1 Thessalonians 1:2

We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers,

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;

In Context

1Paul and Sylvanus and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians, which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

3remembering unceasingly your work, which is the result of faith, your labor, the cause of which is love, and your patience, which springs from your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of our God and Father:

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Cross References

Romans 6:17But thanks be to God, that though you were the servants of sin, yet you have obeyed from the heart the form of teaching, in which you have been instructed;

Ephesians 1:15For this reason I also, since I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and your love to all the saints,

Colossians 1:3We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,

Matthew Henry on 1 Thessalonians 1:2

First Thessalonians Thessalonica was formerly the metropolis of Macedonia; it is now called Salonichi, and is the best peopled, and one of the best towns for commerce, in the Levant. The apostle Paul, being diverted from his design of going into the provinces of Asia, properly so called, and directed after an extraordinary manner to preach the gospel in Macedonia ( Acts xvi. 9, 10 ), in obedience to the call of God went from Troas to Samothracia, thence to Neapolis, and thence to Philippi, where he had good… Read the whole commentary →

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