1 Thessalonians 3:7

For this reason, brothers, in all our distress and persecution, we have been reassured about you, because of your faith.

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KJV

Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:

ASV

for this cause, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith:

YLT

because of this we were comforted, brethren, over you, in all our tribulation and necessity, through your faith,

DBT

for this reason we have been comforted in you, brethren, in all our distress and tribulation, through your faith,

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Then when Paul says: we have been comforted about you, he speaks of the threefold effect of their relationship, namely, of spiritual consolation, of the spirit of thanksgiving, in the words: for what thanksgiving can we render to God for you, and of the resultant …

Thomas Aquinas· Commentary on 1 Thessalonians, 1274patristic

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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.

John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)reformed

We were comforted over you - See the notes, 2Co 1:3-7; 2Co 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.

Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)evangelical

It was easy to him to bear affliction, or persecution, or fightings from without, when he found the good success of his ministry and the constancy of the converts he had made to Christianity; and his distress of mind on account of his fears within, lest he had laboured in vain, was now in a good measure over, when he understood their faith and the perseverance of it.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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John 16:33
I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”
2 Corinthians 1:4
who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.
Colossians 4:11
Jesus, who is called Justus, also sends greetings. These are the only Jews among my fellow workers for the kingdom of God, and they have been a comfort to me.
2 Corinthians 6:10
sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
Romans 1:12
that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith.
2 John 1:4
I was overjoyed to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as the Father has commanded us.
John 16:22
So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.
1 Thessalonians 3:9
How can we adequately thank God for you in return for our great joy over you in His presence?
Luke 15:6
comes home, and calls together his friends and neighbors to tell them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my lost sheep!’
1 Corinthians 4:9–13
For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.
1 Thessalonians 3:8–9
For now we can go on living, as long as you are standing firm in the Lord.
2 Corinthians 11:23–28
Are they servants of Christ? I am speaking like I am out of my mind, but I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.

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2 Corinthians 1:4
who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.
leads to
- 1 Thessalonians 5:11
  Therefore encourage and build one another up, just as you are already doing.
- Isaiah 51:12
  “I, even I, am He who comforts you. Why should you be afraid of mortal man, of a son of man who withers like grass?
- 2 Thessalonians 2:16–17
  Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who by grace has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope,
- 2 Corinthians 7:6–7
  But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the arrival of Titus,
- Isaiah 40:1
  “Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God.
Through
2 John 1:4
I was overjoyed to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as the Father has commanded us.
leads to
- 3 John 1:3–4
  For I was overjoyed when the brothers came and testified about your devotion to the truth, in which you continue to walk.
- Ephesians 5:8
  For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
- 1 John 2:6
  Whoever claims to abide in Him must walk as Jesus walked.

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