"Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:" — 1 Thessalonians 3:7

1 Thessalonians 3:7 · KJV

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

— 1 Thessalonians 3:7

But now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also {to see} you:

Verse 8

For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.

1 Thessalonians 3 — Context

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.

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

For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.

For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;

Cross References

2 Corinthians 1:4

Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

2 John 1:4

I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.

1 Thessalonians 3:8-9

For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 4:9-13

For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men. {us...: or, us the last apostles, as} {spectacle: Gr. theatre}

2 Corinthians 11:23-28

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I {am} more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.

2 Corinthians 7:6-7

Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

Acts 17:4-10

And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.

2 Timothy 3:10-12

But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience, {fully...: or, been a diligent follower of}