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1 Thessalonians 3:7
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
we were: 1 Thessalonians 3:8, 1 Thessalonians 3:9, 2 Corinthians 1:4, 2 Corinthians 7:6, 2 Corinthians 7:7, 2 Corinthians 7:13, 2 John 1:4
in all: Acts 17:4-10, 1 Corinthians 4:9-13, 2 Corinthians 11:23-28, 2 Timothy 3:10-12
Reciprocal: Exodus 4:14 - cometh Psalms 137:6 - if I prefer Luke 15:6 - his John 16:22 - and your John 16:33 - but Acts 28:15 - he thanked Romans 1:12 - that I may 1 Corinthians 16:18 - they 2 Corinthians 6:4 - distresses 2 Corinthians 6:10 - sorrowful 2 Corinthians 7:4 - I am filled Philippians 2:17 - I joy Colossians 4:11 - a comfort Philemon 1:20 - let me
Cross-References
And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
And they were both naked, Adam and his wife, and were not ashamed.
They were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
The man and his wife were naked, but they were not ashamed.
And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.
And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
And the man and his wife were without clothing, and they had no sense of shame.
Although the man and his wife were both naked, they were not ashamed.
They were both naked, the man and his wife, and they were not ashamed.
And they were both naked, Man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over, you,.... Or "in you", as the Vulgate Latin version; or "from you", as the Arabic; or "by you", as the Syriac; or "for you", as the Ethiopic; that is, on account of them, either by what they had heard was in them, or had heard from them. This gave abundant consolation
in all our affliction and distress: which they met with at Corinth, where the apostle laboured with his own hands, and ministered to his own, and the necessities of others, and was greatly opposed, reproached, and persecuted; see Acts 18:3, but the news of the good estate and condition the Thessalonians were in, was a great relief and comfort to him, particularly their faith:
by your faith: by the report of it, that it grew exceedingly, and that they walked in the truth; see 1 John 5:4. The Alexandrian copy reads, "in all your distress and affliction, and by your faith."
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
We were comforted over you - See the notes, 2Co 1:3-7; 2 Corinthians 7:6-7. The sense here is, that their steadfastness was a great source of comfort to him in his trials. It was an instance where the holy lives and the fidelity of a people did much, as will always be the case, to lighten the burdens and cheer the heart of a minister of the gospel. In the inevitable trials of the ministerial office there is no source of comfort more rich and pure than this.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 7. Therefore - we were comforted — My afflictions and persecutions seemed trifles when I heard of your perseverance in the faith.