1 Thessalonians 2:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² urging and encouraging you and pleading that you lead a life worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² that ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² To live lives worthy of God, Who calls you into His own kingdom and the glorious blessedness [into which true believers will enter after Christ's return].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² to the end that ye should walk worthily of God, who calleth you into his own kingdom and glory.

Common English Bible

¹² We appealed to you, encouraged you, and pleaded with you to live lives worthy of the God who is calling you into his own kingdom and glory.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² in which we were pleading with you and consoling you, bearing witness, so that you would walk in a manner worthy of God, who has called you into his kingdom and glory.

1 Thessalonians 2:12 Cross References

Ephesians 4:1

I, therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called,

1 John 2:6

whoever says, “I abide in him,” ought to walk in the same way as he walked.

1 Thessalonians 4:12

so that you may behave properly toward outsiders and be dependent on no one.

1 Peter 5:10

And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, support, strengthen, and establish you.

1 Thessalonians 5:24

The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do this.

Colossians 1:10

so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, as you bear fruit in every good work and as you grow in the knowledge of God.

Ephesians 5:8

for once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light. Walk as children of light,

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, in order that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

1 Thessalonians 4:1

Finally, brothers and sisters, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus that, as you learned from us how you ought to live and to please God (as, in fact, you are doing), you should do so more and more.

Colossians 2:6

As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, continue to walk in him,

Ephesians 5:2

and walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Galatians 5:16

Live by the Spirit, I say, and do not gratify the desires of the flesh.

1 Corinthians 1:9

God is faithful, by whom you were called into the partnership of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Philippians 1:27

Only, live your life in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that, whether I come and see you or am absent and hear about you, I will know that you are standing firm in one spirit, striving side by side with one mind for the faith of the gospel

1 Peter 3:9

Do not repay evil for evil or abuse for abuse, but, on the contrary, repay with a blessing. It is for this that you were called—that you might inherit a blessing.

2 Timothy 1:9

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works but according to his own purpose and grace, and this grace was given to us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,

Romans 8:28

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose.

Romans 8:30

And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.

Genesis 5:22

Enoch walked with God after the birth of Methuselah three hundred years and had other sons and daughters.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For it is the God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.

2 Thessalonians 1:10

when he comes to be glorified by his saints and to be marveled at on that day among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.

2 Peter 1:3

His divine power has given us everything needed for life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and excellence.

3 John 1:6

they have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on in a manner worthy of God,

2 Chronicles 17:4

but sought the God of his father and walked in his commandments and not according to the ways of Israel.