1 Thessalonians 3:7-8

“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.”

"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." - 1 Thessalonians 3:7-8
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What does 1 Thessalonians 3:7-8 mean?

The verse 1 Thessalonians 3:7-8 from the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible reads: "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." This verse comes from the first letter of Paul…

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Standing Fast: The Source of Our Hope

In the touching letter to the Thessalonian church, the Apostle Paul expresses profound pastoral care and joy in 1 Thessalonians 3:7-8: "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…

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A Prayer for Strengthened Faith and Endurance

Heavenly Father, As I come before You today, I trust in Your mercy and grace, and I lift up my voice with a heart full of gratitude for Your everlasting love and the fellowship of the brethren in Christ. Thank You for the words spoken in 1 Thessalonians 3:7-8, where the Apostle…

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1 Thessalonians 3:7-8 - "Therefore, brothers and sisters, in all our distress and persecution we were encouraged about you because of your faith. For now we really live, since you are standing firm in the Lord."
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1 Thessalonians 3:8 - "For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord."
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1 Thessalonians 1:7 - "So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia."
1 Thessalonians 3:3 - "That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto."
1 Thessalonians 5:7 - "For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night."
2 Thessalonians 3:7 - "For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;"
1 Thessalonians 4:7 - "For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness."
1 Thessalonians 2:3 - "For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:"
1 Thessalonians 3:1 - "Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone;"
1 Thessalonians 2:7 - "But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:"
1 Thessalonians 4:3 - "For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:"
2 Thessalonians 3:8 - "Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:"
1 Thessalonians 5:8 - "But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation."
2 Thessalonians 1:8 - "In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:"
1 Thessalonians 3:11 - "Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you."