1 Thessalonians 1:2

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We give thanks to God; after his salutation he adds his thanksgiving and prayer for them. He saw in them an eminent seal of his apostleship, and effect of his ministry, and advantage to the gospel in their example, and so gives thanks. And his thanks is to God, because the success of the gospel was more from his blessing than his own ministry. Always; pantote, that is, in a constant course; or affectu, though not actu, by a grateful sense he had of it continually upon his heart. For you all; for he had a good report of them all from Timothy, 1 Thessalonians 3:6, and we find not one reproof in this First Epistle to any one, as in the Second. Making mention of you in our prayers; he adds also his prayer for them, wherein he made mention of them by name, as some understand the words, mneian upwn poioumenoi. Prayer and thanksgiving ought to go together, especially in the ministers of the gospel, and in the work of their ministry. And thus the apostle practised towards other churches also, as Romans 1:8 Philippians 1:3, &c.