1 Thessalonians 2:1

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For you yourselves know, brothers, that our acceptance among you was not empty.

Cross References

Job 39:16

She is hardened against her young, as if they were not hers; she has labored in vain, with no fear compelling her.

Psalm 127:1

A Canticle in steps. Blessed are all those who fear the Lord, who walk in his ways.

Psalm 73:13

In your virtue, you confirmed the sea. You crushed the heads of the serpents in the waters.

Isaiah 49:4

And I said: "I have labored toward emptiness. I have consumed my strength without purpose and in vain. Therefore, my judgment is with the Lord, and my work is with my God."

Isaiah 65:23

My elect will not labor in vain, and they will not bring forth in disorder. For they are the offspring of the blessed of the Lord, and their posterity are with them.

Habakkuk 2:13

Are not these things before the Lord of hosts? For the people will labor amid a great fire, and the nations will labor in emptiness, and they will fail.

1 Corinthians 15:10

But, by the grace of God, I am what I am. And his grace in me has not been empty, since I have labored more abundantly than all of them. Yet it is not I, but the grace of God within me.

1 Corinthians 15:2

By the Gospel, too, you are being saved, if you hold to the understanding that I preached to you, lest you believe in vain.

1 Corinthians 15:58

And so, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and unmovable, abounding always in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not useless in the Lord.

2 Corinthians 6:1

But, as a help to you, we exhort you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

Galatians 2:2

And I went up according to revelation, and I debated with them about the Gospel that I am preaching among the Gentiles, but away from those who were pretending to be something, lest perhaps I might run, or have run, in vain.

Galatians 4:11

I am afraid for you, lest perhaps I may have labored in vain among you.

Philippians 2:16

holding to the Word of Life, until my glory in the day of Christ. For I have not run in vain, nor have I labored in vain.

1 Thessalonians 2:13

For this reason also, we give thanks to God without ceasing: because, when you had accepted from us the Word of the hearing of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but (as it truly is) as the Word of God, who is working in you who have believed.

1 Thessalonians 3:5

For this reason also, I was not willing to wait any longer, and I sent to find out about your faith, lest perhaps he who tempts may have tempted you, and our labor might have been in vain.

2 Thessalonians 1:10

when he arrives to be glorified in his saints, and to become a wonder in all those who have believed, in that day, because our testimony has been believed by you.

2 Thessalonians 3:1

Concerning other things, brothers, pray for us, so that the Word of God may advance and be glorified, just as it is among you,