1 Thessalonians 2:1
For you yourselves, brethren, know that our visit to you did not fail of its purpose.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain:
In Context
Cross References
1 Corinthians 15:10But what I am I am by the grace of God, and His grace bestowed upon me did not prove ineffectual. But I labored more strenuously than all the rest--yet it was not I, but God's grace working with me.
2 Corinthians 6:1And you also we, as God's fellow workers, entreat not to be found to have received His grace to no purpose.
Galatians 4:11I am alarmed about you, and am afraid that I have perhaps bestowed labour upon you to no purpose.
Matthew Henry on 1 Thessalonians 2:1
In this chapter the apostle puts the Thessalonians in mind of the manner of his preaching among them, ver. 1-6 . Then of the manner of his conversation among them, ver. 7-12 . Afterwards of the success of his ministry, with the effects both on himself and on them ( ver. 13-16 ), and then apologizes for his absence, ver. 17-20 . Read the whole commentary →