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2 Thessalonians 1:4

so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Faith;   God Continued...;   Love;   Meekness;   Patience;   Paul;   Persecution;   Resignation;   Righteousness;   Suffering;   Thompson Chain Reference - Patience;   Patience-Impatience;   The Topic Concordance - Suffering;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Afflicted Saints;   Patience;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Endurance;   Judgment;   Patience;   Persecution;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Perseverance;   Suffering;   Thankfulness, Thanksgiving;   Thessalonians, First and Second, Theology of;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Destructionists;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Thessalonians, the Epistles to the;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Persecution in the Bible;   Steadfastness;   2 Thessalonians;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Paul the Apostle;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Boasting;   Discipline;   Patience;   Perseverance;   Thessalonians Epistles to the;   Tribulation;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Pauline Theology;   Persecution;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
So we tell the other churches of God how proud we are of you. We tell them how you patiently continue to be strong and have faith, even though you are being persecuted and are suffering many troubles.
Revised Standard Version
Therefore we ourselves boast of you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you are enduring.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
so yt we oureselves reioyce of you in the congregacions of God over youre pacience and fayth in all youre persecucions and tribulacios that ye suffre
Hebrew Names Version
so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.
New American Standard Bible
As a result, we ourselves speak proudly of you among the churches of God for your perseverance and faith in the midst of all your persecutions and afflictions which you endure.
New Century Version
So we brag about you to the other churches of God. We tell them about the way you continue to be strong and have faith even though you are being treated badly and are suffering many troubles.
Update Bible Version
so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure;
Webster's Bible Translation
So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God, for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:
English Standard Version
Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
So that we ourselves glory of you in the churches of God, for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and sufferings which ye endure:
Weymouth's New Testament
It so increases that we ourselves make honourable mention of you among the Churches of God because of your patience and faith amid all your persecutions and amid the afflictions which you are enduring.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
So that we silf glorien in you in the chirchis of God, for youre pacience and feith in alle youre persecuciouns and tribulaciouns.
English Revised Version
so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which ye endure;
Berean Standard Bible
That is why we boast among God's churches about your perseverance and faith in the face of all the persecution and affliction you are enduring.
Contemporary English Version
That's why we brag about you to all of God's churches. We tell them how patient you are and how you keep on having faith, even though you are going through a lot of trouble and suffering.
Amplified Bible
Therefore, we speak of you with pride among the churches of God for your steadfastness [your unflinching endurance, and patience] and your firm faith in the midst of all the persecution and [crushing] distress which you endure.
American Standard Version
so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which ye endure;
Bible in Basic English
So that we ourselves take pride in you in the churches of God for your untroubled mind and your faith in all the troubles and sorrows which you are going through;
Complete Jewish Bible
Therefore, we boast about you in the congregations of God because of your perseverance and trust in all the persecutions and troubles you are going through.
Darby Translation
so that we ourselves make our boast in you in the assemblies of God for your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations, which ye are sustaining;
International Standard Version
As a result, we boast about you among God's churches - about your endurance and faith through all the persecutions and afflictions you are experiencing.2 Corinthians 7:14; 9:2; 1 Thessalonians 1:3;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
as that we also boast of you in the churches of Aloha, of your faith and of your patience, in all your persecution and your affliction which you endure;
Murdock Translation
Insomuch that we also boast of you in the churches of God, on account of your faith, and your patience in all the persecution and trials that ye endure;
King James Version (1611)
So that wee our selues glorie in you in the Churches of God, for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that yee endure.
New Living Translation
We proudly tell God's other churches about your endurance and faithfulness in all the persecutions and hardships you are suffering.
New Life Bible
We are proud of you and tell the other churches about you. We tell them how your faith stays so strong even when people make it hard for you and make you suffer.
New Revised Standard
Therefore we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith during all your persecutions and the afflictions that you are enduring.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So that we our selues reioyce of you in the Churches of God, because of your patience & faith in al your persecutions & tribulatios that ye suffer,
George Lamsa Translation
So that even we ourselves boast of you in the churches of God over your faith and patience in all your persecutions and tribulations that you endure;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So that, we ourselves, in you, are boasting, in the assemblies of God, over your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations which ye are sustaining: -
Douay-Rheims Bible
So that we ourselves also glory in you in the churches of God, for your patience and faith, and in all your persecutions and tribulations: which you endure
Bishop's Bible (1568)
So that we our selues reioyce in you in the Churches of God, ouer your pacience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye suffer,
Good News Translation
That is why we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God. We boast about the way you continue to endure and believe through all the persecutions and sufferings you are experiencing.
Christian Standard Bible®
Therefore, we ourselves boast about you among God’s churches—about your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and afflictions that you are enduring.
King James Version
So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:
Lexham English Bible
so that we ourselves boast in you in the churches of God about your patient endurance and faith in all your persecutions and the afflictions that you are enduring,
Literal Translation
so as for us to boast ourselves in you in the assemblies of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions, and the afflictions which you endure,
Young's Literal Translation
so that we ourselves do glory in you in the assemblies of God, for your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye bear;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
so that we oure selues make oure boast of you (in the congregacions of God) of youre paciece and faith in all youre persecucions and troubles that ye suffre,
Mace New Testament (1729)
so that you are the subject of our glorying in the churches of God, for the constancy of your faith, under all the persecutions and afflictions you endure from men,
New English Translation
As a result we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and afflictions you are enduring.
New King James Version
so that we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that you endure,
Simplified Cowboy Version
We pass along how proud we are of you to the other outfits riding for the same brand we do. We commend y'all for always finishing what you've started and getting back on no matter how hard life has bucked you off.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
therefore, we ourselves speak proudly of you among the churches of God for your perseverance and faith in the midst of all your persecutions and afflictions which you endure.
Legacy Standard Bible
so that we ourselves boast about you among the churches of God for your perseverance and faith in the midst of all your persecutions and afflictions which you endure.

Contextual Overview

1 Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the assembly of the Thessalonians in God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 3 We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you towards one another abounds; 4 so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

glory: 2 Corinthians 7:14, 2 Corinthians 9:2, 2 Corinthians 9:4, 1 Thessalonians 2:19

your patience: 2 Thessalonians 3:5, Romans 2:7, Romans 5:3-5, Romans 8:25, Romans 12:12, 1 Thessalonians 1:3, 1 Thessalonians 3:2-8, Hebrews 6:15, Hebrews 10:36, Hebrews 12:1-3, James 1:3, James 1:4, James 5:7, James 5:8, 2 Peter 1:6, Revelation 14:12

your persecutions: 1 Thessalonians 2:14, 1 Thessalonians 3:3, 1 Thessalonians 3:4, James 5:11

Reciprocal: Matthew 5:10 - for Luke 16:26 - between John 14:2 - if 1 Corinthians 13:7 - endureth 2 Corinthians 1:7 - as ye 2 Corinthians 4:17 - worketh 1 Thessalonians 1:6 - received 1 Thessalonians 1:8 - in every 1 Timothy 6:20 - keep 2 Timothy 2:12 - we suffer Revelation 1:9 - in the Revelation 7:14 - came

Cross-References

Genesis 1:10
God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters he called Seas. God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:12
The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:18
and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:25
God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:31
God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
Ecclesiastes 2:13
Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.
Ecclesiastes 11:7
Truly the light is sweet, And a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to see the sun.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So that we ourselves glory in you,.... Or "of you"; for though they were the subject concerning which, yet not the object in which they gloried; the apostle elsewhere advises not to glory in men, but only in the Lord; nor was this his practice contrary to his advice, for he did not boast of these persons with respect to their carnal things; he did not glory in their flesh, nor in their riches, nor wisdom, nor strength, nor any external gift; he gloried indeed of their graces, and of the exercise and increase of them; but of these not as of themselves, or as owing to him, and his fellow ministers, but as instances of the grace of God, and for which he gives thanks to him: and besides, he did not glory of these in the presence of God, in whose presence none should glory, but

in the churches of God; the other churches in Macedonia and Achaia, as Philippi, Berea, Corinth, c. he gave thanks to God for them, and gloried of them before men, or among the saints, to the glory of the grace of God in them, and in order to stir up other churches to an emulation and imitation of them. And the particulars he gloried of them for were as follow,

for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure: many and sore were the reproaches, the afflictions, and persecutions that befell them for the sake of Christ, and their profession of him, and his Gospel and which is more or less the case of everyone that will live godly in Christ Jesus: and these they endured, they bore and stood up under, they were not shocked, and staggered, and moved from the hope of the Gospel by them; which shows that the truth of grace was in them; for where there is not the root of the matter, when tribulation and affliction arise because of the profession of the word, such are offended, stumbled, and quickly gone; but these saints endured their afflictions, and with great patience, without murmuring and repining, and with great constancy, firmness, and resolution of mind. They stood fast in the grace and doctrine of faith, and in the profession of both, which they held without wavering, and none of the things they met with could move them from it. The apostle had mentioned their faith before, and he takes notice of it again, because their patience, constancy, and perseverance in sufferings, arose from it; for the trying of faith works patience, James 1:3. The Ethiopic version leaves out the word "faith", but very wrongly.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God - That is, we mention your example to other churches, and glory in it, as an evidence of what the gospel is suited to do; see the notes on 1 Thessalonians 2:19-20; compare the notes on 2 Corinthians 9:2.

For your patience - Your patient endurance of trials.

And faith - Fidelity, or constancy. You have shown unwavering confidence in God in your afflictions.

In all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure - See the notes on 1 Thessalonians 2:14; 1 Thessalonians 4:13. It would seem from this that the persecutions and trials to which the apostle referred in his First Epistle were still continued.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 4. We ourselves glory in you in the Churches of God — We hold you up as an example of what the grace of God, can produce when communicated to honest and faithful hearts.

For your patience and faith — From Acts 17:5; Acts 17:13, and from 1 Thessalonians 2:14, we learn, that the people of Thessalonica had suffered much persecution, both from the Jews and their own countrymen; but being thoroughly convinced of the truth of the Gospel, and feeling it to be the power of God unto salvation, no persecution could turn them aside from it. And having suffered for the truth, it was precious to them. Persecution never essentially injured the genuine Church of God.


 
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