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 4
Brit Hadashah 18 verses
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Moreover, brethren, as you learnt from our lips the lives which you ought to live, and do live, so as to please , we beg and exhort you in the of the Lord to live them more and more truly.
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Colossians 1:10 2 Thessalonians 1:3 Philippians 1:9 Ephesians 4:1 Colossians 2:6 Hebrews 13:16 2 Peter 3:18 2 Thessalonians 2:1 1 Timothy 6:13-14 Ephesians 5:17 2 Corinthians 6:1 Philippians 1:27 Romans 12:1-2 2 Corinthians 10:1 Proverbs 4:18 Philippians 3:14 1 Corinthians 15:58 1 John 3:22 Hebrews 11:6 Hebrews 13:22 John 15:2 2 Thessalonians 3:1 Ephesians 4:20 Job 17:9 2 Corinthians 13:11 1 Corinthians 15:1 1 Thessalonians 3:12 1 Thessalonians 4:2 Philemon 1:9-10 2 Peter 1:5-10 1 Timothy 5:21 2 Corinthians 5:9 Romans 8:8 2 Thessalonians 3:10-12 Psalm 92:14 1 Thessalonians 2:11-12 1 Thessalonians 4:10-12 Acts 20:27 1 Corinthians 11:23 2 Timothy 4:1 -
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For you the commands which we laid upon you by the authority of the Lord .
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For this is Elohim’s will—your purity of life, that you abstain from fornication;
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1 Peter 4:2 1 Thessalonians 5:23 Colossians 3:5 Ephesians 5:17 Ephesians 6:6 Romans 12:2 1 Thessalonians 4:4 2 Thessalonians 2:13 Ephesians 5:3-5 Psalm 40:8 Galatians 5:19 Hebrews 13:4 John 17:17-19 1 Peter 1:2 Ephesians 5:26-27 Matthew 7:21 Romans 6:22 1 Corinthians 1:30 1 Corinthians 6:13-18 Acts 20:32 Revelation 21:8 2 Corinthians 12:21 1 John 2:17 Psalm 143:10 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 John 4:34 1 Corinthians 7:2 Hebrews 10:36 Acts 15:20 Acts 26:18 Mark 3:35 Matthew 12:50 Matthew 15:19 Colossians 1:9 Acts 15:29 Titus 2:14 Hebrews 13:21 Hebrews 12:16 Colossians 4:12 John 7:17 1 Thessalonians 5:18 Revelation 22:15 Romans 1:29 1 Corinthians 5:9-11 - 4 that each man among you shall how to procure a wife who shall be his own in purity and ;
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and that in this matter there be no encroaching on the rights of a brother Messiahian and no overreaching him. For the Lord is an avenger in all such cases, as we have already taught you and solemnly warned you.
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Romans 12:19 Hebrews 13:4 Ephesians 4:28 Ezekiel 22:13 Luke 12:5 1 Corinthians 6:7-9 Leviticus 25:17 Galatians 5:21 2 Thessalonians 1:8 Micah 2:2 Ecclesiastes 5:8 Proverbs 11:1 Proverbs 22:22-23 Leviticus 19:13 Jeremiah 7:6 Proverbs 16:11 1 Samuel 12:3-4 Malachi 3:5 James 2:6 Romans 13:4 Exodus 20:17 Deuteronomy 25:13-16 Romans 1:18 Leviticus 19:11 Ephesians 4:17 Leviticus 25:14 Proverbs 20:23 Isaiah 5:7 Zephaniah 3:5 Ephesians 5:6 Amos 8:5-6 Psalm 140:12 Proverbs 20:14 Zephaniah 3:1 Deuteronomy 32:35 Jeremiah 9:4 Proverbs 28:24 James 5:4 Exodus 20:15 Ezekiel 45:9-14 Deuteronomy 24:7 Isaiah 1:23-24 Mark 10:19 Job 31:13-14 Isaiah 59:4-7 Psalm 94:1 -
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has not called us to an unclean life, but to one of purity.
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- 8 Therefore a defiant in such a case provokes not man but , who puts His Holy into your hearts.
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But on the subject of for the brotherhood it is unnecessary for me to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by to one another;
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1 John 3:11 Romans 12:10 1 John 3:23 Hebrews 13:1 1 Thessalonians 5:1 John 13:34-35 1 John 2:10 1 John 4:21 Matthew 22:39 John 15:12-17 Psalm 133:1 Jeremiah 31:34 2 Peter 1:7 John 14:26 Hebrews 10:16 1 John 3:14-19 1 Peter 4:8 Hebrews 8:10-11 Leviticus 19:8 Ephesians 5:1-2 1 Peter 3:8 John 6:44-45 Acts 4:32 Isaiah 51:13 1 John 2:20-27 1 John 4:7-16 - 10 and indeed you do all the brethren throughout Macedonia. And we exhort you to do so more and more,
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and to vie with one another in eagerness for , every one minding his own business and working with his hands, as we ordered you to do:
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Ephesians 4:28 1 Peter 4:15 1 Peter 3:4 1 Timothy 2:2 Titus 3:14 Ecclesiastes 4:6 Luke 12:42-43 Lamentations 3:26 2 Thessalonians 3:7-12 Proverbs 17:1 Mark 13:34 2 Corinthians 5:9 Acts 18:3 1 Peter 4:10-11 Romans 12:4-8 Acts 20:35 Titus 2:4-10 1 Timothy 5:13 Romans 12:11 1 Corinthians 4:12 Romans 15:20 Colossians 3:22-24 - 12 so as to live worthy lives in relation to outsiders, and not be a burden to any one.
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Now, concerning those who from time to time pass away, we would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, lest you should mourn as others do who have no .
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2 Peter 3:4 Ephesians 2:12 John 11:11-13 Ezekiel 37:11 Daniel 12:2 Acts 7:60 2 Peter 3:8 1 Corinthians 15:18-19 Romans 1:13 Luke 8:52-53 Ezekiel 24:16-18 1 Corinthians 10:1 1 Thessalonians 5:10 1 Thessalonians 4:15 Leviticus 19:28 John 11:24 2 Samuel 12:19-20 1 Kings 1:21 2 Corinthians 1:8 Acts 8:2 Acts 13:36 Genesis 37:35 Proverbs 14:32 1 Corinthians 15:6 1 Corinthians 12:1 Deuteronomy 14:1-2 Job 19:25-27 1 Kings 2:10 Job 1:21 Matthew 27:52 2 Samuel 18:33 - 14 For if we believe that has died and risen again, we also believe that, through , will bring with Him those who shall have passed away.
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For the Lord Himself will come down from Heaven with a loud of command, and with an archangel’s voice and the trumpet of , and the dead in will rise first.
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Revelation 1:7 Matthew 24:30-31 Matthew 16:27 1 Corinthians 15:51-52 2 Thessalonians 1:7 Matthew 25:31 1 Corinthians 15:23 Isaiah 27:13 Psalm 47:5 Acts 1:11 Jude 1:9 Exodus 19:16 Zechariah 9:14 Matthew 26:64 Revelation 20:5-6 2 Thessalonians 2:1 Psalm 47:1 Zechariah 4:7 Zechariah 9:9 Revelation 14:13 Revelation 8:13 Joel 2:11 Isaiah 25:8-9 2 Peter 3:10 Revelation 1:10 Numbers 23:21 Exodus 20:18 -
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Afterwards we who are alive and are still on earth will be caught up in their company amid clouds to meet the Lord in the air.
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Revelation 11:12 1 Corinthians 15:52 John 14:3 Revelation 7:14-17 John 12:26 John 17:24 1 Thessalonians 4:15 Acts 1:9 Isaiah 60:19-20 Philippians 1:23 Matthew 26:64 Revelation 21:3-7 2 Corinthians 5:8 Psalm 17:15 Psalm 16:11 Daniel 7:13 Revelation 1:7 Revelation 22:3-5 2 Corinthians 12:2-4 Acts 8:39 Mark 14:62 2 Peter 3:13 Psalm 49:15 2 Kings 2:16 Revelation 21:22-23 Revelation 12:5 1 Kings 18:12 Isaiah 35:10 Psalm 73:24 -
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And so we shall be with the Lord for ever. Therefore encourage one another with these words.
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