1 Thessalonians 2:13
For this cause do we also give thanks to God unceasingly, because when ye received the word reported by us from God, ye received it not as the word of man, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which worketh also effectually in you that believe.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
12that ye should walk worthy of God, as calling you into his kingdom and glory.
Cross References
Matthew 10:20for it is not you who are speaking, but the Spirit of your Father which is speaking in you.
Luke 5:1AND it came to pass, as the multitude were thronging upon him, in order to hear the word of God, that he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret:
Luke 8:21Then he answered and said to them, My mother and my brethren are they, who hear the word of God, and practise it.
John 15:3Ye are already clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
John 17:19And for them I devote myself, that they also might be sanctified by the truth.
Matthew Henry on 1 Thessalonians 2:8-13
The Primitive Ministers. ( a. d. 51.) 7 But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children: 8 So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us. 9 For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God. 10 Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and… Read the whole commentary →