1 Thessalonians 2

1For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain,Cross-references: Job 39:16 · Ps 73:13 · Ps 127:1 · Isa 49:4 · Isa 65:23 · Hab 2:13 · +12 more

2but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict.Cross-references: Acts 4:13 · Acts 4:20 · Acts 4:31 · Acts 5:41 · Acts 6:9 · Acts 14:3 · +16 more

3For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.Cross-references: Num 16:15 · 1Sam 12:3 · Acts 20:33 · 2Cor 2:17 · 2Cor 4:2 · 2Cor 4:5 · +9 more

4But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak—not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.Cross-references: Num 27:16 · 1Ki 8:39 · 1Chr 29:17 · Ps 7:9 · Ps 17:3 · Ps 44:21 · +28 more

5For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),Cross-references: Job 17:5 · Job 32:21 · Ps 12:2 · Prov 20:19 · Prov 26:28 · Prov 28:23 · +27 more

6nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.Cross-references: Esth 1:4 · Esth 5:11 · Prov 25:27 · Dan 4:30 · John 5:41 · John 5:44 · +18 more

7But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.Cross-references: Gen 33:13 · Num 11:12 · Isa 40:11 · Isa 49:23 · Isa 66:13 · Ezek 34:14 · +11 more

8Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.Cross-references: Jer 13:15 · Luke 7:2 · Acts 20:23 · Rom 1:11 · Rom 9:1 · Rom 10:1 · +16 more

9For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.Cross-references: Neh 5:15 · Neh 5:18 · Ps 32:4 · Ps 88:1 · Jer 9:1 · Luke 2:37 · +25 more

10You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.Cross-references: Num 16:15 · 1Sam 12:3 · Job 29:11 · Job 31:1 · Ps 7:3 · Ps 18:20 · +19 more

11As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,Cross-references: Gen 50:16 · Num 27:19 · Deut 3:28 · Deut 31:14 · 1Chr 22:11 · 1Chr 28:9 · +29 more

12to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.Cross-references: Rom 8:28 · Rom 8:30 · Rom 9:23 · 1Cor 1:9 · Gal 5:16 · Eph 4:1 · +17 more

13For this cause we also thank God without ceasing that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, God’s word, which also works in you who believe.Cross-references: Jer 23:28 · Jer 44:16 · Matt 10:13 · Matt 10:20 · Matt 10:40 · Luke 5:1 · +33 more

14For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the JewsCross-references: Acts 8:1 · Acts 8:3 · Acts 9:1 · Acts 9:13 · Acts 9:31 · Acts 11:19 · +13 more

15who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men,Cross-references: Esth 3:8 · Amos 7:12 · Matt 5:12 · Matt 21:35 · Matt 23:31 · Matt 23:37 · +12 more

16forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.Cross-references: Gen 15:16 · Isa 45:22 · Joel 2:30 · Zech 5:6 · Mal 4:1 · Mal 4:5 · +38 more

17But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,Cross-references: Gen 31:30 · Gen 45:28 · Gen 48:11 · 2Sam 13:39 · 2Ki 5:26 · Ps 63:1 · +9 more

18because we wanted to come to you—indeed, I, Paul, once and again—but Satan hindered us.Cross-references: Job 33:14 · Zech 3:1 · Matt 4:10 · Rom 1:13 · Rom 15:22 · 1Cor 16:21 · +7 more

19For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?Cross-references: Prov 4:9 · Prov 12:4 · Prov 16:13 · Prov 17:6 · Isa 62:3 · Matt 16:27 · +20 more

20For you are our glory and our joy.Cross-references: Prov 17:6 · 1Cor 11:7 · 2Cor 1:14