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remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.
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Faith, Love, and Hope in Action
Paul praises three active virtues. Commentators explain these are not just feelings but actions: faith that produces work, love that prompts laborious effort, and hope that inspires patient endurance. This triad is presented as the tangible, observable evidence of a vibrant Christian life.
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1 Thessalonians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Remembering without ceasing. This means remembering your faith and love whenever we pray. This is not to be understood literally, but it i…
Remembering (μνημονευοντες). Present active participle of old verb from adjective μνημων (mindful) and so to call to mind, to be m…
19th Century
Anglican
Faith . . . love . . . hope.—in this first of his writings, St. Paul has already fixed upon the three great …
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Baptist
Paul had a very high opinion of the Church in Thessalonica, and no doubt it deserved it. See how he speaks of it — with such confidence. Knowin…
Whenever Paul and his colleagues recalled the threefold nature of the Thessalonians’ progress, they could not stop thanking God. Of course, Paul do…
16th Century
Protestant
Unceasingly remembering you. While the adverb unceasingly might be connected with what comes before, it suits better to connect i…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Remembering without ceasing The phrase "without ceasing", is, by the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Ethiopic versions, j…
Just as all good comes from God, so no good can be hoped for by sinners, except from God in Christ. And the best good may be expected from God, as …
13th Century
Catholic
The Apostle wishes to strengthen the Church in the face of tribulations. First, he addresses present tribulations in the first letter to the Thessa…
