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:
Glory in you - `boast in your case.' Not merely do we hear others speaking of the Thessalonians' faith, but we ourselves, who might be expected to be silent on what redounds to our own praise cannot but boast of it. In 1 Thessalonians 1:8 Paul said their faith was so well known in various places that he and his fellow-missionaries needed not to speak of it; here he says, so abounding is their love, combined with faith and patience, that he and his fellow-missionaries themselves make it their present glorying in the various churches (now at Corinth in Achaia, to which church he wrote subsequently, boasting, in the Lord, of the faith of the Macedonian churches, 2 Corinthians 8:1; 2 Corinthians 10:15-17), besides looking forward to glorying thereat at Christ's coming (1 Thessalonians 2:19).
Patience. In 1 Thessalonians 1:3 "patience of hope." Here hope is tacitly supposed as the ground of their brave patience: 2 Thessalonians 1:5; 2 Thessalonians 1:7 state the object of their faith-namely, the kingdom for which they suffer.
Tribulations. The Jews instigated the populace and the magistrates against Christians. (Acts 17:5; Acts 17:8).
That ye endure - `are enduring.'