For what thanksgiving can we render again unto God for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God. [Paul felt that he could not be thankful enough for the joy which the faith of the Thessalonians gave him; not a joy arising from worldly or personal pride in them, but a joy so pure and holy that it could be displayed before the searching eye of God];
Verse 9. _WHAT THANKS CAN WE RENDER TO GOD_] The high satisfaction and uncommon joy which the apostle felt are strongly depicted in the language he uses. How near his heart did the success of his mini...
FOR WHAT THANKS CAN WE RENDER TO GOD AGAIN - That is, what expression of thanksgiving can we render to God that shall be an equivalent for the joy which your holy walk has furnished, or which will sui...
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. App-104. FOR. App-104. FOR YOUR SAKES. on account of (App-104. 1 Thessalonians 3:2) you....
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...
_For what thanks can we render to God again for you_ "Again" belongs to the verb "render;" and "thanks" is strictly "thanksgiving." So we may translate, more freely: WHAT DUE RETURN OF THANKSGIVING CA...
§ 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...
9. τῳ κυριῳ, instead of ΤΩ͂Ι ΘΕΩΙ, א* (also εμπροσθεν του κυριου later) D*G (the Gothic Version has _domino deo_, by conflation): an aberrant Western reading—perhaps determined by εν κυριῳ at the end...
ΕΎΧΑΡΙΣΤΊΑ (G2169) благодарение, благодарность. ΔΥΝΆΜΕΘΑ _praes. ind. pass. (dep.) от_ ΔΎΝΑΜΑΙ (G1410) быть способным, ΆΝΤΑΠΟΔΟΫ́ΝΑΙ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΆΝΤΑΠΟΔΊΔΩΜΙ (G467) возмещать, отдавать как...
DISCOURSE: 2199 A MINISTER’S JOY IN HIS PEOPLE 1 Thessalonians 3:9. _What thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God; night and day pray...
TEXT (1 Thessalonians 3:9) 9 FOR WHAT THANKSGIVING CAN WE RENDER AGAIN UNTO GOD FOR YOU, FOR ALL THE JOY WHEREWITH WE JOY FOR YOUR SAKES BEFORE OUR GODI Translation and Paraphrase 9. For what kind...
For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God; WHAT - what sufficient thanks? RENDER TO GOD AGAIN - in return for His goodnes...
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 WHAT THANKS CAN WE RENDER. — An apology for the enthusiastic expressions used in the three foregoing verses. “I may call it a gospel, a balm for all anxieties, a new life, for what mode of thanksg...
CHAPTER 8 LOVE AND PRAYERS 1 Thessalonians 3:6 (R.V.) THESE verses present no peculiar difficulty to the expositor. They illustrate the remark of Bengel that the First Epistle to the Thessalonians i...
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...
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 DESIRE TO THANK GOD FOR THEM Paul did not feel capable of expressing the depth of his thanksgiving for the joy those young converts had brought him. Of course, he knew thanksgiving is most appr...
(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...
_CHRISTIAN JOY_ ‘The joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God.’ 1 Thessalonians 3:9 St. Paul in this chapter is writing to the Thessalonians of the love and care he has for them, and of t...
9_For what thanksgiving_. Not satisfied with a simple affirmation, he intimates how extraordinary is the greatness of his joy, by asking himself _what thanks he can render to God; _for by speaking thu...
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 WHAT THANKS CAN WE RENDER TO GOD AGAIN OR YOU,.... They had given thanks to God for them before, for their faith, love, and patience; see 1 Thessalonians 1:2 and now having received a further acco...
For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God; Ver. 9. _For what thanks, &c._] _q.d._ No sufficient thanks. Spiritual joy vents it...
_What thanks can we render to God_ That is, what sufficient thanks; _for you_ On account of your perseverance; _for all the joy_ That I have thereby such unfeigned cause of rejoicing; so that the apos...
The apostle prays for their further establishment in faith and love:...
FOR WHAT THANKS CAN WE RENDER TO GOD AGAIN FOR YOU, FOR ALL THE JOY WHEREWITH WE JOY FOR YOUR SAKES BEFORE OUR GOD,...
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 WHAT THANKSGIVING CAN WE RENDER AGAIN UNTO GOD FOR YOU, FOR ALL THE JOY WHEREWITH WE JOY FOR YOUR SAKES BEFORE OUR GOD” “For what thanksgiving can we render again unto God for you”: “How can we...
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...
This is another effect of the message Timothy brought, it caused in the apostle great thanksgivings to God. First he rejoiced in their faith, and then gives thanks to God for that joy. The matter of h...
1 Thessalonians 3:9 For G1063 what G5101 thanks G2169 we G1410 (G5736) render G467 (G5629) God G2316 for
‘For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we joy for your sakes before our God, night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and perfect tha...
_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 3:9. FOR. Paul goes on to explain the intensity of feeling and life produced in him by the news he had heard. It was ‘joy' that flooded his soul with fresh life: a joy so abundant that...
RENDER AGAIN UNTO GOD (τω θεω ανταποδουνα). Second aorist active infinitive of double compound verb αντ-αποδιδωμ, to give back (απο) in return for (αντ). Old verb rare in N.T., but again in 2 Thess...
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 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....
NOW WE CAN GIVE THANKS. That is, how can we be thankful enough for our great spiritual joy which you have made possible by your faith!...
1 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 1 THESSALONIANS 3:9 WHAT IS LACKING IN YOUR FAITH. The missionaries had been unable to complete their usual instruction in the fundamentals of the faith....
_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 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 Thessalonians 1:2; 1 Thessalonians 1:3; 1 Thessalonians 2:19; 1 Thessalonians 3:7;...