1 Thessalonians 2:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰For ye are our glory and joy.

1 Thessalonians 2:20 —

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Cross-References

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2 Corinthians 1:14
As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.
1 Corinthians 11:7
For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
Proverbs 17:6
Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 17-20)

In these words the apostle apologizes for his absence. Here observe, 1. He tells them they were involuntarily forced from them: We, brethren, were taken from you, 1 Thess. 2:17. Such was the rage of his persecutors. He was unwillingly sent away by night to Berea, Acts 17:10. 2. Though he was absent in body, yet he was present in heart. He had still a remembrance of them, and great care for them. 3…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

20. Emphatical repetition with increased force. Who but ye and our other converts are our hope, &c., hereafter, at Christ’s coming? For it is ye who ARE now our glory and joy.