:6-7 Colossians 2:6 Ephesians 5:8 Romans 8:28 Romans 8:30 Philippians 1:27 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12 2 Thessalonians 2:13-14 Romans 9:23-24 1 Corinthians 1:9 1 Peter 3:9 2 Timothy 1:9 1 Peter 2:9 1 Peter 1:15-16 Colossians 1:10 Ephesians 5:2 Galatians 5:16 1 Thessalonians 4:12 1 Thessalonians 4:1 -
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And for this further reason we render unceasing thanks to , that when you received Elohim’s Message from our lips, it was as no mere message from men that you embraced it, but as—what it really is—Elohim’s Message, which also does its work in the hearts of you who believe.
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Hebrews 4:12 Romans 10:17 Galatians 4:14 2 Peter 1:16-21 Acts 17:11 1 Peter 1:23 1 Peter 2:2 1 Peter 1:25 Acts 13:48 Acts 16:14 Acts 10:33 John 17:17 Acts 17:32 1 John 3:3 Luke 8:11 Luke 11:28 2 Corinthians 3:18 John 17:19 1 Thessalonians 1:5-10 1 Thessalonians 1:2-3 Romans 1:8-9 Romans 6:17-18 Acts 2:41 2 Peter 3:2 Matthew 10:13-14 Colossians 1:6 Acts 17:18-20 Acts 13:44-46 Acts 16:30-34 Luke 8:21 Matthew 10:40 1 John 5:4-5 Luke 5:1 Matthew 10:20 Jeremiah 44:16 Acts 8:14 John 15:3 Jeremiah 23:28-29 James 1:18 - 14 For you, brethren, followed the example of the Churches of in which are in Judaea; seeing that you endured the same ill-treatment at the hands of your countrymen, as they did at the hands of the Jews.
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for they still try to prevent our preaching to the Gentiles so that they may find . They thus continually fill up the measure of their own sins, and Elohim’s anger in its severest form has overtaken them.
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Acts 13:50 Matthew 23:32 Acts 17:13 Acts 14:19 2 Thessalonians 2:10 Genesis 15:16 Mark 16:16 Galatians 5:11 Malachi 4:1 Acts 14:5 Acts 22:21-22 Acts 13:45 Acts 18:12-13 Acts 21:27-31 1 Timothy 2:4 Hebrews 6:8 Ephesians 3:13 Acts 19:9 Matthew 24:6 Joel 2:30-31 Isaiah 45:22 1 Thessalonians 1:10 Matthew 22:6-7 Hebrews 10:27-30 Matthew 24:14 Revelation 22:11 Matthew 3:12 Matthew 3:7-10 Ephesians 3:8 Luke 21:20-24 Acts 11:2-3 Matthew 24:21-22 Acts 11:17-18 Malachi 4:5 Matthew 12:45 Acts 17:5-6 Zechariah 5:6-8 Matthew 21:41-44 Luke 19:42-44 Luke 11:50-51 Acts 4:12 Acts 14:2 Romans 10:13-15 James 5:1-6 - 17 But we, brethren, having been for a short time separated from you in bodily presence, though not in , endeavoured all the more earnestly, with intense longing, to see you face to face.
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For what is our or joy, or the of which we boast? Is it not you yourselves in the presence of our Lord at His Coming?
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Philippians 4:1 Philippians 2:16 2 Corinthians 1:14 1 Thessalonians 3:13 1 John 2:28 1 Thessalonians 5:23 1 Corinthians 15:23 Revelation 22:12 Titus 2:13 Proverbs 12:4 Matthew 16:27 Proverbs 17:6 1 Thessalonians 2:20 Revelation 1:7 Jude 1:24 1 Corinthians 4:5 Proverbs 16:13 2 Thessalonians 1:7 Romans 15:16-19 2 Timothy 4:1-2 Revelation 4:10-11 Isaiah 62:3 Proverbs 4:9 1 Timothy 6:14-15 1 Peter 5:4 1 Thessalonians 4:15 -
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Yes, you are our and our joy.
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