1 Thessalonians 2:12
Good News Translation
We encouraged you, we comforted you, and we kept urging you to live the kind of life that pleases God, who calls you to share in his own Kingdom and glory.

New Revised Standard Version
urging and encouraging you and pleading that you lead a life worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.

Contemporary English Version
We begged, encouraged, and urged each of you to live in a way that would honor God. He is the one who chose you to share in his own kingdom and glory.

New American Bible
exhorting and encouraging you and insisting that you conduct yourselves as worthy of the God who calls you into his kingdom and glory.

Douay-Rheims Bible
We testified to every one of you that you would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

We testified to every one of you that you would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.

walk.

1 Thessalonians 4:1,12 For the rest therefore, brethren, pray and beseech you in the Lord Jesus that, as you have received from us, how you ought to walk and to please God, so also you would walk, that you may abound the more. . . .

Galatians 5:16 I say then: Walk in the spirit: and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.

Ephesians 4:1 I therefore, a prisoner in the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation in which you are called:

Ephesians 5:2,8 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us and hath delivered himself for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God for an odour of sweetness. . . .

Philippians 1:27 Only let your conversation be worthy of the gospel of Christ: that, whether I come and see you, or, being absent, may hear of you, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind labouring together for the faith of the gospel.

Colossians 1:10 That you may walk worthy of God, in all things pleasing; being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God:

Colossians 2:6 As therefore you have received Jesus Christ the Lord, walk ye in him:

1 Peter 1:15,16 But according to him that hath called you, who is holy, be you also in all manner of conversation holy: . . .

1 John 1:6,7 If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not the truth. . . .

1 John 2:6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked.

who.

1 Thessalonians 5:24 He is faithful who hath called you, who also will do it.

Romans 8:30 And whom he predestinated, them he also called. And whom he called, them he also justified. And whom he justified, them he also glorified.

Romans 9:23,24 That he might shew the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy which he hath prepared unto glory? . . .

1 Corinthians 1:9 God is faithful: by whom you are called unto the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

2 Thessalonians 1:11,12 Wherefore also we pray always for you: That our God would make you worthy of his vocation and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness and the work of faith in power: . . .

2 Thessalonians 2:13,14 0 . . .

2 Timothy 1:9 Who hath delivered us and called us by his holy calling, not according to our own works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the times of the world:

1 Peter 1:15 But according to him that hath called you, who is holy, be you also in all manner of conversation holy:

1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen generation, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people: that you may declare his virtues, who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

1 Peter 3:9 Not rendering evil for evil, nor railing for railing, but contrariwise, blessing: for unto this are you called, that you may inherit a blessing.

1 Peter 5:10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little, will himself perfect you and confirm you and establish you.

Context
Paul's Ministry
11As you know in what manner, entreating and comforting you (as a father doth his children), 12We testified to every one of you that you would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory. 13Therefore, we also give thanks to God without ceasing: because, that when you had received of us the word of the hearing of God, you received it not as the word of men, but (as it is indeed) the word of God, who worketh in you that have believed.…
Cross References
Genesis 5:22
And Henoch walked with God: and lived after he begot Mathusala, three hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

Romans 8:28
And we know that to them that love God all things work together unto good: to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints.

2 Corinthians 4:6
For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 4:1
I therefore, a prisoner in the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation in which you are called:

1 Thessalonians 5:24
He is faithful who hath called you, who also will do it.

2 Thessalonians 1:10
When he shall come to be glorified in his saints and to be made wonderful in all them who have believed; because our testimony was believed upon you in that day.

2 Thessalonians 2:13


2 Thessalonians 2:14
Whereunto also he hath called you by our gospel, unto the purchasing of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 5:10
But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little, will himself perfect you and confirm you and establish you.

2 Peter 1:3
As all things of his divine power which appertain to life and godliness are given us through the knowledge of him who hath called us by his own proper glory and virtue.

3 John 1:6
Who have given testimony to thy charity in the sight of the church. Whom thou shalt do well to bring forward on their way in a manner worthy of God:

1 Thessalonians 2:11
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