Parallel Verses New International Version We remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. King James Bible Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father; Darby Bible Translation remembering unceasingly your work of faith, and labour of love, and enduring constancy of hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father; World English Bible remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father. Young's Literal Translation unceasingly remembering of you the work of the faith, and the labour of the love, and the endurance of the hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father, 1 Thessalonians 1:3 Parallel Commentary Clarke's Commentary on the BibleYour work of faith - This verse contains a very high character of the believers at Thessalonica. They had Faith, not speculative and indolent, but true, sound, and operative; their faith worked. They had Love, not that gazed at and became enamoured of the perfections of God, but such a love as labored with faith to fulfill the whole will of God. Faith worked; but love, because it can do more, did more, and therefore labored - worked energetically, to promote the glory of God and the salvation of men. They had Hope; not an idle, cold, heartless expectation of future good, from which they felt no excitement, and for which they could give no reason, but such a hope as produced a satisfying expectation of a future life and state of blessedness, the reality of which faith had descried, and love anticipated; a hope, not hasty and impatient to get out of the trials of life and possess the heavenly inheritance, but one that was as willing to endure hardships as to enjoy glory itself, when God might be most honored by this patient endurance. Faith worked, Love labored, and Hope endured patiently. It is not a mark of much grace to be longing to get to heaven because of the troubles and difficulties of the present life; they who love Christ are ever willing to suffer with him; and he may be as much glorified by patient suffering, as by the most active faith or laborious love. There are times in which, through affliction or other hinderances, we cannot do the will of God, but we can suffer it; and in such cases he seeks a heart that bears submissively, suffers patiently, and endures, as seeing him who is invisible, without repining or murmuring. This is as full a proof of Christian perfection as the most intense and ardent love. Meekness, gentleness, and long-suffering, are in our present state of more use to ourselves and others, and of more consequence in the sight of God, than all the ecstasies of the spirits of just men made perfect, and than all the raptures of an archangel. That Church or Christian society, the members of which manifest the work of faith, labor of love, and patience of hope, is most nearly allied to heaven, and is on the suburbs of glory. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Remembering. 2 Timothy 1:3-5 I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience... your. James 2:17-26 Even so faith, if it has not works, is dead, being alone... and labour. John 14:15,21-23 If you love me, keep my commandments... Romans 16:6 Greet Mary, who bestowed much labor on us. and patience. Romans 12:12 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer; Hebrews 6:15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. James 1:3,4 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith works patience... 1 John 3:3 And every man that has this hope in him purifies himself, even as he is pure. in the. Acts 3:19 Repent you therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out... 1 Timothy 2:3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior; 1 John 3:21 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. Library A Summary of Experience and a Body of DivinityIn those days there was a good deal of practical atheism abroad, and therefore the wonder was not so much that men left their idols, as that they turned unto the living God. It became a matter of talk all over the city, and the Jews in their violence helped to make the matter more notorious; for the mobs in the street and the attack upon the house of Jason all stirred the thousand tongues of rumour. Everybody spoke of the sudden appearance of three poor Jews, of their remarkable teaching in the synagogue, … Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 30: 1884 Of Love to God Cross References John 6:29 Jesus answered, "The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent." Romans 8:25 But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently. Romans 15:4 For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope. 1 Corinthians 13:13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. Galatians 1:4 who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, Galatians 5:6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love. 1 Thessalonians 3:6 But Timothy has just now come to us from you and has brought good news about your faith and love. He has told us that you always have pleasant memories of us and that you long to see us, just as we also long to see you. 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