Sermon Text
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 English Standard Version (ESV)
Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
Supporting Texts
2 Corinthians 4:18 English Standard Version (ESV) as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
1 Thessalonians 1:3 English Standard Version (ESV) remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Thessalonians 5:8 English Standard Version (ESV) But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.
Colossians 1:4 English Standard Version (ESV) since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints,
1 Corinthians 15:58 English Standard Version (ESV) Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
Colossians 1:5 English Standard Version (ESV) because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel,
Philippians 1:6 English Standard Version (ESV) And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:14-15 English Standard Version (ESV) For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.
Romans 8:28 English Standard Version (ESV) And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
1 Corinthians 13:13 English Standard Version (ESV) So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.