Recalling unceasingly before our God and Father your work energized by faith and service motivated by love and unwavering hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
We are assured and know that all things work together and are for good to and those who love God and are called according to His design and purpose.
For it is God Who is all the while at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure and delight.
Jesus answered and said to them, This is the work of God, that you believe in Him Whom He sent.
And I am convinced and sure of this very thing, that He Who began a good work in you will continue until the day of Jesus Christ, developing and perfecting and bringing it to full completion.
Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.
You will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God.
He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work.
so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody
It is God Who is at work in you both to will and to do His good pleasure.