1 Thessalonians 2:13

Weymouth NT

And for this further reason we render unceasing thanks to God, that when you received God's Message from our lips, it was as no mere message from men that you embraced it, but as –what it really is– God's Message, which also does its work in the hearts of you who believe.

Cross References

Matthew 10:20

for it is not you who will speak: it will be the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

Matthew 10:40

»Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives Him who sent me.«

Luke 11:28

»Nay rather,« He replied, »they are blessed who hear God's Message and carefully keep it.«

Luke 5:1

On one occasion the crowd was pressing on Him and listening to God's Message, while He was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret.

Luke 8:11

The meaning of the parable is as follows. The seed is God's Message.

Luke 8:21

»My mother and my brothers,« He replied, »are these who hear God's Message and obey it.«

John 15:3

Already you are cleansed–through the teaching which I have given you.

John 17:17

Make them holy in the truth: Thy Message is truth.

John 17:19

and on their behalf I consecrate myself, in order that they may become perfectly consecrated in truth.

Acts 10:33

»Immediately, therefore, I sent to you, and I thank you heartily for having come. That is why all of us are now assembled here in God's presence, to listen to what the Lord has commanded you to say.«

Acts 13:48

The Gentiles listened with delight and extolled the Lord's Message; and all who were pre-destined to the Life of the Ages believed.

Acts 16:14

Among our hearers was one named Lydia, a dealer in purple goods. She belonged to the city of Thyateira, and was a worshipper of the true God. The Lord opened her heart, so that she gave attention to what Paul was saying.

Acts 17:11

The Jews at Beroea were of a nobler disposition than those in Thessalonica, for they very readily received the Message, and day after day searched the Scriptures to see whether it was as Paul stated.

Acts 17:32

When they heard Paul speak of a resurrection of dead men, some began to scoff. But others said, »We will hear you again on that subject.«

Acts 2:41

Those, therefore, who joyfully welcomed his Message were baptized; and on that one day about three thousand persons were added to them;

Acts 8:14

When the Apostles in Jerusalem heard that the Samaritans had accepted God's Message, they sent Peter and John to visit them.

Romans 10:17

And this proves that faith comes from a Message heard, and that the Message comes through its having been spoken by Christ.

2 Corinthians 3:18

And all of us, with unveiled faces, reflecting like bright mirrors the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same likeness, from one degree of radiant holiness to another, even as derived from the Lord the Spirit.

Galatians 4:14

and yet the bodily infirmity which was such a trial to you, you did not regard with contempt or loathing, but you received me as if I had been an angel of God or Christ Jesus Himself!

Colossians 1:6

For it has reached you, and remains with you, just as it has also spread through the whole world, yielding fruit there and increasing, as it has done among you from the day when first you heard it and came really to know the grace of God,

Hebrews 4:12

For God's Message is full of life and power, and is keener than the sharpest two-edged sword. It pierces even to the severance of soul from spirit, and penetrates between the joints and the marrow, and it can discern the secret thoughts and purposes of the heart.

Hebrews 4:2

For Good News has been brought to us as truly as to them; but the message they heard failed to benefit them, because they were not one in faith with those who gave heed to it.

James 1:18

In accordance with His will He made us His children through the Message of the truth, so that we might, in a sense, be the Firstfruits of the things which He has created.

1 Peter 1:23

For you have been begotten again by God's ever-living and enduring word from a germ not of perishable, but of imperishable life.

1 Peter 1:25

But the word of the Lord remains for ever.« And that means the Message which has been proclaimed among you in the Good News.

1 Peter 2:2

Thirst, like newly-born infants, for pure milk for the soul, that by it you may grow up to salvation;

2 Peter 3:2

so that you may recall the words spoken long ago by the holy Prophets, and the commandments of our Lord and Saviour given you through your Apostles.

1 John 3:3

And every man who has this hope fixed on Him, purifies himself so as to be as pure as He is.