1 Thessalonians 3:9
For what thanks would we be able to repay to God because of you, for all the joy with which we rejoice over you before our God?
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In Context
8For we now live so that you may stand firm in the Lord.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:18But you shall eat these before the Lord your God, in the place which the Lord your God will choose: you, and your son, and your daughter, and your man servant and woman servant, and the Levite who dwells in your cities. And you shall rejoice and be refreshed in the sight of the Lord your God by all the things to which you will extend your hand.
2 Samuel 6:21And David said to Michal: “Before the Lord, who chose me rather than your father, and rather than his entire house, and who commanded me, that I should be the leader over the people of the Lord in Israel,
2 Chronicles 31:8And when Hezekiah and his rulers had entered, they saw the stacks, and they blessed the Lord and the people of Israel.
Psalms 68:3I have become stuck in a deep quagmire, and there is no firm footing. I have arrived at the height of the sea, and a tempest has overwhelmed me.
Psalms 96:12Rejoice in the Lord, you just ones, and confess to the memory of his sanctuary.
2 Corinthians 2:14But thanks be to God, who always brings triumph to us in Christ Jesus, and who manifests the fragrance of his knowledge through us in every place.
Matthew Henry on 1 Thessalonians 3:7-11
The Mission of Timothy. ( a. d. 51.) 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 us, as we also to see you: 7 Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith: 8 For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord. 9 For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God; 10 Night and… Read the whole commentary →