“ For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord. ”
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. N...
For now we (a) live, if ye stand fast in the Lord. (a) For now you cannot otherwise think of me as at rest and in a good state of being, unless you go forward in religion and faith.
The Mission of Timothy to Thessalonica. Paul's distress and anxiety with regard to the fate of the Church led him to send Timothy upon a mission of inquiry. He describes the effect produced upon hi...
live . See App-170. if . App-118. stand fast . Greek. steko. See Philippians 1:4 ; Philippians 1:1 . Lord . App-98.
8 For now we live. Here it appears still more clearly that Paul almost forgot himself for the sake of the Thessalonians, or, at least, making regard for himself a mere secondary consideration...
DISCOURSE: 2198 THE PEOPLE’S STABILITY IS THE MINISTER’S COMFORT 1 Thessalonians 3:8 . Now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord . THERE is nothing that more strongly characterizes a faithful m...
For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord. 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 labor in the Lord is not...
For now we live, if, &c.— "For now I live, indeed; I relish and enjoy life, seeing you continue steadfast in the profession, faith, and practice of the Christian religion, in which, through t...
For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord. Now - as the case is; seeing ye stand fast. We live - we flourish. It revives us in affliction to hear of your stedfastness ( Psalms 22:26 ;...
The Apostle's Anxiety about his Converts 1. Forbear] better, 'endure the suspense.'
Now we live, if. — “Now” contrasts the new life and vigour which the “gospel of their faith and charity” had infused into the Apostle, with the deadly sinking he had felt at the thought of their po...
Chapter 7 ABSENCE AND LONGING 1 Thessalonians 2:17-20 ; 1 Thessalonians 3:1-5 (R.V.) THE Apostle has said all that he means to say of the opposition of the Jews to the gospel, and in the ver...
Awakening Thanksgiving and Intercession 1 Thessalonians 3:1-13 At the outset observe that marginal reading by which Timothy is described as a fellow-worker with God . What a wonderful phrase,...
The special purpose of the next movement in his letter was the strengthening of the Thessalonians in their sufferings. Their "work of faith" had brought them into a place of service which entailed su...
(5) For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain. (6) В¶ But now when Timotheus came from you...
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...
For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord. Ver. 8. For now we live ] A joyless life is a lifeless life. An unsuccessful pastor hath little or no joy in his life. "Thus shall ye say to him tha...
For this cause The apostle proceeds to explain more fully what he began to speak of 1 Thessalonians 3:1 ; when I could no longer forbear Or endure the state of anxious uncertainty I was in with...
Paul had been driven by persecution from Thessalonica, then from Berea to Athens. Alone at Athens for a time ( Acts 17:1-34 ), he sent word for Silas and Timothy to come to him with all speed (17:15)...
The Mission of Timothy. A. D. 51. 6 But now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brough...
The comfort of their faith was so great that it would be as life to him, if they stood fast in it; which he calls a standing fast in the Lord. Life is not only the union of soul and body; comfort i...
‘For now we live if you stand firm in the Lord.' ‘Now we are alive.' This use of the word live emphasises the great burden under which Paul had suffered. He had felt dead and discouraged, but now he...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES 1 Thessalonians 3:8 . For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord. —The man who later could say, “For to me to live is Christ,” prepares us for that saying by th...
1 Thessalonians 3:6-10 I. The Apostle now tells us that, on Timothy's return from his mission, bearing good tidings of the Thessalonian Church, he had been comforted. The new-born joy, the tender...
1 Thessalonians 3:1 . Wherefore, when we could no longer forbear, seeing you were so oppressed with persecutions, we sent Timothy, and preferred being left agone without a fellow-labourer at Athen...
EXPOSITION CONTENTS .—The apostle, no longer able to repress his longing and anxiety for the Thessalonians, resolved to be left alone at Athens, and sent Timothy for the purpose of exhorting th...
The effect upon the apostle of Timothy's encouraging report:
1 Corinthians 15:58 ; 1 Corinthians 16:13 ; 1 Peter 5:10 ; 1 Samuel 25:6 ; 2 Peter 3:17 ; Acts 11:23 ; Colossians 1:23 ; Ephesians 3:17 ; Ephesians 4:15 ; Ephesians 4:16 ; Ephesians 6:13 ;...
Now we live — Indeed; we enjoy life: so great is our affection for you.