Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
1 Thessalonians 3:8
Verse 8. For now we live] Your steadfastness in the faith gives me new life and comfort; I now feel that I live to some purpose, as my labour in the Lord is not in vain.
Verse 8. For now we live] Your steadfastness in the faith gives me new life and comfort; I now feel that I live to some purpose, as my labour in the Lord is not in vain.
FOR NOW WE LIVE, IF YE STAND FAST IN THE LORD - This is equivalent to saying, “My life and comfort depend on your stability in the faith, and your correct Christian walk;” compare Martial 6:70. Non es...
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)...
LIVE. See App-170. IF. App-118. STAND FAST. Greek. _steko._ See Philippians 1:4; Philippians 1:1. LORD. App-98....
_for now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord_ "if _ye_stand fast:" the pronoun bears the emphasis. St Paul felt as though his life was wrapped up in this Church. A load of apprehension was lifted fr...
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...
ΣΤΗΚΕΤΕ, rather than -ητε: all uncials except א*D, and many good minn. See Expository Note. 8. ὍΤΙ ΝΥ͂Ν ΖΩ͂ΜΕΝ ἘᾺΝ ὙΜΕΙ͂Σ ΣΤἩΚΕΤΕ ἘΝ ΚΥΡΊΩΙ. _For now we live, if you are standing fast in the Lord_. Νῦ...
§ 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...
ΖΏΜΕΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΖΆΩ (G2198) жить; "мы живем все-таки" то есть несмотря на расстройства и огорчения (Lightfoot, Notes), ΣΤΉΚΕΤΕ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΣΤΉΚΩ (***) стоять, стоять на своем, т...
DISCOURSE: 2198 THE PEOPLE’S STABILITY IS THE MINISTER’S COMFORT 1 Thessalonians 3:8. _Now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord_. THERE is nothing that more strongly characterizes a faithful ministr...
FOR NOW WE LIVE, IF, &C.— "For now I live, indeed; I relish and enjoy life, _seeing you continue steadfast_ in the profession, faith, and practice of the Christian religion, in which, through the favo...
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...
For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord. NOW - as the case is; seeing ye stand fast. WE LIVE - we flourish. It revives us in affliction to hear of your stedfastness (; 3 John 1:3). IF. Th...
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.'...
WE LIVE] it puts new life in us. IF YE STAND FAST] better, 'if only ye stand fast.' The Gk. expresses some doubt and anxiety....
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...
NOW WE LIVE, IF. — “Now” contrasts the new life and vigour which the “gospel of their faith and charity” had infused into the Apostle, with the deadly sinking he had felt at the thought of their possi...
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...
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...
to 1 Thessalonians 3:13. Paul's _apologia pro absentia suâ_....
The news put life and spirit into him. στήκετε, for construction _cf._ Mark 11:25 and Abbott's _Johan. Gramm._, 2515 (i)....
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...
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 the...
For now we (a) live, if ye stand fast in the Lord. (a) For now you cannot otherwise think of me as at rest and in a good state of being, unless you go forward in religion and faith....
_We live. That is, we live in joy and comfort, if you stand firm in the faith of Christ, as you ought. (Witham) --- The news that you stand steadfast in the Lord, reanimates me under all my sufferings...
(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...
8_For now we live_. Here it appears still more clearly that Paul almost forgot himself for the sake of the Thessalonians, or, at least, making regard for himself a mere secondary consideration, devote...
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 NOW WE LIVE,.... Before they were dead men, lifeless, disconsolate, dispirited, carrying about with them the dying of the Lord Jesus, and death working in them, and they, as it were, under the sen...
For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord. Ver. 8. _For now we live_] A joyless life is a lifeless life. An unsuccessful pastor hath little or no joy in his life. "Thus shall ye say to him that l...
_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...
WE LIVE; our life is bound up in your spiritual welfare. To hear of this fills us with joy. Compare chap 1 Thessalonians 2:19-20. When Christians are steadfast and persevering in the faith and practic...
The effect upon the apostle of Timothy's encouraging report:...
FOR NOW WE LIVE, IF YE STAND FAST IN THE LORD. The apostle here resumes the thought of 1 Thessalonians 3:1, referring again to his constant anxiety in their behalf: On this account I also, when I coul...
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 NOW WE LIVE, IF YE STAND FAST IN THE LORD” “For now we live”: “Now. am really living” (Mon). “It brings to us renewed life” (Nor). “He had reached Corinth alone without friends or funds. Around...
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...
The comfort of their faith was so great that it would be as life to him, if they stood fast in it; which he calls a standing FAST IN THE LORD. Life is not only the union of soul and body; comfort is t...
for now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord. [The good news made Paul relish and enjoy life, just as his afflictions and distress had been to him a kind of death. Comp. 1 Corinthians 15:31]...
1 Thessalonians 3:8 For G3754 now G3568 live G2198 (G5719) if G1437 you G5210 fast G4739 (G5725) in...
‘For now we live if you stand firm in the Lord.' ‘Now we are alive.' This use of the word live emphasises the great burden under which Paul had suffered. He had felt dead and discouraged, but now he h...
_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 3:8. FOR NOW. ‘ _Now_ refers to the change of feeling occasioned by the arrival of Timothy' (Jowett). It is equivalent to _in these circumstances, in this condition of things,_ that is...
IF YE STAND FAST (εαν υμεις στηκετε). Condition of first class, εαν and present active indicative (correct text, not στηκητε subj.) of στηκω, late form from perfect εστηκα of ιστημ, to place....
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....
BECAUSE NOW WE REALLY LIVE. This "good news" about their faith has given him "new life!" IF YOU STAND FIRM. This is really his confidence speaking, convinced they will go all the way with Christ....
_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 Corinthians 15:58; 1 Corinthians 16:13; 1 Peter 5:10; 1 Samuel 25:6;...
Stand fast [σ τ η κ ε τ ε]. The sense of firm standing is derived from the context, and does not inhere in the word. In Mark 3:31; Mark 11:25, it means simply to stand. Comp. Philippians 4:1. It does...
Now we live — Indeed; we enjoy life: so great is our affection for you....