1 Thessalonians 3:8

Weymouth New Testament

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

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For now we live, if you stand firm in the Lord.

King James Version (1611)
For now we liue, if ye stand fast in the Lord.

King James Version
For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.

English Standard Version
For now we live, if you are standing fast in the Lord.

New American Standard Bible
for now we really live, if you stand firm in the Lord.

New Century Version
Our life is really full if you stand strong in the Lord.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
for now we really live, if you stand firm in the Lord.

Legacy Standard Bible
for now we really live, if you stand firm in the Lord.

Berean Standard Bible
For now we can go on living, as long as you are standing firm in the Lord.

Contemporary English Version
Your strong faith in the Lord is like a breath of new life.

Complete Jewish Bible
so that now we are alive; since you continue to stand fast, united with the Lord.

Darby Translation
because now we live if *ye* stand firm in [the] Lord.

Easy-to-Read Version
Our life is really full if you stand strong in the Lord.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For nowe are wee aliue, if ye stand fast in the Lorde.

George Lamsa Translation
Now we can live happily, if you stand firm in our LORD.

Good News Translation
because now we really live if you stand firm in your life in union with the Lord.

Lexham English Bible
because now we live, if you stand firm in the Lord.

Literal Translation
because now we live, if you should stand fast in the Lord.

Amplified Bible
because now we really live [in spite of everything], if you stand firm in the Lord.

American Standard Version
for now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.

Bible in Basic English
For it is life to us if you keep your faith in the Lord unchanged.

Hebrew Names Version
For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.

International Standard Version
For now we can go on living, as long as you continue to stand firm in the Lord.Philippians 4:1;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
And now we live, if you are established in our Lord.

Murdock Translation
And now, we live, if ye stand fast in our Lord.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For nowe we lyue, yf ye stande fast in the Lorde.

English Revised Version
for now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.

World English Bible
For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For now we lyuen, if ye stonden in the Lord.

Update Bible Version
for now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.

Webster's Bible Translation
For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.

New English Translation
For now we are alive again, if you stand firm in the Lord.

New King James Version
For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.

New Living Translation
It gives us new life to know that you are standing firm in the Lord.

New Life Bible
It is life to us to know that your faith in the Lord is strong.

New Revised Standard
For we now live, if you continue to stand firm in the Lord.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Because, now, we live, - if only, ye, stand fast in the Lord.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because now we live, if you stand in the Lord.

Revised Standard Version
for now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For now are we alyve yf ye stonde stedfast in the lorde.

Young's Literal Translation
because now we live, if ye may stand fast in the Lord;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For now are we alyue, yf ye stonde stedfast in ye LORDE.

Mace New Testament (1729)
for now I am reviv'd, since you continue stedfast in the christian profession.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Y'all are why we continue to saddle up every single day, take our running irons, and change the brand of those who believe.

Contextual Overview

⁶ But 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-- ⁷ for this reason in our distress and trouble we have been comforted about you, brethren, by your faith. ⁸ For now life is for us life indeed, since you are standing fast in the Lord. ⁹ 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, ¹⁰ while night and day, with intense earnestness, we pray that we may see your faces, and may bring to perfection whatever may be still lacking in your faith?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

we live: 1 Samuel 25:6,*Heb: Psalms 30:5, Philippians 1:21

if: John 8:31, John 15:4, John 15:7, Acts 11:23, 1 Corinthians 15:58, 1 Corinthians 16:13, Galatians 5:1, Ephesians 3:17, Ephesians 4:15, Ephesians 4:16, Ephesians 6:13, Ephesians 6:14, Philippians 1:27, Philippians 4:1, Colossians 1:23, Hebrews 3:14, Hebrews 4:14, Hebrews 10:23, 1 Peter 5:10, 2 Peter 3:17, Revelation 3:3, Revelation 3:11

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 29:36 - Hezekiah rejoiced Proverbs 23:15 - if Song of Solomon 5:1 - eat Romans 11:22 - if thou 2 Corinthians 7:7 - but Colossians 2:5 - and the 1 Thessalonians 2:6 - been burdensome 1 Thessalonians 3:7 - we were 1 Thessalonians 3:9 - for

Cross-References

Romans 2:15
since they exhibit proof that a knowledge of the conduct which the Law requires is engraven on their hearts, while their consciences also bear witness to the Law, and their thoughts, as if in mutual discussion, accuse them or perhaps maintain their innocence--

Hebrews 4:13
And no created thing is able to escape its scrutiny; but everything lies bare and completely exposed before the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For now we live,.... Before they were dead men, lifeless, disconsolate, dispirited, carrying about with them the dying of the Lord Jesus, and death working in them, and they, as it were, under the sentence of that, being killed all the day long for Christ's sake; but now, upon this news, in the midst of all their sore trials and troubles, their spirits revived, and they became alive and cheerful; see Psalms 22:26, it was like life from the dead unto them:

if ye stand fast in the Lord: or "our Lord", as the Syriac and Ethiopic versions read; that is, "in the faith of the Lord", as the Arabic version renders it: they were in the Lord secretly by electing grace, and openly by regenerating grace, and they abode in him; and by persevering grace, they were rooted and built up in Christ, and established in the faith of him, of his person, office, and grace; they were steady in the exercise of grace upon him, and stood fast in the liberty wherewith he had made them free, and continued steadfastly in the doctrines and ordinances of the Gospel; for the "if" here is not expressive of doubting, but of reasoning, "seeing ye stand fast in the Lord"; of which they were assured by Timothy: and this gave them fresh spirit and life amidst the deaths in which they often were.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord - This is equivalent to saying, “My life and comfort depend on your stability in the faith, and your correct Christian walk;” compare Martial 6:70. Non est vivere, sed valere, vita - “Life consists not merely in living, but in the enjoyment of health.” See also Seneca, Epis. 99, and Manilius, 1 Thessalonians 4:5, as quoted by Wetstein. The meaning here is, that Paul now enjoyed life; he had that which constituted real life, in the fact that they acted as became Christians, and so as to show that his labor among them had not been in vain. The same thing here affirmed is true of all faithful ministers of the gospel. They feel that they have something that may be called life, and that is worth living for, when those to whom they preach maintain a close walk with God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 8. For now we live — Your steadfastness in the faith gives me new life and comfort; I now feel that I live to some purpose, as my labour in the Lord is not in vain.