1 Thessalonians 1:5

New Century Version

because the Good News we brought to you came not only with words, but with power, with the Holy Spirit, and with sure knowledge that it is true. Also you know how we lived when we were with you in order to help you.

Cross References

Isaiah 55:11

The same thing is true of the words I speak. They will not return to me empty. They make the things happen that I want to happen, and they succeed in doing what I send them to do.

Mark 16:20

The followers went everywhere in the world and told the Good News to people, and the Lord helped them. The Lord proved that the Good News they told was true by giving them power to work miracles.]

Luke 1:1

Many have tried to report on the things that happened among us.

Acts 11:21

The Lord was helping the believers, and a large group of people believed and turned to the Lord.

Acts 16:14

One of the listeners was a woman named Lydia from the city of Thyatira whose job was selling purple cloth. She worshiped God, and he opened her mind to pay attention to what Paul was saying.

Acts 2:33

Jesus was lifted up to heaven and is now at God’s right side. The Father has given the Holy Spirit to Jesus as he promised. So Jesus has poured out that Spirit, and this is what you now see and hear.

Romans 1:16

I am not ashamed of the Good News, because it is the power God uses to save everyone who believes—to save the Jews first, and then to save non-Jews.

Romans 15:13

I pray that the God who gives hope will fill you with much joy and peace while you trust in him. Then your hope will overflow by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Romans 2:16

All these things will happen on the day when God, through Christ Jesus, will judge people’s secret thoughts. The Good News that I preach says this.

1 Corinthians 1:24

But Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God to those people God has called—Jews and Greeks.

1 Corinthians 10:33

just as I, also, try to please everybody in every way. I am not trying to do what is good for me but what is good for most people so they can be saved.

1 Corinthians 3:16

Don’t you know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

1 Corinthians 3:6

I planted the seed, and Apollos watered it. But God is the One who made it grow.

1 Corinthians 4:20

because the kingdom of God is present not in talk but in power.

1 Corinthians 9:14

In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who tell the Good News should get their living from this work.

2 Corinthians 3:6

He made us able to be servants of a new agreement from himself to his people. This new agreement is not a written law, but it is of the Spirit. The written law brings death, but the Spirit gives life.

Galatians 2:2

I went because God showed me I should go. I met with the believers there, and in private I told their leaders the Good News that I preach to the non-Jewish people. I did not want my past work and the work I am now doing to be wasted.

Galatians 5:5

But we have the true hope that comes from being made right with God, and by the Spirit we wait eagerly for this hope.

Ephesians 2:10

God has made us what we are. In Christ Jesus, God made us to do good works, which God planned in advance for us to live our lives doing.

Ephesians 3:20

With God’s power working in us, God can do much, much more than anything we can ask or imagine.

Philippians 2:13

because God is working in you to help you want to do and be able to do what pleases him.

Philippians 4:9

Do what you learned and received from me, what I told you, and what you saw me do. And the God who gives peace will be with you.

Colossians 2:2

I want them to be strengthened and joined together with love so that they may be rich in their understanding. This leads to their knowing fully God’s secret, that is, Christ himself.

1 Thessalonians 2:13

Also, we always thank God because when you heard his message from us, you accepted it as the word of God, not the words of humans. And it really is God’s message which works in you who believe.

2 Thessalonians 2:14

God used the Good News that we preached to call you to be saved so you can share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Timothy 2:10

So I patiently accept all these troubles so that those whom God has chosen can have the salvation that is in Christ Jesus. With that salvation comes glory that never ends.

2 Timothy 2:8

Remember Jesus Christ, who was raised from the dead, who is from the family of David. This is the Good News I preach,

Hebrews 10:22

let us come near to God with a sincere heart and a sure faith, because we have been made free from a guilty conscience, and our bodies have been washed with pure water.

Hebrews 6:11

We want each of you to go on with the same hard work all your lives so you will surely get what you hope for.

1 Peter 1:12

It was shown them that their service was not for themselves but for you, when they told about the truths you have now heard. Those who preached the Good News to you told you those things with the help of the Holy Spirit who was sent from heaven—things into which angels desire to look.

1 Peter 1:3

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. In God’s great mercy he has caused us to be born again into a living hope, because Jesus Christ rose from the dead.

1 Peter 5:3

Do not be like a ruler over people you are responsible for, but be good examples to them.

2 Peter 1:10

My brothers and sisters, try hard to be certain that you really are called and chosen by God. If you do all these things, you will never fall.

2 Peter 1:19

This makes us more sure about the message the prophets gave. It is good for you to follow closely what they said as you would follow a light shining in a dark place, until the day begins and the morning star rises in your hearts.