9For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;
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Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.
Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice …
But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more. …
We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers; …
Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together …
Commentary
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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