(1) We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith (a) groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth; (1) The first part of the epistle, in which he rejoices that through the grace of God, they have bravely susta... [ Continue Reading ]
(2) [Which is] a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer: (2) He shows the source of all true comfort, that is, that in afflictions which we suffer from the wicked for righteousness' sake, we may behold as it wer... [ Continue Reading ]
(3) Seeing [it is] a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; (3) A proof: God is just, and therefore he will worthily punish the unjust, and will do away the miseries of his people.... [ Continue Reading ]
And to you who are troubled rest (4) with us, (5) when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, (4) He strengthens and encourages them also along the way by this means, that the condition both of this present state and the state to come, is common to him with them. (5) A... [ Continue Reading ]
In flaming fire taking vengeance on them (6) that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: (6) There is no knowledge of God to salvation, without the Gospel of Christ.... [ Continue Reading ]
When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe ((7) because our testimony among you was believed) in that day. (7) They are considered as children of God by the faith which they have in the Gospel, which is preached to them by the apostles.... [ Continue Reading ]
(8) Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of (b) [this] calling, and fulfil (c) all the good pleasure of [his] goodness, and the (d) work of faith with power: (8) Seeing that we have the mark set before us, it remains that we go to it. And we go to it, by certai... [ Continue Reading ]