1 Thessalonians 2:8

Seeing that we were thus drawn affectionately towards you, it would have been a joy to us to have imparted to you not only God's Good News, but to have given our very lives also, because you had become very dear to us.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

7On the contrary, in our relations to you we showed ourselves as gentle as a mother is when she tenderly nurses her own children.

9For you remember, brethren, our labour and toil: how, working night and day so as not to become a burden to any one of you, we came and proclaimed among you God's Good News.

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Cross References

Luke 7:2Here the servant of a certain Captain, a man dear to his master, was ill and at the point of death;

Romans 1:11For I am longing to see you, in order to convey to you some spiritual help, so that you may be strengthened;

Romans 10:1Brethren, the longing of my heart, and my prayer to God, on behalf of my countrymen is for their salvation.

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.

2 Corinthians 12:15And as for me, most gladly will I spend all I have and be utterly spent for your salvation.

Philippians 1:8For God is my witness how I yearn over all of you with tender Christian affection.

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 →

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