1 Thessalonians 2:1
For you yourselves, brothers, are conscious that our coming among you was not without effect:
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For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain:
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Psalms 73:13As for me, I have made my heart clean to no purpose, washing my hands in righteousness;
Isaiah 49:4And I said, I have undergone weariness for nothing, I have given my strength for no purpose or profit: but still the Lord will take up my cause, and my God will give me my reward.
Habakkuk 2:13See, is it not the pleasure of the Lord of armies that the peoples are working for the fire and using themselves up for nothing?
1 Corinthians 15:10But by the grace of God, I am what I am: and his grace which was given to me has not been for nothing; for I did more work than all of them; though not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
2 Corinthians 6:1We then, working together with God, make our request to you not to take the grace of God to no purpose.
Galatians 4:11I am in fear of you, that I may have been working for you to no purpose.
Matthew Henry on 1 Thessalonians 2:1
In this chapter the apostle puts the Thessalonians in mind of the manner of his preaching among them, ver. 1-6 . Then of the manner of his conversation among them, ver. 7-12 . Afterwards of the success of his ministry, with the effects both on himself and on them ( ver. 13-16 ), and then apologizes for his absence, ver. 17-20 . Read the whole commentary →