Surely it could not be. There was a real possibility the false teachers might succeed in convincing them that Paul really did not love them, and there was no reality to the salvation which Paul preached. Perhaps that's why Jesus said to make people his disciples (Matthew 28:19-20), and then to teach them to obey all he has commanded.
Verse 1 Thessalonians 3:5. _FOR THIS CAUSE_] Knowing that you would be persecuted, and knowing that your apostasy was possible, _I sent to know your_ _faith_-whether you continued steadfast in the tru...
FOR THIS CAUSE - Since I knew that you were so liable to be persecuted, and since I feared that some might be turned from the truth by this opposition. WHEN I COULD NO LONGER FORBEAR - See the notes...
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...
THE PASTOR AND HIS FLOCK (1 Thessalonians 3:1-10)...
FOR THIS CAUSE. On account of (App-104. 1 Thessalonians 3:2) this. KNOW. App-132. LEST, &C. Greek. _me pos._ HAVE. Omit. IN VAIN. See 1 Thessalonians 2:1, and compare...
_For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith_ Rather, I ALSO, NO LONGER ENDURING IT, SENT, &c. St Paul repeats what he said in 1 Thessalonians 3:1, but in a different man...
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...
ΤΗΝ ΥΜΩΝ ΠΙΣΤΙΝ (WH, _margin_), B 37 73 116: this (for Paul) unusual order (cf. e.g. 1 Thessalonians 3:2; 1 Thessalonians 3:6) may be original. On the other hand, 1 Thessalonians 3:7 m
§ 5. 1 Thessalonians 2:17 TO 1 Thessalonians 3:5. The Separation of the Apostles from their Converts After the pause for thanksgiving to God, which in its turn led up to the stern denunciation of Jewi...
ΔΙΆ ΤΟΎΤΟ (G1223; G3778) по этой причине, ΚΆΓΏ (G2504) я также (Morris). Может также значить "В самом деле я послал..." или "именно поэтому я послал..." (IBG, 167). ΣΤΈΓΩΝ _praes. act. part._ (причи...
TEXT (1 Thessalonians 3:5) 5 FOR THIS CAUSE I ALSO, WHEN I COULD NO LONGER FORBEAR, SENT THAT I MIGHT KNOW YOUR FAITH, LEST BY ANY MEANS THE TEMPTER HAD TEMPTED YOU, AND OUR LABOR SHOULD BE IN VAIN....
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. FOR THIS CAUSE - because I know your "tribula...
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 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...
FOR THIS CAUSE. — “Because I knew that temptation was sure to overtake you, I sent to see whether our work still lived, and was likely to live, in spite of it.” TO KNOW YOUR FAITH. — “To ascertain wh...
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 us...
Resuming the thought of 1 Thessalonians 3:1-3 _a_, after the parenthetical digression of 3 _b_, 4, but adding a fresh reason for the mission of Timothy, _viz._, the apostle's desire to have his person...
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 i...
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...
PAUL'S CONCERN FOR THEIR FAITH Because he had been forced to leave Thessalonica and prevented from returning, he reached a point where his concern for the church made him decide to be left in Athens a...
(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...
5_Lest perhaps the tempter has tempted you_. By this term he teaches us that temptations are always to be dreaded, because it is the proper office of Satan to _tempt_. As, however, he never ceases to...
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...
FOR THIS CAUSE, WHEN I COULD NO LONGER FORBEAR,.... Or "bear" the above vehement desire of seeing them, or of hearing from them. Here the apostle speaks in the singular number, and seems to intimate,...
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. Ver. 5. _To know your faith_] That is, your pers...
_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 TEMPTER; Satan. HAVE TEMPTED YOU; to deny Christ....
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 LABOR BE IN VAIN....
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 sent to help them, 3:1-5 1 WHEREFORE WHEN WE COULD NO LONGER FORBEAR, WE THOUGHT IT GOOD TO BE LEFT AT ATHENS ALONE; 2 And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellowlab...
“FOR THIS CAUSE. ALSO, WHEN. COULD NO LONGER FORBEAR, SENT THAT. MIGHT KNOW YOUR FAITH, LEST BY ANY MEANS THE TEMPTER HAD TEMPTED YOU, AND OUR LABOR SHOULD BE IN VAIN” “For this cause. also”: “There...
1-5 The more we find pleasure in the ways of God, the more we shall desire to persevere therein. The apostle's design was to establish and comfort the Thessalonians as to the object of their faith, t...
The apostle here gives a further account of the reason why he sent Timothy to them, which was TO KNOW their FAITH, whether it continued stedfast under all their sufferings and temptations. He feared S...
For this cause [because he feared that persecution might cause them to apostatize] _I also, when I could no longer forbear_ [resuming the thought of verse 1], _sent that I might know your faith, lest...
1 Thessalonians 3:5 this G5124 reason G1223 I G2504 could G4722 longer G3371 endure G4722 (G5723) sent G399
‘For this reason I also, when I could no longer forbear, sent that I might know your faith, lest by any means the tempter had tempted you and our labour should be in vain.' The change to the first per...
_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....
1 Thessalonians 3:5. FOR THIS CAUSE, _i.e._ on account of these afflictions which had fallen upon you....
THAT I MIGHT KNOW (εις το γνωνα). Paul's common idiom (verse 1 Thessalonians 3:2), εις το and the infinitive of purpose (second aorist ingressive active of γινωσκω, come to know).LEST BY ANY MEANS...
1 Thessalonians 3:1 I. The purpose of Timothy's mission to the Thessalonians was to establish, to make them steadfast in the midst of persecution, to make them rooted and grounded in love, to make the...
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 persecut...
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....
1 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 1 THESSALONIANS 3:5 TEMPTER. Satan tempted Jesus (Matthew 4:1) and he tempts Christians ...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 1 Thessalonians 3:3. THAT NO MAN SHOULD BE MOVED.—The word seems to imply “moved to softness,” as Professor Jowett intimates. It is used especially of the motion of a...
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 en...
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 7:5; 1 Thessalonians 2:1; 1 Thessalonians 3:1; 1 Thessalonians 3:2;...
The tempter [ο π ε ι ρ α ζ ω ν]. Only here and Matthew 4:3. LXX See on Matthew 6:13. In vain [ε ι ς κ ε ν ο ν]. The phrase only in Paul. See 2 Corinthians 6:1;...
Observe here, 1. One special end why St. Paul sent Timothy to Thessalonica, it was to know their faith, that is, their constancy in the faith; for he had. fear upon him lest Satan the tempter had take...