Colossians 1:4
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4 for we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you have for all the holy ones
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1 Thessalonians 1:3
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3 calling to mind your work of faith and labor of love and endurance in hope[a] of our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father,
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- 1:3 Faith…love…hope: this, along with 1 Thes 5:8, is the earliest mention in Christian literature of the three “theological virtues” (see 1 Cor 13:13). The order here stresses eschatological hope, in line with the letter’s emphasis on the Lord’s second, triumphal coming, or parousia (1 Thes 1:10; 2:12, 19; 3:13; 4:13–5:11; 5:23).
1 Thessalonians 5:8
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8 But since we are of the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love and the helmet that is hope for salvation.(A)
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