1 Thessalonians 2:19
Good News Translation
After all, it is you--you, no less than others!--who are our hope, our joy, and our reason for boasting of our victory in the presence of our Lord Jesus when he comes.

New Revised Standard Version
For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you?

Contemporary English Version
After all, when the Lord Jesus appears, who else but you will give us hope and joy and be like a glorious crown for us?

New American Bible
For what is our hope or joy or crown to boast of in the presence of our Lord Jesus at his coming if not you yourselves?

Douay-Rheims Bible
For what is our hope or joy or crown of glory? Are not you, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For what is our hope or joy or crown of glory? Are not you, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?

our hope.

2 Corinthians 1:14 As also you have known us in part, that we are your glory: as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Philippians 2:16 Holding forth the word of life to my glory in the day of Christ: because I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain.

Philippians 4:1 Therefore my dearly beloved brethren and most desired, my joy and my crown: so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.

crown.

Proverbs 4:9 Hear, O my son, and receive my words, that years of life may be multiplied to thee.

Proverbs 12:4 The thoughts of the just are judgments: and the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.

Proverbs 16:13 Just lips are the delight of kings: he that speaketh right things shall be loved.

Proverbs 17:6 Children's children are the crown of old men: and the glory of children are their fathers.

Isaiah 62:3 And thou shalt be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.

1 Peter 5:4 And when the prince of pastors shall appear, you shall receive a never fading crown of glory.

Revelation 4:10,11 The four and twenty ancients fell down before him that sitteth on the throne and adored him that liveth for ever and ever and cast their crowns before the throne, saying: . . .

rejoicing.

1 Thessalonians 2:20 For you are our glory and joy.

Romans 15:16-19 That I should be the minister of Christ Jesus among the Gentiles: sanctifying the gospel of God, that the oblation of the Gentiles may be made acceptable and sanctified in the Holy Ghost. . . .

in.

1 Thessalonians 3:13 To confirm your hearts without blame, in holiness, before God and our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, with all his saints. Amen.

1 Thessalonians 5:23 And may the God of peace himself sanctify you in all things: that your whole spirit and soul and body may be preserved blameless in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 4:5 Therefore, judge not before the time: until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts. And then shall every man have praise from God.

1 Corinthians 15:23 But every one in his own order: the firstfruits, Christ: then they that are of Christ, who have believed in his coming.

2 Corinthians 1:14 As also you have known us in part, that we are your glory: as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Philippians 2:16 Holding forth the word of life to my glory in the day of Christ: because I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain.

Philippians 4:1 Therefore my dearly beloved brethren and most desired, my joy and my crown: so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.

2 Thessalonians 1:7-12 And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with the angels of his power: . . .

2 Thessalonians 2:1 And we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and of our gathering together unto him:

1 Timothy 6:14,15 That thou keep the commandment without spot, blameless, unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, . . .

2 Timothy 4:1,2 I charge thee, before God and Jesus Christ, who shall judge the living and the dead, by his coming and his kingdom: . . .

Titus 2:13 Looking for the blessed hope and coming of the glory of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.

1 John 2:28 And now, little children, abide in him, that when he shall appear we may have confidence and not be confounded by him at his coming.

our Lord.

Jude 1:24 Now to him who is able to preserve you without sin and to present you spotless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:

at.

Revelation 1:7 Behold, he cometh with the clouds, and every eye shall see him: and they also that pierced him. And all the tribes of the earth shall bewail themselves because of him. Even so. Amen.

Revelation 22:12 Behold, I come quickly: and my reward is with me, to render to every, man according to his works.

Context
Paul's Longing to Visit
18For we would have come unto you, I Paul indeed, once and again: but Satan hath hindered us. 19For what is our hope or joy or crown of glory? Are not you, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? 20For you are our glory and joy.…
Cross References
Isaiah 62:3
And thou shalt be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.

Matthew 16:27
For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels: and then will he render to every man according to his works.

Mark 8:38
For he that shall be ashamed of me and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation: the Son of man also will be ashamed of him, when he shall come in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

John 21:22
Jesus saith to him: So I will have him to remain till I come, what is it to thee? Follow thou me.

1 Corinthians 15:23
But every one in his own order: the firstfruits, Christ: then they that are of Christ, who have believed in his coming.

Philippians 4:1
Therefore my dearly beloved brethren and most desired, my joy and my crown: so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.

1 Thessalonians 3:13
To confirm your hearts without blame, in holiness, before God and our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, with all his saints. Amen.

1 Thessalonians 4:15
For this we say unto you in the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them who have slept.

1 Thessalonians 5:23
And may the God of peace himself sanctify you in all things: that your whole spirit and soul and body may be preserved blameless in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Thessalonians 1:4
So that we ourselves also glory in you in the churches of God, for your patience and faith, and in all your persecutions and tribulations: which you endure

2 Thessalonians 2:1
And we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and of our gathering together unto him:

James 5:7
Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth: patiently bearing till he receive the early and latter rain.

James 5:8
Be you therefore also patient and strengthen your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

2 Peter 1:16
For we have not by following artificial fables made known to you the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ: but we were eyewitnesses of his greatness.

2 Peter 3:4
Saying: Where is his promise or his coming? For since the time that the fathers slept, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

1 John 2:28
And now, little children, abide in him, that when he shall appear we may have confidence and not be confounded by him at his coming.

1 Thessalonians 2:18
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