While we may not always “feel” God’s love, the Bible reminds and reaffirms to us that God’s love is unfailing, unmovable, and unconditional. God’s love cannot be compared to human, relational love because there is no comparison. When you need a reminder that God’s love is a powerful presence in your life, here are five beautiful verses that serve as confirmation.
My love for you is unceasing
New International Version
We remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
New Living Translation
As we pray to our God and Father about you, we think of your faithful work, your loving deeds, and the enduring hope you have because of our Lord Jesus Christ.
English Standard Version
remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Berean Standard Bible
and continually recalling before our God and Father your work of faith, your labor of love, and your enduring hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Berean Literal Bible
remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and unceasing labor of love, and the endurance of the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ,
King James Bible
Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
New King James Version
remembering without ceasing your work of faith, labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of our God and Father,
New American Standard Bible
constantly keeping in mind your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father,
NASB 1995
constantly bearing in mind your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father,
NASB 1977
constantly bearing in mind your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father,
Legacy Standard Bible
remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ before our God and Father,
Amplified Bible
recalling unceasingly before our God and Father your work energized by faith, and your service motivated by love and unwavering hope in [the return of] our Lord Jesus Christ.
Christian Standard Bible
We recall, in the presence of our God and Father, your work produced by faith, your labor motivated by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Holman Christian Standard Bible
We recall, in the presence of our God and Father, your work of faith, labor of love, and endurance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ,
American Standard Version
remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And we recall before God The Father the works of your faith, the labor of your love and patience of your hope, which are in our Lord Yeshua The Messiah.
Contemporary English Version
we tell God our Father about your faith and loving work and about your firm hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Being mindful of the work of your faith, and labour, and charity, and of the enduring of the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before God and our Father:
English Revised Version
remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labour of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;
GOD’S WORD® Translation
In the presence of our God and Father, we never forget that your faith is active, your love is working hard, and your confidence in our Lord Jesus Christ is enduring.
Good News Translation
For we remember before our God and Father how you put your faith into practice, how your love made you work so hard, and how your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ is firm.
International Standard Version
In the presence of our God and Father, we constantly remember how your faith is active, your love is hard at work, and your hope in our Lord Jesus the Messiah is enduring.
Literal Standard Version
unceasingly remembering your work of faith, and the labor of the love, and the endurance of the hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father,
Majority Standard Bible
and continually recalling before our God and Father your work of faith, your labor of love, and your enduring hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
New American Bible
calling to mind your work of faith and labor of love and endurance in hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father,
NET Bible
because we recall in the presence of our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and endurance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
New Revised Standard Version
remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
New Heart English Bible
remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.
Webster’s Bible Translation
Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
Weymouth New Testament
For we never fail to remember your works of faith and labours of love and your persistent and unwavering hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father;
World English Bible
remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.
Young’s Literal Translation
unceasingly remembering of you the work of the faith, and the labour of the love, and the endurance of the hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father,
Audio Bible
Context
Greetings to the Thessalonians
… 2 We always thank God for all of you, remembering you in our prayers 3 and continually recalling before our God and Father your work of faith, your labor of love, and your enduring hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. 4 Brothers who are beloved by God, we know that He has chosen you,…
Cross References
John 6:29
Jesus replied, “The work of God is this: to believe in the One He has sent.”
Romans 8:25
But if we hope for what we do not yet see, we wait for it patiently.
Romans 15:4
For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.
1 Corinthians 13:13
And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
Galatians 1:4
who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
Galatians 5:6
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.
1 Thessalonians 3:6
But just now, Timothy has returned from his visit with the good news about your faith, your love, and the fond memories you have preserved, longing to see us just as we long to see you.
Treasury of Scripture
Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
1 Thessalonians 3:6 But now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you:
2 Timothy 1:3-5 I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day; …
1 Thessalonians 2:13,14 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe…
John 6:27-29 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed…
Romans 16:26 But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:
Genesis 29:20 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
Song of Solomon 8:7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
John 14:15,21-23 If ye love me, keep my commandments…
Romans 2:7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
Romans 5:3-5 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; …
Romans 8:24,25 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? …
Ecclesiastes 2:26 For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Acts 3:19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
Acts 10:31 And said, Cornelius, thy prayer is heard, and thine alms are had in remembrance in the sight of God.
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1 Thessalonians 1
(3) Faith . . . love . . . hope. –in this first of his writings, St. Paul has already fixed upon the three great abiding principles (1Corinthians 13:13) of the Christian life, and the forms in which they mainly exhibit themselves. The genitive in such phrases as “work of faith,” etc., is almost equivalent to a very emphatic adjective–“faithful activity,” i.e., a work characterised by faith and prompted by faith, such as faith alone could have enabled you to accomplish; so “labour of love” is similarly equivalent to “loving labour,” laborious toil undertaken for love’s sake, and done in the spirit of love; and “patience of hope” to “hopeful endurance of trials,” a steadfast endurance which is grounded upon and cheered by hope.
In our Lord. –More correctly, of The words in the Greek go with all three clauses: He is the object of the faith and love, as well as of the hope. This “hope of our Lord” includes, but is not limited to, the hope of His second Advent.
In the sight of God goes closely with “remembering,” and is equivalent to “in prayer.”
Verse 3. – Remembering without ceasing. Some attach the words, “without ceasing,” or “unceasingly,” to the previous clause; “making mention of you unceasingly in our prayers” (so Alford). Your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope. These expressions are not to be weakened, as if they were a mere Hebraism for active faith, laborious love, and patient hope. We have here the three cardinal virtues – faith, love, and hope (1 Corinthians 13:13). Elsewhere these graces are combined. Thus again in this Epistle: “Putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation” (1 Thessalonians 5:8); and in the Epistle to the Colossians: “Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all saints, for the hope which is laid up for you in heaven” (Colossians 1:4, 5). By the “work of faith” is not meant faith itself as the work of God (John 6:29), but that faith which is energetic, which is active and living, productive of good works. By the “labor, or toil, of love” is not meant that love which is devoted to God, but that love which manifests itself in acts of kindness toward our fellow-Christians and toward the human race. And by the “patience of hope” is meant that constancy which remains unconquered by trials and persecutions. There is a climax here; faith manifests itself by its works – its active exertion; love by its toils – its works of self-denial; and hope by its patience – its endurance amid trials and discouragements. “Remembering, the apostle would say, your faith, hope, and love: a faith that had its outward effect on your lives; a love that spent itself in the service of others; and a hope that was no mere transient feeling, but was content to wait for the things unseen, when Christ should be revealed” (Jowett). In our Lord Jesus Christ. These words do not refer to all three virtues (Hohnann), but only to the last, specifying its object, namely, that it is hope in the advent of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is hope s highest expectation, because at the advent the kingdom of Christ will come in its glory. In the sight of (or rather, before ) God and our Father. These words are to be conjoined with “remembering:” “remembering unceasingly before God and our Father your work of faith,” etc. According to the English idiom, the conjunction “and” is dropped – “God our Father.”
Greek
[and] continually
ἀδιαλείπτως (adialeiptōs)
Adverb
Strong’s 89: Unceasingly, without remission. Adverb from adialeiptos; uninterruptedly, i.e. Without omission.
recalling
μνημονεύοντες (mnēmoneuontes)
Verb – Present Participle Active – Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong’s 3421: From a derivative of mneme; to exercise memory, i.e. Recollect; by implication, to punish; also to rehearse.
before
ἔμπροσθεν (emprosthen)
Preposition
Strong’s 1715: From en and pros; in front of (literally or figuratively) or time).
our
ἡμῶν (hēmōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun – Genitive 1st Person Plural
Strong’s 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.
God
Θεοῦ (Theou)
Noun – Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong’s 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.
and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong’s 2532: And, even, also, namely.
Father
Πατρὸς (Patros)
Noun – Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong’s 3962: Father, (Heavenly) Father, ancestor, elder, senior. Apparently a primary word; a ‘father’.
your
ὑμῶν (hymōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun – Genitive 2nd Person Plural
Strong’s 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.
work
ἔργου (ergou)
Noun – Genitive Neuter Singular
Strong’s 2041: From a primary ergo; toil; by implication, an act.
of faith,
πίστεως (pisteōs)
Noun – Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong’s 4102: Faith, belief, trust, confidence; fidelity, faithfulness.
[your]
τοῦ (tou)
Article – Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong’s 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.
labor
κόπου (kopou)
Noun – Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong’s 2873: From kopto; a cut, i.e. toil, literally or figuratively; by implication, pains.
of love,
ἀγάπης (agapēs)
Noun – Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong’s 26: From agapao; love, i.e. Affection or benevolence; specially a love-feast.
and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong’s 2532: And, even, also, namely.
[your]
τῆς (tēs)
Article – Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong’s 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.
enduring
ὑπομονῆς (hypomonēs)
Noun – Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong’s 5281: Endurance, steadfastness, patient waiting for. From hupomeno; cheerful endurance, constancy.
hope
ἐλπίδος (elpidos)
Noun – Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong’s 1680: Hope, expectation, trust, confidence. From a primary elpo; expectation or confidence.
in
τοῦ (tou)
Article – Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong’s 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.
our
ἡμῶν (hēmōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun – Genitive 1st Person Plural
Strong’s 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.
Lord
Κυρίου (Kyriou)
Noun – Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong’s 2962: Lord, master, sir; the Lord. From kuros; supreme in authority, i.e. controller; by implication, Master.
Jesus
Ἰησοῦ (Iēsou)
Noun – Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong’s 2424: Of Hebrew origin; Jesus, the name of our Lord and two other Israelites.
Christ.
Χριστοῦ (Christou)
Noun – Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong’s 5547: Anointed One; the Messiah, the Christ. From chrio; Anointed One, i.e. The Messiah, an epithet of Jesus.
John 3:16
“For God so loved the world, that He gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16).
While John 3:16 may be a familiar verse for many Christians, it serves as a reminder that God’s love for us is so deep that He gave up his only son, Jesus, on the cross so that we may have new life. God’s love is sacrificial and beyond our human understanding. For those that confess and believe in God, His love continues throughout eternity.
The magnitude of God’s love for humanity is demonstrated by the selfless act of Jesus Christ to die for our sins. God’s love is an active presence in our lives and matures through varying seasons. God’s love is not moved by the storms of life and is a present help and comfort to us during the difficulties of life.
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Psalm 136:26
“Give thanks to the God of heaven. His love endures forever” (Psalm 136:26).
God’s love endures forever and that is great news today! Unlike human relational love that is temporal, seasonal and conditional, God’s love is eternal and steadfast. Beyond our human understanding and into eternity, God’s love endures. Despite the season you may be facing, I invite you to take comfort in the assurance that God’s love will cover, strengthen, and comfort you.
While it is easy for human love to fade and dissipate, God’s love sustains through every circumstance. God won’t leave us in our darkest moments; God’s love will strengthen us when we are weak. When life gets tough, God’s love doesn’t waver.
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Romans 5:8
“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8).
God’s love is not affected by or afraid of our mess. Despite our sin, God’s love motivated and instructed Christ to die for us. This is an amazing selfless love. God didn’t wait for humanity to get ourselves fully together before Christ died on the cross. In our messiness, Jesus still loves us.
God loves us so much that He wants us to live in freedom from the bondage of sin. There is no greater love for us demonstrated than Jesus dying on the cross. God’s love is unfailing and God embraces us continually, despite our sinful nature. We are reminded and strengthened by God’s reliable and relentless love.
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* I have already been practicing thinking of Jesus throughout the day with my aspirations “Jesus and Mary, I love you! Save souls!” It gives me peace. One of my sons and his fiancée even commented on it after having lunch with me a few weeks after starting this – they told me they thought I seemed so peaceful and calm. It was confirmation for me to stay on this path.
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