1For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain:
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Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you:
Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?
A Song of degrees for Solomon. Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Here we have an account of Paul’s manner of preaching, and his comfortable reflection upon his entrance in among the Thessalonians. As he had the testimony of his own conscience witnessing to his integrity, so he could appeal to the Thessalonians how faithful he, and Silas, and Timotheus, his helpers in the work of the Lord, had discharged their office: You yourselves, brethren, know our entrance…
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