2 Thessalonians 1:4

² Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

³ We are obligated to thank God for you all the time, brothers, as is fitting, because your faith is growing more and more, and your love for one another is increasing.

That is why we boast among God’s churches about your perseverance and faith in the face of all the persecution and affliction you are enduring.

⁵ All this is clear evidence of God’s righteous judgment. And so you will be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering.

⁶ After all, it is only right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: That is why we boast among God’s churches about your perseverance and faith in the face of all the persecution and affliction you are enduring.
KJV: So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:
WEB: so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.
ASV: so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which ye endure;
DARBY: so that we ourselves make our boast in you in the assemblies of God for your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations, which ye are sustaining;
BLB: so as for us ourselves to boast in you⁺ in the churches of God for your⁺ endurance and faith in all your⁺ persecutions and in the tribulations that you⁺ are bearing,

ÅB: så vi selv roser oss av dere i Guds menigheter for deres tålmodighet og tro under alle deres forfølgelser og de trengsler som dere holder ut
OTB: Derfor taler vi høyt om dere blant Guds menigheter for deres utholdenhet og tro under alle deres forfølgelser og trengsler som dere utholder.
B1930: så vi selv roser oss av eder i Guds menigheter for eders tålmodighet og tro under alle eders forfølgelser og de trengsler som I holder ut

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

Hebrews 10:36
You need to persevere, so that after you have done the will of God, you will receive what He has promised.
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James 5:7–8
Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the soil—how patient he is for the fall and spring rains.
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Hebrews 12:1–3
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us.
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2 Corinthians 7:14
Indeed, I was not embarrassed by anything I had boasted to him about you. But just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus has proved to be true as well.
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1 Thessalonians 2:14
For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Judea that are in Christ Jesus. You suffered from your own countrymen the very things they suffered from the Jews,
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1 Thessalonians 2:19
After all, who is our hope, our joy, our crown of boasting, if it is not you yourselves in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His coming?
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1 Thessalonians 1:3
and continually recalling before our God and Father your work of faith, your labor of love, and your enduring hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
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1 Corinthians 7:17
Regardless, each one should lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him and to which God has called him. This is what I prescribe in all the churches.
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