If ye stand fast (εαν υμεις στηκετε). Condition of first class, εαν and present active indicative (correct text, not στηκητε subj.…

For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord. This is equivalent to saying, "My life and comfort depend on your stability in the faith, …

Now we live, if.—“Now” contrasts the new life and vigor which the “gospel of their faith and charity” had infused into th…

The report helped Paul in his adversity (cf. Acts 18:6, 9–10, 12–13). He was facing physical privations (“distress”; GK 340) and sufferi…

For now we live. Here it appears even more clearly that Paul almost forgot himself for the sake of the Thessalonians, or, at least, making…

For now we live
Before they were dead men, lifeless, disconsolate, dispirited, carrying about with them the dying of …

Thankfulness to God is very imperfect in the present state; but one great end of the ministry of the word is to help faith forward. What was the in…

Paul mentioned the trials the The alonians had endured and the relief he intended to supply for them. Here he recalls how he came to their a istanc…