10Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
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For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.
But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire. …
Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you. …
Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.
Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-10)Here we have Paul’s great satisfaction upon the return of Timothy with good tidings from the Thessalonians, in which we may observe, I. The good report Timothy made concerning them, 1 Thess. 3:6. Without question, he was a willing messenger of these good tidings. Concerning their faith , that is, concerning their stedfastness in the faith, that they were not shaken in mind, nor turned aside form t…
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