1 Thessalonians 3:7

therefore we are comforted in you, my brethren, amid all our straits and afflictions, on account of your faith.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:

In Context

6But now, since Timothy hath come to us from among you, and hath informed us respecting your faith and your love, and that ye have a good remembrance of us at all times, and that ye desire to see us, even as we to see you;

8And now, we live, if ye stand fast in our Lord.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 4:9But I suppose, that God hath placed us legates the last, as for death; since we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men.

2 Corinthians 7:6But God who comforteth the depressed, comforted us by the arrival of Titus.

2 Corinthians 11:23If they are ministers of the Messiah, (in defect of understanding, I say it,) I am superior to them: in toils more than they, in stripes more than they, in bonds more than they, in deaths many times.

2 Timothy 3:10But thou hast followed after my doctrine, and my manner of life, and my aims, and my faith, and my long suffering, and my love, and my patience,

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 →

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