1 Thessalonians 3

Treated in 13 passages across the library.

The verses these writers stop at

  • 3:12 As for you, may the Lord fill you to overflowing with love for each other and for all people, the kind of love we have for you. 4
  • 3:13 Then your hearts will stand firm, without fault and holy before our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his holy ones. 3
  • 3:10 Night and day we pray with great urgency to see you face to face and to fill in whatever is still missing from your faith. 2
  • 3:2 and sent you Timothy, our brother and God's fellow worker in the gospel of Christ. We sent him to make you strong and to encourage you in your faith, 1
  • 3:8 Now we can truly live again, if you are standing firm in the Lord. 1
  • 3:9 What thanks can we give back to God for you, for all the joy we feel before our God because of you? 1
  • 3:11 Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, clear the way for us to come to you. 1

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Where it is preached

  1. A Brand Plucked from the Fire · Julia A. J. Foote

    Women in the Gospel cites 1 Thess. iii. 2

    …or, as in the Greek, his "fellow-laborer." Rom. xvi. 3; 2 Cor. viii. 23; Phil. ii. 25; 1 Thess. iii. 2. The same word, which, in our common translation, is now rendered a "servant of the…

  2. The Mortification of Sin in Believers · John Owen

    The foundation of the whole discourse, laid in Romans viii. 13 cites 1 Thess. iii. 8

    …and vigour of it: as the apostle says in another case, “Now I live, if ye stand fast,” 1 Thess. iii. 8; — “Now my life will do me good; I shall have joy and comfort with my life;” — “Ye shall…

  3. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    Part I. Concerning the nature of the affections and their importance in religion cites 1 Thess. 3:9

    …1:12 and chap. 7:7, and ver. 9. 16. Phil. 1:4, and chap. 2:12, and chap 3:3. Col. 1:24. 1 Thess. 3:9. He speaks of his “rejoicing with great joy,” Phil 4:10, Philem. 1:7; of his “joying and…

  4. How to Pray · R. A. Torrey

    The Importance of Prayer cites 1 Thess. 3:10

    …strength and thought was given to prayer. (Rom. 1:9, R.V.; Eph. 1:15,16; Col. 1:9, R.V.; 1 Thess. 3:10; 2 Tim. 1:3, R.V.) All the mighty men of God outside the Bible have been men of prayer.…

  5. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    Growth in Grace cites I Thess 3:10

    …into zeal. (6.) We need to grow in grace. There is still something lacking in our faith. I Thess 3:10. Grace is but in its infancy and minority, and we must still be adding a cubit to our…

  6. Communion with God · John Owen

    That this communion is distinctly with the Father, Son, and Spirit cites 1 Thess. iii. 11

    …and yet as expressly distinguish, the Father and the Son in directing his supplications, 1 Thess. iii. 11, “God himself even our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.” The…

  7. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 2, Chapter 5 — The Arguments Usually Alleged in Support of Free Will Refuted cites 1 Thess. 3:12

    …Law sounds in our ears without profit, if God do not implant it thoroughly in our hearts (1 Thess. 3:12). 7. I admit, indeed, that if the Scripture taught nothing else on the subject than that…

  8. Rooted – 30 Days with God for Youth – Book 5 · Ochorus Originals

    Conclusion: A Tree That Gives Shade cites 1 Thessalonians 3:12

    …cause you to increase and overflow with love for one another and for everyone else.” — 1 Thessalonians 3:12 (BSB)

  9. The Key Teachings of A. B. Simpson · Ochorus Originals

    A Larger Christian Life cites 1 THESSALONIANS 3:12

    …the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men. 1 THESSALONIANS 3:12 Paul’s prayer has two directions, and the second is the difficult one. One toward another…

  10. Holiness · J. C. Ryle

    Growth cites 1 Thess. iii. 12

    …when your faith is increased.” (2 Cor. x. 15.) “The Lord make you to increase in love.” (1 Thess. iii. 12.) “That ye may grow up into Him in all things.” (Eph. iv. 15.) “I pray that your love may…

  11. Holy in Christ · Andrew Murray

    Holiness and Resurrection cites 1 Thess. iii. 13

    …abstract as the attribute of an object, but another word (also used in 2 Cor. vii. 1 and 1 Thess. iii. 13) expressing the habit of holiness in its action—practical holiness or sanctity. Paul used…

  12. A Brand Plucked from the Fire · Julia A. J. Foote

    Love not the World cites 1 Thess. iii. 13

    …Oh! blessed union. Christian, God wants to establish your heart unblamable in holiness. 1 Thess. iii. 13; iv. 7; Heb. xii. 14; Rom. vi. 19. Will you let him do it, by putting away all filthiness…

  13. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 3, Chapter 17 — The Promises of the Law and the Gospel Reconciled cites 1 Thess. 3:13

    …end he may establish your hearts unblamable in holiness before God, even our Father,” (1 Thess. 3:13, and elsewhere). These words were strongly urged by the Celestines of old, in maintaining…