1 Thessalonians 1:3 Part 2 of 2

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.

 

your labor prompted by love

2 Thessalonians 1:3  We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing.

1 Corinthians 13:13  And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Matthew 22:37-40  Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' (Deuteronomy 6:5) This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' (Leviticus 19:18) All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."

1 Corinthians 16:13-14  Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong. Do everything in love.

1 John 4:7-8  Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

1 John 4:10  This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 

1 John 4:15-16  If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.

and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ 

Romans 8:25  But if we have hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.

(parentheses are mine)

 

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