Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in 1 Thessalonians 5:13, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Mark 9:50
Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.
- Hebrews 12:14
Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
- Galatians 6:6
Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.
- 1 Corinthians 9:7
Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not …
- John 13:34
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
- James 3:18
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
- Ephesians 4:3
Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
- Psalms 133:1
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
- 1 Corinthians 4:1
Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
- Romans 4:17
(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those thing…
- Galatians 4:14
And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
- Genesis 45:24
So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way.
More to meet God in 1 Thessalonians
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.