1 Thessalonians 2:12

WEB

¹²to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

KJV

¹²That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.

BSB

¹²encouraging you, comforting you, and urging you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.

FBV

¹²so that you could live as God would want you to live—the God who calls you to his own kingdom and glory.

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Extra References

Ephesians 4:1

¹I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

1 John 2:6

⁶he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

⁶If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie and don’t tell the truth. ⁷But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin.

2 Thessalonians 2:13-14

¹³But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth, ¹⁴to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 4:12

¹²that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

1 Peter 5:10

¹⁰But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

Ephesians 5:2

²Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

Ephesians 5:8

⁸For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

1 Thessalonians 5:24

²⁴He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.

2 Thessalonians 1:11-12

¹¹To this end we also pray always for you that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power, ¹²that the name of our Lord Jesus^[+] may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.