Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
For what thankfulness can we return to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for you before our God;
New American Standard Bible
For
King James Version
For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;
Holman Bible
How can we thank God for you in return for all the joy
International Standard Version
How can we thank God enough for you in return for all the joy that we have in God's presence because of you?
A Conservative Version
For what thanks can we repay God about you, for all the joy in which we rejoiced because of you before our God,
American Standard Version
For what thanksgiving can we render again unto God for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;
Amplified
For what [adequate] thanks can we offer to God for you in return for all the joy and delight we have before our God on your account?
An Understandable Version
For how can we thank God [enough] for you, in return for all the joy we have over you, in the presence of our God?
Anderson New Testament
For what thanks can we render to God for you, for the great joy with which we rejoice on your account before our God,
Bible in Basic English
For how great is the praise which we give to God for you, and how great the joy with which we are glad because of you before our God;
Common New Testament
For what thanksgiving can we render to God for you in return for all the joy which we feel for your sake before our God,
Daniel Mace New Testament
how can I be sufficiently thankful to God upon your account, for all the joy, which by your means we have been affected with,
Darby Translation
For what thanksgiving can we render to God for you, for all the joy wherewith we rejoice on account of you before our God,
Godbey New Testament
For what thanks are we able to render unto God in your behalf, for all the joy with which we rejoice on account of you before our God;
Goodspeed New Testament
For how can I thank God enough for you, for all the happiness you make me feel in the presence of our God,
John Wesley New Testament
For what thanks can we render to God for you, for all the joy wherewith we rejoice for your sake before our God?
King James 2000
For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy with which we joy for your sakes before our God;
Lexham Expanded Bible
For what thanks can we repay to God concerning you, because of all the joy [with] which we rejoice because of you before our God,
Modern King James verseion
For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For what thanks can we recompense to God again for you, over all the joy that we joy for your sakes before our God,
Moffatt New Testament
How can I render thanks enough to God for you, for all the joy you make me feel in the presence of our God?
Montgomery New Testament
For what thanksgiving can I render again to God in your behalf, in return for all the joy which you cause me in the presence of my God?
NET Bible
For how can we thank God enough for you, for all the joy we feel because of you before our God?
New Heart English Bible
For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God;
Noyes New Testament
For what thanks can we render to God for you, for all the joy wherewith we rejoice for your sakes before our God;
Sawyer New Testament
For what thanksgiving can we render to God for you for all the joy with which we rejoice on your account before our God,
The Emphasized Bible
For what thanksgiving can we render back, unto God, concerning you, on occasion of all the joy wherewith we rejoice, for your sakes, before our God? -
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For what sufficient thanks can we render to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice on your account before our God,
Twentieth Century New Testament
How can we thank God enough for all the happiness that you are giving us in the sight of our God?
Webster
For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God;
Weymouth New Testament
For what thanksgiving on your behalf can we possibly offer to God in return for all the joy which fills our souls before our God for you,
Williams New Testament
For how can I render God enough thanks for you, for all the joy I have on account of you in the presence of our God,
World English Bible
For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God;
Worrell New Testament
For what thanksgiving can we render again to God concerning you for all the joy wherewith we rejoice on your account before our God;
Worsley New Testament
For what thanks can we render to God concerning you, for all the joy wherewith we rejoice on your account before our God,
Youngs Literal Translation
for what thanks are we able to recompense to God for you, for all the joy with which we do joy because of you in the presence of our God?
Themes
Joy » Ministers should » Have, in the faith and holiness of their people
Joy » Instances of » Of paul, rejoicing over his converts
Ministers » When faithful » Thank God for his gifts to their people
Ministers » When faithful » Rejoice in the faith and holiness of their people
Topics
Interlinear
Eucharistia
Peri
ἐπί
Epi
διά
Dia
on, in, upon, unto, to,
by, through, with, for, for ... sake, therefore , for this cause , because,
Usage: 644
Usage: 527
Pas
Hos
Dia
Emprosthen
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Thessalonians 3:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Timothy's Positive Report
8 For now we live, if ye stand in the Lord. 9 For what thankfulness can we return to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for you before our God; 10 Night and day praying exceedingly to see your face, and to adjust things wanting of your faith?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:2
Destroying, ye shall destroy all the places where the nations which ye possess them served there their Gods upon the high mountains, and upon the hills and under every green tree.
Deuteronomy 12:18
But before Jehovah thy God thou shalt eat it, in the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose in it, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy servant, and thy maid, and the Levite which is in thy gates: and rejoice thou before Jehovah thy God in all the stretching forth of thy hand.
Deuteronomy 16:11
And rejoice before Jehovah thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy servant, and thy maid, and the Levite that is in thy gates, and the stranger, and the orphan and the widow, which are in the midst of thee in the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.
2 Samuel 6:21
And David will say to Michal, Before Jehovah who chose in me above thy father and above all his house, to appoint me leader over the people of Jehovah, over Israel: and I played before Jehovah.
2 Samuel 7:18-20
And king David will come and sit before Jehovah, and say, Who am I Lord Jehovah? and who my house that thou broughtest me even to these?
Nehemiah 9:5
And the Levites, Joshua and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, Pethahiah, will say, Rise up, praise Jehovah your God from forever even to forever: and they shall praise the name of thy glory, exalting over all blessing and praise.
Psalm 68:3
And the just shall be glad; they shall rejoice before God, and they shall rejoice with gladness.
Psalm 71:14-15
And I will always hope, and I added upon all thy praise.
Psalm 96:12-13
The field shall exult and all that is in it: then shall all the trees of the, forest rejoice.
Psalm 98:8-9
The rivers shall clap the hand: the mountains shall rejoice together
2 Corinthians 2:14
Grace to God, always leading us to triumph in Christ, and making manifest the order of his knowledge by us in every place.
2 Corinthians 9:15
And grace to God for his indescribable gift.
1 Thessalonians 1:2-3
We return thanks to God always for you all, making remembrance of you in our prayers continually;
1 Thessalonians 2:19
For what our hope, or joy, or crown of boasting? Are not also ye before our Lord Jesus Christ in his arrival?
1 Thessalonians 3:7-8
For this, brethren, were we comforted in you in all our pressure, and necessity by your faith: