the Week of Proper 19 / Ordinary 24
free while helping to build churches and support pastors in Uganda.
Click here to learn more!
Read the Bible
2 Thessalonians 1:4
Bible Study Resources
Concordances:
- Nave'sDictionaries:
- BridgewayEncyclopedias:
- InternationalContextual Overview
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
God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
And God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the waters He called seas; and God saw that it was good.
God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the waters He called seas; and God saw that it was good.
And God called the drie lande ye earth, and the gatheryng together of waters called he the seas: and God sawe that it was good.
God named the dry land "earth," and he named the water that was gathered together "seas." And God saw that this was good.
God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.
And God clepide the drie place, erthe; and he clepide the gadryngis togidere of watris, the sees. And God seiy that it was good;
And God called the drie land, Earth, and the gathering together of the waters called hee, Seas: and God saw that it was good.
And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
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.
