1 Thessalonians 3:5
For this cause when I coulde no lenger forbeare I sent that I myght have knowledge of youre fayth lest haply the tempter had tempted you and that oure laboure had bene bestowed in vayne.
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Acts 15:36But after a certayne space Paul sayde vnto Barnabas: Let vs goo agayne and visite oure brethren in every cite where we have shewed the worde of the Lorde and se how they do.
2 Corinthians 2:11lest Satan shuld prevet vs. For his thoughtes are not vnknowen vnto vs.
2 Corinthians 11:2For I am gelous over you with godly gelousy. For I coupled you to one man to make you a chaste virgen to Christ.
Galatians 1:6I marvayle that ye are so sone turned from him that called you in the grace of Christ vnto another gospell:
Galatians 4:11I am in feare of you lest I have bestowed on you laboure in vayne.
Matthew Henry on 1 Thessalonians 3:2-6
The Mission of Timothy. ( a. d. 51.) 1 Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone; 2 And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith: 3 That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto. 4 For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and… Read the whole commentary →