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1 Thessalonians 2:9
For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail; for laboring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the Gospel of God.
For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail; for laboring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the Gospel of God.
Verse 9. _YE REMEMBER - OUR LABOUR AND TRAVAIL_] From this it appears that St. Paul spent much more time at Thessalonica than is generally supposed; for the expressions in this verse denote a long co...
YE REMEMBER, BRETHREN, OUR LABOUR - Doubtless in the occupation of a tent-maker; Acts 20:34 note; 1 Corinthians 4:12 note. AND TRAVAIL - see the notes on...
II. TRUE SERVICE, AS MANIFESTED IN APOSTOLIC MINISTRY CHAPTER 2 _ 1. Apostolic conduct and service 1 Thessalonians 2:1)_ 2. Thanksgiving for the reception of the message and the opposition 1 Thess...
PAUL'S DEFENCE OF HIS MISSIONARY WORK. Paul had been charged by his opponents with being a wandering sophist making money out of his followers. He rebuts the charge and incidentally gives us a picture...
You yourselves know, brothers, that our coming among you was not to no effect; but after we had--as you know--already undergone suffering and ill-treatment at Philippi, we were bold in our God to tell...
PAUL ON HIS DEFENSE (1 Thessalonians 2:1-12)...
TRAVAIL. toil. Greek. _mochthos._ See 2 Corinthians 11:27. BECAUSE, &C. = with. view to (App-104) our not (App-105) being chargeable unto. Greek. _epibareo._ See 2 Corinthians 2:5. ANY. App-123. PR...
_For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail_ In ch. 1 Thessalonians 1:3 (see note) the Apostle spoke with thankfulness of his readers" "labour of love;" this laborious spirit they had learnt fr...
section ii The Apostle's Conduct at Thessalonica. Ch. 1 Thessalonians 2:1-12 _Analysis_. The ministry of Paul and his colleagues at Thessalonica had been unmistakably genuine, 1 Thessalonians 2:1. Th...
ΜΝΗΜΟΝΕΎΕΤΕ ΓΆΡ, ἈΔΕΛΦΟΊ. _For you call to mind, brothers_: for μνημονεύω with accus., cf. 2 Timothy 2:8; Matthew 16:9; Revelation 18:5; with the _genitive_ it has a less active sense, as in...
§ 3. 1 Thessalonians 2:1-12. The Conduct of the Apostles at Thessalonica The thanksgiving just offered to God for the conspicuous Christian worth of the Thessalonians reflects upon _the work of the wr...
ΜΝΗΜΟΝΕΎΕΤΕ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΜΝΗΜΟΝΕΎΩ (G3421) помнить, ΚΌΠΟΣ (G2873) утомительный труд (_см._ 1 Thessalonians 1:3). ΜΌΧΘΟΣ (G3449) тяжелый труд. Это слово обозначает боль и проблемы, связанн...
FOR, LABOURING NIGHT AND DAY, &C.— What an instance of goodness and benevolence to mankind! to labour for bread with his own hands, while he spent his time in teaching all who would learn truths of th...
TEXT (1 Thessalonians 2:9) 9 FOR YE REMEMBER, BRETHREN, OUR LABOR AND TRAVAIL: WORKING NIGHT AND DAY, THAT WE MIGHT NOT BURDEN ANY OF YOU, WE PREACHED UNTO YOU THE GOSPEL OF GOD. Translation and Par...
For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God. LABOUR AND TRAVAIL, [ kop...
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...
THE NATURE OF ST. PAUL'S LIFE AND WORK AT THESSALONICA 2. The persecution at the Roman garrison-town of Philippi made a deep impression on St. Paul the Roman citizen (Acts 16:19; Philippians 1:30). I...
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 2 HOW PAUL AND HIS FRIENDS CAME TO THESSALONICA 2:1-4 V1...
FOR. — As in 1 Thessalonians 2:1, the general principles of the foregoing verses are supported by facts which the Thessalonians will remember. If the word attaches itself to any particular phrase, it...
CHAPTER 5 _ APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA_ 1 Thessalonians 2:1 (R.V.) OUR first impression, as we read these verses, is that they contain little that is new. They simply expand the statement of chap. 1, ver...
“Paul means by the phrase, _night and day_, that he started work before dawn; the usage is regular and frequent. He no doubt began so early in order to be able to devote some part of the day to preach...
An _apologia pro vita et labors suo_....
THE FRUIT OF UNSPARING LABOR 1 Thessalonians 2:1 Paul preached in great conflict of soul because of his passionate desire for the salvation of men. In this, many of the notable servants of God have s...
It is evident that some of the Jews in Thessalonica had been discounting the apostle in his absence. He very definitely defends himself against such detraction, asserting that his preaching had been w...
THEY WITNESSED PAUL'S LOVE AND BEHAVIOR Paul's love for them was so intense that he was ready to pour out his very life for them in the preaching of the gospel. One who preaches the gospel with the ri...
(7) For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God. (7) To let go of his ow...
(1) В¶ For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain: (2) But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were...
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...
9_For ye remember_. These things tend to confirm what he had stated previously — that to spare them he did not spare himself. He must assuredly have burned with a wonderful and more than human zeal, i...
Having established these great principles, the apostle, with an open and overflowing heart, appeals to his whole walk among them as a proof of his having walked in the same spirit as in their own case...
FOR YE REMEMBER BRETHREN, OUR LABOUR AND TRAVAIL,.... The great pains they took, even to weariness. The Vulgate Latin version renders the last word, "weariness"; and the Arabic version, "anxiety"; and...
For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God. Ver. 9. _Our labour_] Even...
_Ye remember, brethren, our labour_ In the ministerial work; _and travail_ Μοχθον, _toil_, in our secular employment; _for labouring night and day_, &c. It seems they often took from the rest of the n...
TRAVAIL; hard and wearisome toil. LABORING; the reference is to manual labor to obtain the means of support....
We are to consider now that which had great effect in producing the energetic, devoted response to the gospel such as we have seen in the Thessalonians. Certainly it is the Word of God itself that is...
B. The proper conduct in daily living, 2:5-12 5 FOR NEITHER AT ANY TIME USED WE FLATTERING WORDS, AS YE KNOW, NOR A CLOKE OF COVETOUSNESS; GOD [IS] WITNESS: 6 Nor of men sought we glory, neither of...
“FOR YE REMEMBER, BRETHREN, OUR LABOR AND TRAVAIL: WORKING NIGHT AND DAY, THAT WE MIGHT NOT BURDEN ANY OF YOU, WE PREACHED UNTO YOU THE GOSPEL OF GOD” “For ye remember”: Again the Thessalonians could...
7-12 Mildness and tenderness greatly recommend religion, and are most conformable to God's gracious dealing with sinners, in and by the gospel. This is the way to win people. We should not only be fa...
To make good what he had asserted before about their integrity in preaching the gospel, that it was without covetousness, and vain-glory, &c., and about their great affection to them therein, he appea...
For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail: working night and day [the Hebrew order-- Genesis 1:5], _that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God_. [The apostle wa...
1 Thessalonians 2:9 For G1063 remember G3421 (G5719) brethren G80 our G2257 labor G2873 and G2532 toil G3449
‘Even so being affectionately desirous of you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own inner selves, because you had become very dear to us. For you reme...
1 Thessalonians 2:9. TOIL AND TRAVAIL. These words, and the expression ‘night and day,' are intended to bring out strongly the very hard and exhausting labour in which Paul was involved by his desire...
_Paul appeals to the Thessalonians themselves as able to testify to his Boldness, Straightforwardness, and Disinterestedness, while resident among them._ In chap. 1 Thessalonians 1:9 Paul had alluded...
TRAVAIL (μοχθον). Old word for difficult labour, harder than κοπος (toil). In the N.T. only here, 2 Thessalonians 3:8; 2 Corinthians 11:27. Note accusative case here though genitive with μνημονευω i...
1 Thessalonians 2:5 The Apostle is very careful in describing the relation in which his ministry stood to the Thessalonians, to defend himself against all false charges, all insinuations or suspicions...
CONTENTS: The model servant and his reward. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Satan. CONCLUSION: It is the great comfort of the servants of Christ to have their own conscience and the consciences of oth...
VERSE. 1-3. _Ye know our entrance into_ Thessalonica _our exhortation was not of deceit,_ or error to lead astray the simple, _nor of uncleanness, nor in guile,_ as is the character of the judaizing t...
WE WORKED DAY AND NIGHT. He worked with his own hands at a trade, to pay his own way, so that no one could accuse him of having money for a motive when he proclaimed the Good News. [But at other times...
1 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 1 THESSALONIANS 2:1 Paul expands on what he said in summary form in 1 Thessalonians 1:5: while they were in Thessalonica, he and his fellow missionari
1 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 1 THESSALONIANS 2:9 Paul’s love was shown by his long hours of manual LABOR. He worked hard to pay his own expenses rather than depend on the Thessalonian believers for support...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 1 Thessalonians 2:9. LABOUR AND TRAVAIL.—The same words occur together at 2 Corinthians 11:27. The former is used some twenty times, the latter only three in the New T...
EXPOSITION CONTENTS.—Paul turns from the reports of others to the experience of the readers. They themselves knew that his entrance was not powerless; although maltreated in Philippi, he was emboldene...
FOR yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain (1 Thessalonians 2:1): Now, Paul evidently had quite an entrance to the city of Thessalonica for he makes reference to...
1 Corinthians 4:12; 1 Corinthians 9:15; 1 Corinthians 9:18; 1 Corinthians 9:6;...
Labor - travail [κ ο π ο ν - μ ο χ θ ο ν]. The two words are associated in 2 Corinthians 11:27; 2 Thessalonians 3:8. Mocqov travail, P o. Frequent in LXX Kopov emphasises fatigue, mocqov hardship. Be...
THE HEART LIFE OF THE APOSTLE PAUL 1 Thessalonians 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The opening verse of this remarkable chapter brings reminiscences of Paul's entrance into Thessalonica. This should be stud...
Notwithstanding our apostle was free, wholly free, from all shadow and appearance of covetousness in the whole course of his ministry, yet it may seem as if some persons (probably the false apostles)...