12encouraging, comforting and urging you to live lives worthy of God, who calls you into his kingdom and glory.


In Context

9 Surely you remember, brothers, our toil and hardship; we worked night and day in order not to be a burden to anyone while we preached the gospel of God to you.

10 You are witnesses, and so is God, of how holy, righteous and blameless we were among you who believed.

11 For you know that we dealt with each of you as a father deals with his own children,

12 encouraging, comforting and urging you to live lives worthy of God, who calls you into his kingdom and glory.

13 And we also thank God continually because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is at work in you who believe.

14 For you, brothers, became imitators of God's churches in Judea, which are in Christ Jesus: You suffered from your own countrymen the same things those churches suffered from the Jews,

1st Thessalonians 2:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:12That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:12We testified to every one of you, that you would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:12to the end that ye should walk worthily of God, who calleth you into his own kingdom and glory.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:12that ye should walk worthy of God, who calls you to his own kingdom and glory.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:12to the end that ye should walk worthily of God, who calleth you into his own kingdom and glory.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:12That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you into his kingdom and glory.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:12to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:12for your walking worthily of God, who is calling you to His own reign and glory.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:12That you would walk worthy of God, who has called you to his kingdom and glory.