1 Thessalonians 3:7
Therefore we were comforted, brethren, in you, in all our necessity and tribulation, by your faith,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- ideo consolati sumus, fratres, in vobis in omni necessitate et tribulatione nostra, per fidem vestram,
- Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- διὰ τοῦτο παρεκλήθημεν, ἀδελφοί, ἐφʼ ὑμῖν ἐπὶ πάσῃ τῇ ἀνάγκῃ καὶ θλίψει ἡμῶν διὰ τῆς ὑμῶν πίστεως,
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians, 1 Thessalonians 3:5-8
1 Thessalonians iii. 5-8 “For this cause I also, when I could no longer forbear, sent that I might know your faith, lest by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor should be in vain. But when Timothy came even now unto us from you, and brought us glad tidings of your faith and love, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, longing to see us, even as we also to see you; for this cause, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith: for now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.” A question lies before us to-day, which is much disputed, and which is gathered from many sources. …