1 Thessalonians 1:4
Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.
Context
This verse from 1 Thessalonians Chapter 1 connects to 10 cross-references. Paul's thanksgiving for the Thessalonian church: their work of faith, labor of love, and steadfastness of hope in the Lord Jesus Christ. They received the word in much affliction with the joy of the Holy Spirit and became an example …
Other Translations
knowing, brethren beloved of God, your election,
having known, brethren beloved, by God, your election,
Being conscious, my brothers, dear to God, that you have been marked out by God's purpose;
Cross References
To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God …
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the …
Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he …
As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, …
Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest …
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and …
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until …