1 Thessalonians 4:1
Finally, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus to live in a way that is pleasing to God, just as you have received from us. This is how you already live, so you should do so all the more.
Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.
Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk,—that ye abound more and more.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- we
- 1 Thessalonians 2:11; Romans 12:1; 2 Corinthians 6:1; 2 Corinthians 10:1; Ephesians 4:1; Philemon 1:9, 10; Hebrews 13:22
- we beseech
- or, we request. exhort. or, beseech. by the.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:2; Ephesians 4:20; 2 Thessalonians 2:1; 1 Timothy 5:21; 1 Timothy 6:13, 14; 2 Timothy 4:1
- ye have
- 1 Thessalonians 4:11, 12; Acts 20:27; 1 Corinthians 11:23; 1 Corinthians 15:1; Philippians 1:27; Colossians 2:6; 2 Thessalonians 3:10–12
- ye ought
- 1 Thessalonians 2:12
- to please
- Romans 8:8; Romans 12:2; Ephesians 5:17; Colossians 1:10; Hebrews 11:6; Hebrews 13:16; 1 John 3:22
- so ye
- 1 Thessalonians 4:10; Job 17:9; Psalm 92:14; Proverbs 4:18; John 15:2; 1 Corinthians 15:58; Philippians 1:9; Philippians 3:14; 2 Thessalonians 1:3; 2 Peter 1:5–10; 2 Peter 3:18