What does 1 Thessalonians 3:7 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:"
Verse 7. _THEREFORE - WE WERE COMFORTED _] My afflictions and persecutions seemed trifles when I heard of your perseverance in the faith....
WE WERE COMFORTED OVER YOU - See the notes, 2Co 1:3-7; 2 Corinthians 7:6. The sense here is, that their steadfastness was a great source of comfort to him in his trials. It was an instance where the h...
III. AFFLICTIONS AND COMFORT CHAPTER 3 _ 1. Timotheus, Paul's messenger 1 Thessalonians 3:1)_ 2. His return with good tidings and the apostle's comfort and joy 1 Thessalonians 3:6) 3. This earnest...
THE MISSION OF TIMOTHY TO THESSALONICA. Paul's distress and anxiety with regard to the fate of the Church led him to send Timothy upon a mission of inquiry. He describes the effect produced upon him b...
So, when we could not stand it any longer, we made up our minds to be left all alone in Athens, and we sent Timothy our brother and God's servant in the good news of Christ, to strengthen you and enco...
THEREFORE. Same as "For this cause", 1 Thessalonians 3:5. OVER. App-104. IN. Same as "over". DISTRESS. necessity, as 1 Corinthians 7:26....
section iv St Paul's Present Relations to the Thessalonians. Ch. 1 Thessalonians 2:17 to 1 Thessalonians 3:13 The Apostle had been drawn aside in the last paragraph, by a sudden and characteristic b...
§ 6. 1 Thessalonians 3:6-13. The Good News brought by Timothy Timothy has just returned from Thessalonica; and his report is entirely reassuring (1 Thessalonians 3:6), so that it gives new life to Pau...
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TEXT (1 Thessalonians 3:7-8) 7 FOR THIS CAUSE, BRETHREN, WE WERE COMFORTED OVER YOU IN ALL OUR DISTRESS AND AFFLICTION THROUGH YOUR FAITH: 8 FOR NOW WE LIVE, IF YE STAND FAST IN THE LORD. Translatio...
Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith: OVER YOU, [ ef' (G1909) humin (G5213)] - in respect to you. It is a comfort to him who loves to he...
7 What figure could more touchingly convey the apostle's genuine affection for the Thessalonians than that of a nursing mother? How unselfish and gentle and self-sacrificing is her care! The soul is...
3:7 in (g-8) _ Epi_ with a dative. Here, and in 2 Corinthians 7:7 , the apostle states what gave occasion for comfort to him -- the circumstance, not the cause. It is a similar construction in ver. 9....
THE APOSTLE'S ANXIETY ABOUT HIS CONVERTS 1. Forbear] better, 'endure the suspense.'...
WHEN JESUS CHRIST COMES 1 THE THESSALONIANS _IAN MACKERVOY_ A word list is at the end. It explains words with a *star by them. CHAPTER 3 WHY THEY SENT TIMOTHY 3:1-5 V1 When we could wait no l...
IN ALL OUR AFFLICTION AND DISTRESS. — The words give no decisive indication whether the distress came from within or from without, and it is impossible to specify in what it consisted; but either way...
CHAPTER 7 ABSENCE AND LONGING 1 Thessalonians 2:17; 1 Thessalonians 3:1 (R.V.) THE Apostle has said all that he means to say of the opposition of the Jews to the gospel, and in the verses before u...
to 1 Thessalonians 3:13. Paul's _apologia pro absentia suâ_....
AWAKENING THANKSGIVING AND INTERCESSION 1 Thessalonians 3:1 At the outset observe that marginal reading by which Timothy is described as _a fellow-worker with God_. What a wonderful phrase, and yet...
The special purpose of the next movement in his letter was the strengthening of the Thessalonians in their sufferings. Their "work of faith" had brought them into a place of service which entailed suf...
ENCOURAGEMENT FOUND IN TIMOTHY'S REPORT Almost as soon as Timothy arrived, Paul had begun to write. The news was good because they remained strong in faith and love. Their love for Paul had caused th...
(5) For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain. (6) В¶ But now when Timotheus came from you u...
There is a special interest in examining the epistles to the Thessalonians, more particularly the first, because, in point of fact, it was the earliest of the letters of the apostles; and as the first...
Now this forced removal of the apostle as the chief labourer, without weakening the bond between him and the disciples, formed other links which would consolidate and strengthen the assembly, knitting...
THEREFORE, BRETHREN, WE WERE COMFORTED OVER, YOU,.... Or "in you", as the Vulgate Latin version; or "from you", as the Arabic; or "by you", as the Syriac; or "for you", as the Ethiopic; that is, on ac...
Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith: Ver. 7. _We were comforted_] Nothing so cheereth up the heart of a godly minister as his people's tra...
_For this cause_ The apostle proceeds to explain more fully what he began to speak of 1 Thessalonians 3:1; _when I could no longer forbear_ Or endure the state of anxious uncertainty I was in with reg...
The effect upon the apostle of Timothy's encouraging report:...
Paul had been driven by persecution from Thessalonica, then from Berea to Athens. Alone at Athens for a time (Acts 17:1), he sent word for Silas and Timothy to come to him with all speed (17:15). Evid...
Timothy's report, 3:6-10 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...
“FOR THIS CAUSE, BRETHREN, WE WERE COMFORTED OVER YOU IN ALL OUR DISTRESS AND AFFLICTION THROUGH YOUR FAITH” “For this cause”: The great news found in the previous verse. “WE WERE COMFORTED OVER YOU...
6-10 Thankfulness to God is very imperfect in the present state; but one great end of the ministry of the word is to help faith forward. That which was the instrument to obtain faith, is also the mean...
He was COMFORTED BY this FAITH of theirs IN ALL his own AFFLICTION AND DISTRESS. The faithfulness and constancy of a people is the great comfort of their teachers. I HAVE NO GREATER JOY THAN TO HEAR T...
for this cause, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith [Since Paul would be comforted as to the Thessalonians by the good news of their condition br...
1 Thessalonians 3:7 therefore G1223 G5124 brethren G80 in G1909 all G3956 our G2257 affliction G2347 and G2532 distress G318 comforted G3870 (G5681) concerning G1909 you G5213 by G1223 your G5216 fait...
‘But when Timothy came even now to us from you, and brought us the good news of your faith and love, and that you have good remembrance of us always, longing to see us as we also to see you, for this...
_Paul describes the Feelings he had towards the Thessalonians after he had left them._ This paragraph is remarkable chiefly as a manifestation of the ardent affection which Paul felt for his churches...
OVER YOU (εφ' υμιν). Επ with the locative, the basis on which the "comfort" rests.IN (επ). Locative case again with επ.DISTRESS (αναγκη).PHYSICAL NECESSITY , common sense in late Greek, choki...
1 Thessalonians 3:6 I. The Apostle now tells us that, on Timothy's return from his mission, bearing good tidings of the Thessalonian Church, he had been comforted. The new-born joy, the tender love of...
CONTENTS: The model Christian brotherhood. The sanctification of the believer. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Timothy. CONCLUSION: It is easy for the servant of Christ to bear afflictions or persecu...
1 Thessalonians 3:1. _Wherefore, when we could no longer forbear,_ seeing you were so oppressed with persecutions, we sent Timothy, and preferred being left agone without a fellow-labourer at Athens....
WE HAVE BEEN ENCOURAGED. He is filled with joy that they are faithful to Christ! (Compare 2 John 1:4.)...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 1 Thessalonians 3:8. FOR NOW WE LIVE, IF YE STAND FAST IN THE LORD.—The man who later could say, “For to me to live is Christ,” prepares us for that saying by this. L...
EXPOSITION CONTENTS.—The apostle, no longer able to repress his longing and anxiety for the Thessalonians, resolved to be left alone at Athens, and sent Timothy for the purpose of exhorting them to e...
WHEREFORE when we could no longer forbear, we thought it would be good to be left at Athens alone; And we sent Timothy, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellow laborer in the gospel of Christ...
1 Corinthians 4:9; 1 Thessalonians 3:8; 1 Thessalonians 3:9; 2 Corinthians 1:4; 2 Corinthians 11:23; 2 Corinthians 7:13; 2 Corinthians 7:6; 2 Corinthians 7:7;...
Affliction [α ν α γ κ η]. Rev. distress. The derivation from agxein to press tightly, to choke (Lightfoot, Ellicott) is doubtful. In the sense of urgency, distress, seldom in Class. See 1 Corinthians...
In these words our apostle declares the transcendant joy and overflowing comfort, which was found in his soul, upon the knowledge he had received of the constancy and stedfastness of the faith of thes...