1 Thessalonians 2:13

For this reason also I am giving continual thanks to God, because when you heard from me the spoken word of God, you received it not as the word of men, but as the word of God (which in truth it is), who himself is effectually at work in you believe.

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

In Context

12exhorting and imploring and adjuring each one among you to lead a life worthy of the God who called you into his own kingdom and glory.

14For you, brothers, began to follow the example of the churches of God in Judea, which are in Christ Jesus; and you in your turn suffered at the hands of your fellow citizens persecutions like to those which they endured from the Jews -

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Cross References

Matthew 10:20"For it will not be you who is speaking, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.

Luke 5:1On one occasion when he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, the crowd pressed upon him to listen to the word of God.

Luke 8:21"My mother and brothers," he answered, "are those who listen to the word of God and obey it."

John 15:3"Now you are clean through the word which I have spoken to you.

John 17:19"And for their sakes I dedicate myself, that they also may be thoroughly dedicated in the truth.

Matthew Henry on 1 Thessalonians 2:8-13

The Primitive Ministers. ( a. d. 51.) 7 But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children: 8 So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us. 9 For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God. 10 Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and… Read the whole commentary →

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