1 Thessalonians 3:7
on hearing this, we felt encouraged about you, friends, in the midst of all our difficulties and troubles, by your faith.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:
In Context
8For it is new life to us to know that you are holding fast to the Lord.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 4:9For, as it seems to me, God has exhibited us, the apostles, last of all, as people doomed to death. We are made a spectacle to the universe, both to angels and to people!
2 Corinthians 7:6But God, who encourages the downcast, has encouraged us by the arrival of Titus.
2 Corinthians 11:23Are they ‘Servants of Christ’? Though it is madness to talk like this, I am more so than they! I have had more of toil, more of imprisonment! I have been flogged times without number. I have been often at death’s door.
2 Timothy 3:10But you, Timothy, were a close observer of my teaching, my conduct, my purposes, my faith, my forbearance, my love, and my patient endurance,
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 →