1 Thessalonians 2:12
1 Thessalonians chapter 2 · verse 12 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000to the end that ye should walk worthily of God, who calleth you into his own kingdom and glory.
KJV
King James Version · 1611That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901to the end that ye should walk worthily of God, who calleth you into his own kingdom and glory.
Context
v.11as ye know how we dealt with each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging you, and testifying,
v.12This passage
v.13And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when ye received from us the word of the message, even the word of God, ye accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also worketh in you that believe.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Romans 8:30
and whom he foreordained, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
- Romans 8:28
And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:24
Faithful is he that calleth you, who will also do it.
- 1 Peter 2:9
But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
- Ephesians 5:2
and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.
- 1 John 2:6
he that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked.