1 Thessalonians 3:7

for this reason in our distress and trouble we have been comforted about you, brethren, by your faith.

Weymouth NT (1912)

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 that Timothy has recently come back to us from you, and has brought us the happy tidings of your faith and love, and has told us how you still cherish a constant and affectionate recollection of us, and are longing to see us as we also long to see you--

8For now life is for us life indeed, since you are standing fast in the Lord.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 4:9God, it seems to me, has exhibited us Apostles last of all, as men condemned to death; for we have come to be a spectacle to all creation--alike to angels and to men.

2 Corinthians 7:6But He who comforts the depressed--even God-- comforted us by the coming of Titus, and not by his coming only,

2 Corinthians 11:23Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as if I were out of my mind.) Much more am I His servant; serving Him more thoroughly than they by my labours, and more thoroughly also by my imprisonments, by excessively cruel floggings, and with risk of life many a time.

2 Timothy 3:10But you have intimately known my teaching, life, aims, faith, patience, love, resignation,

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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