1 Thessalonians 3:6

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Summary

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:

And brought

2 Corinthians 7:5

Faith

1 John 3:23

And that

Desiring

1 Thessalonians 3:9

1 Thessalonians 2:17

Philippians 1:8

General references

1 Corinthians 16:14

Bible References

And brought

for when I came to Macedonia, I had no respit from the trouble that beset me on every side: oppositions from without, and apprehensions within.

Faith

and now faith, hope, social virtue, these three will all remain; but the most permanent of the three is social virtue.

for in the christian-dispensation, neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision, but an active benevolent faith.

having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the affection you have to all christians;

We are oblig'd, my brethren, to render thanks to God continually upon your account, as it is but just; since your faith still improves, and your mutual love is always increasing.

such a charge will produce that charity, which arises from purity, from a good conscience, and a sincere belief:

and thank my God for the account I have of your faith in the Lord Jesus and the love you bear to all the saints;

now this is his commandment, that we believe in his son Jesus Christ, and that we love one another, as he commanded us.

And that

never forgetting the effects of your faith, your charitable offices, and the constancy of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ; of which God is our witness.

for you remember, my brethren, our labour and toil: how we worked day and night, that in preaching the gospel of God, we might not be chargeable to any of you.

now I commend you, brethren, for remembring all my orders, and for keeping the rules I delivered to you.

have received from the Lord. I Paul salute you, and this salutation I write with my own hand. remember my bonds. grace be with you. AMEN.

When I remember you, as I continually do in my prayers night and day, I give thanks to God, whom I serve with a pure conscience, after the example of my fore-fathers.

remember those that are in chains, as if you were confin'd with them; and those who suffer adversity, as being your selves of the same body.

Desiring

how can I be sufficiently thankful to God upon your account, for all the joy, which by your means we have been affected with,

As for me, my brethren, having been so abruptly separated from you, in person, tho' not in affection, I have the more ardently endeavour'd to see you again.

for God is my witness, that I love you with a christian tenderness.

General references

let all your transactions flow from social affections.