1 Thessalonians 2:4

Tree of Life Version

But just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we declare it—not pleasing men but rather God, who examines our hearts.

Cross References

1 Kings 8:39

then may you hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, forgive and act, and give to each man according to all his ways, as You know his heart to be. For You alone know the hearts of all the children of men.

2 Kings 16:16

Thus Urijah the kohen did everything just as King Ahaz commanded.

1 Chronicles 29:17

I know, my God, that You search the heart and take pleasure in uprightness. With integrity of heart I have willingly offered all these things. And now I have seen with joy Your people who are present here willingly contribute to You.

Psalm 139:23

Search me, O God, and know my heart. Examine me, and know my anxious thoughts,

Psalm 17:3

You have examined my heart. You searched me at night. Though You test me, You find nothing. I resolved that my mouth will not sin.

Psalm 44:21

If we had forgotten the Name of our God or stretched our hands to a foreign god,

Psalm 7:9

Adonai judges the peoples. Vindicate me, Adonai, according to my righteousness and integrity in me.

Proverbs 17:3

A crucible is for silver and a furnace is for gold, but Adonai tests the heart.

Jeremiah 17:10

I Adonai search the heart, I try the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.

Jeremiah 32:19

Great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of men, to give each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.

Numbers 27:16

“May Adonai, God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the community

Luke 12:42

And the Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom the master will put in charge of his servants, to give them their food portion at the proper time?

Luke 16:11

So then, if you cannot be trusted with unjust wealth, who will trust you with true wealth?

John 21:17

He said to him a third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me?” Peter was grieved because He said to him for a third time, “Do you love Me?” And he said to Him, “Lord, You know everything! You know that I love You!” Yeshua said to him, “Feed My sheep!”

Romans 8:27

And He who searches the hearts knows the mind of the Ruach, because He intercedes for the kedoshim according to the will of God.

1 Corinthians 7:25

Now concerning virgins I have no command from the Lord, but I give an opinion as one who by the Lord’s mercy is trustworthy.

1 Corinthians 9:17

For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have been entrusted with a commission.

2 Corinthians 2:17

For we are not like many, peddling the word of God. Rather, in Messiah we speak in the sight of God with sincerity, as persons sent from God.

2 Corinthians 4:2

Instead, we renounced the hidden shameful ways—not walking in deception or distorting the word of God, but commending ourselves before God to everyone’s conscience by the open proclamation of the truth.

2 Corinthians 5:11

Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we are trying to persuade people, but what we are is known to God—and I hope it is known to your consciences as well.

2 Corinthians 5:16

So from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Messiah according to the flesh, yet now we no longer know Him this way.

Galatians 1:10

Am I now trying to win people’s approval, or God’s? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Messiah.

Galatians 2:7

On the contrary, they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcised just as Peter was for the circumcised.

Ephesians 3:8

This favor was given to me, the very least of His kedoshim, to proclaim to the Gentiles the endless riches of the Messiah

Ephesians 6:6

not just under your master’s eye as people-pleasers, but as slaves of Messiah doing God’s will from the soul.

Colossians 3:22

Slaves, obey your human masters in every respect—not just within your master’s sight as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.

1 Timothy 6:20

O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you, turning away from pointless chatter and the contradictions of so-called knowledge—

2 Timothy 1:14

Guard the good that has been entrusted to you, through the Ruach ha-Kodesh who dwells in us.

2 Timothy 2:2

And what you have heard from me among many witnesses, entrust to faithful people who will be capable to teach others also.

Titus 1:3

But in His own time He made His message known, through a proclamation with which I was entrusted, by the command of God our Savior.

Hebrews 4:13

No creature is hidden from Him, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

1 Peter 4:11

Whoever speaks, let it be as one speaking the utterances of God. Whoever serves, let it be with the strength that God supplies. So in all things may God be glorified through Messiah Yeshua—all glory and power to Him forever and ever! Amen.

Revelation 2:23

I will also strike her children with a deadly disease. Then all of Messiah’s communities will know that I am the One who searches minds and hearts, and I will give to each of you according to your deeds.