New Testament · SCRIPTURE
1 Thessalonians 2:12
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encouraging you, comforting you, and urging you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.
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That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
KJV text & permissions
to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.
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ASVAmerican Standard Version
to the end that ye should walk worthily of God, who calleth you into his own kingdom and glory.
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[we] were exhorting and comforting you⁺ and charging unto you⁺ to walk worthily of God, the [One] calling you⁺ into His own kingdom and glory.
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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB
1 Thessalonians 2
10 You are witnesses, and so is God, of how holy, righteous, and blameless our conduct was among you who believed.
11 For you know that we treated each of you as a father treats his own children—
12 encouraging you, comforting you, and urging you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.
13 And we continually thank God because, when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God, which is also now at work in you who believe.
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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