1 Thessalonians 2:1
For you yourselves know, brothers, that our acceptance among you was not empty.
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In The King James Version
For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain:
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Psalms 73:13In your virtue, you confirmed the sea. You crushed the heads of the serpents in the waters.
Isaiah 49:4And I said: “I have labored toward emptiness. I have consumed my strength without purpose and in vain. Therefore, my judgment is with the Lord, and my work is with my God.”
Habakkuk 2:13Are not these things before the Lord of hosts? For the people will labor amid a great fire, and the nations will labor in emptiness, and they will fail.
1 Corinthians 15:10But, by the grace of God, I am what I am. And his grace in me has not been empty, since I have labored more abundantly than all of them. Yet it is not I, but the grace of God within me.
2 Corinthians 6:1But, as a help to you, we exhort you not to receive the grace of God in vain.
Galatians 4:11I am afraid for you, lest perhaps I may have labored in vain among you.
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 →