the Week of Proper 15 / Ordinary 20
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我 们 为 你 们 众 人 常 常 感 谢 神 ， 祷 告 的 时 候 提 到 你 们 ，
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Romans 1:8, Romans 1:9, Romans 6:17, 1 Corinthians 1:4, Ephesians 1:15, Ephesians 1:16, Philippians 1:3, Philippians 1:4, Colossians 1:3, Philemon 1:4
Reciprocal: Romans 16:19 - I am Philippians 1:7 - it is 1 Thessalonians 2:13 - thank 1 Thessalonians 3:9 - what 2 Thessalonians 1:3 - are 2 Timothy 1:3 - that
Cross-References
The earth produced plants with grain for seeds and trees that made fruits with seeds in them. Each seed grew its own kind of plant. God saw that all this was good.
Then God said, "Let there be lights in the sky to separate day from night. These lights will be used for signs, seasons, days, and years.
God stretches the northern sky out over empty space and hangs the earth on nothing.
And these are only a small part of God's works. We only hear a small whisper of him. Who could understand God's thundering power?"
The sky was made at the Lord 's command. By the breath from his mouth, he made all the stars.
The Lord created the heavens. He is the God who formed the earth and made it. He did not want it to be empty, but he wanted life on the earth. This is what the Lord says: "I am the Lord . There is no other God.
Nineveh is robbed, ruined, and destroyed. The people lose their courage, and their knees knock. Stomachs ache, and everyone's face grows pale.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
We give thanks to God always for you all,.... For all the members of this church, Jew or Gentile, rich or poor, greater or lesser believers, officers or private Christians; for their being a church, for the gifts bestowed on them, for the graces hereafter mentioned that were wrought in them and exercised by them; the glory of all which is given to God, and thanks for the same, which shows them to be gifts of his, and not in the least owing to any merits of men: the apostle ascribes nothing to their free will, previous dispositions and qualifications, diligence and industry; nor does he attribute anything to himself and to his companions, who were only ministers by whom these believed; but he refers all to God, to his grace and goodness: and he returned thanks to him for it, and that "always"; whenever he thought of it, made mention of it, or was at the throne of grace, as follows,
making mention of you in our prayers; to God, daily, both in private and in public, at which times thanksgivings to God were made on their account; for thanksgiving is a part of prayer, and requests are always to be made known unto God with thanksgiving. The Ethiopic version renders this clause in the singular number, "and I am mindful of you always in my prayer"; and leaves out the word "all" in the former clause.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
We give thanks to God always for you all - see the notes, Romans 1:9.
Making mention of you in our prayers - See the notes at Ephesians 1:16. It may be observed here:
(1) That the apostle was in the habit of constant prayer.
(2) That he was accustomed to extemporary prayer, and not to written prayer. It is not credible that “forms” of prayer had been framed for the churches at Thessalonica and Ephesus, and the other churches for which Paul says he prayed, nor would it have been possible to have adapted such forms to the varying circumstances attending the organization of new churches.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 1 Thessalonians 1:2. We give thanks — See Philippians 1:3; Philippians 1:4, and Colossians 1:3; where the same forms of speech are used.
