1 Thessalonians 2:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called,

1 John 2:6

he that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked.

1 Thessalonians 4:12

that ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and may have need of nothing.

1 Peter 5:10

And the God of all grace, who called you unto his eternal glory in Christ, after that ye have suffered a little while, shall himself perfect, stablish, strengthen you.

1 Thessalonians 5:24

Faithful is he that calleth you, who will also do it.

Colossians 1:10

to walk worthily of the Lord unto all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Ephesians 5:8

For ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light

1 Peter 2:9

But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that ye may shew forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

1 Thessalonians 4:1

Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk,--that ye abound more and more.

Colossians 2:6

As therefore ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him,

Ephesians 5:2

and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell.

Galatians 5:16

But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

1 Corinthians 1:9

God is faithful, through whom ye were called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

Philippians 1:27

Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ: that, whether I come and see you or be absent, I may hear of your state, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the gospel;

1 Peter 3:9

not rendering evil for evil, or reviling for reviling; but contrariwise blessing; for hereunto were ye called, that ye should 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, which was given us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

Romans 8:28

And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.

Romans 8:30

and whom he foreordained, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

Genesis 5:22

and Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

2 Corinthians 4:6

Seeing it is God, that said, Light shall shine out of darkness, who shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

2 Thessalonians 1:10

when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at in all them that believed (because our testimony unto you was believed) in that day.

2 Peter 1:3

seeing that his divine power hath granted unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that called us by his own glory and virtue;

3 John 1:6

who bare witness to thy love before the church: whom thou wilt do well to set forward on their journey worthily of God:

2 Chronicles 17:4

but sought to the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.