帖撒罗尼迦前书 3:10

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

我們晝夜迫切祈求，要見你們的面，並且要補滿你們信心的不足。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
我 们 昼 夜 切 切 的 祈 求 ， 要 见 你 们 的 面 ， 补 满 你 们 信 心 的 不 足 。

Contextual Overview

⁶ But Timothy now has come back to us from you and has brought us good news about your faith and love. He told us that you always remember us in a good way and that you want to see us just as much as we want to see you. ⁷ So, brothers and sisters, while we have much trouble and suffering, we are encouraged about you because of your faith. ⁸ Our life is really full if you stand strong in the Lord. ⁹ We have so much joy before our God because of you. We cannot thank him enough for all the joy we feel. ¹⁰ Night and day we continue praying with all our heart that we can see you again and give you all the things you need to make your faith strong.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Night: Luke 2:37, Acts 26:7, 2 Timothy 1:3, Revelation 4:8, Revelation 7:15

praying: 1 Thessalonians 3:11, 1 Thessalonians 2:17, 1 Thessalonians 2:18, Romans 1:10, Romans 15:30-32, Philemon 1:22

might perfect: Romans 1:11, Romans 1:12, 2 Corinthians 1:15, 2 Corinthians 1:24, 2 Corinthians 13:9, 2 Corinthians 13:11, Philippians 1:25, Colossians 1:28, Colossians 4:12, 2 Thessalonians 1:11

Reciprocal: Genesis 24:12 - I pray 1 Samuel 12:23 - God forbid Psalms 22:2 - I cry Psalms 88:1 - I have Luke 18:7 - which Acts 15:36 - and see Romans 1:9 - that Romans 15:23 - and Colossians 1:3 - praying 1 Thessalonians 2:9 - night 1 Thessalonians 3:6 - desiring Hebrews 13:17 - with joy

Cross-References

Genesis 2:25
The man and his wife were naked, but they were not ashamed.

Genesis 3:7
Then, it was as if their eyes were opened. They realized they were naked, so they sewed fig leaves together and made something to cover themselves.

Genesis 3:17
Then God said to the man, "You listened to what your wife said, and you ate fruit from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat. "So I will put a curse on the ground, and you will have to work very hard for your food. In pain you will eat its food all the days of your life.

Genesis 3:18
The ground will produce thorns and weeds for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

Exodus 3:6
I am the God of your ancestors—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." Moses covered his face because he was afraid to look at God.

Exodus 32:25
Moses saw that the people were acting wildly. Aaron had let them get out of control and become fools in front of their enemies.

Job 23:15
That is why I am frightened of him; when I think of this, I am afraid of him.

Psalms 119:120
I shake in fear of you; I respect your laws.

Isaiah 33:14
The sinners in Jerusalem are afraid; those who are separated from God shake with fear. They say, "Can any of us live through this fire that destroys? Who can live near this fire that burns on and on?"

Isaiah 47:3
People will see your nakedness; they will see your shame. I will punish you; I will punish every one of you."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Night and day praying exceedingly,.... This good news, not only comforted their hearts, and revived their spirits, and filled them with joy and thankfulness, but also sent them to the throne of grace to pray without ceasing, continually, night and day, and as often as they went thither, and that with great fervency and earnestness, in a multitude of petitions; or, as the Arabic version renders it, "with prayers exceeding a multitude"; with innumerable requests:

that we might see your face: once more, and converse face to face:

and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith? in the grace of faith; for though they remembered their work of faith with pleasure, and had had good tidings of it very lately, and were thankful that it grew exceedingly as it did, yet they knew it was not perfect, there was unbelief attending them: and though it is God's work to increase faith, as well as to produce it, yet, as the ministry of the word is the means of the first planting of it, so it also is of the increase of it. This may likewise be understood of the doctrine of faith, which though they had received in the love of it, and had made considerable progress in their knowledge of it; yet they knew but in part, and needed to be taught the way of God, and truths of the Gospel more perfectly; and the ministry of the word is for the perfecting of the saints in the knowledge of the Son of God, and of other truths; wherefore the apostle desired greatly to see them, that he might be an instrument of instructing them, more perfectly in the knowledge of divine things; and in this, and in the following epistle, he does particularly instruct them about the rise and fall of antichrist, the coming of Christ and the resurrection of the dead, articles of faith in which they seemed to have been deficient: but now, though these saints had deficiencies in their faith, yet they were not what the Jews call o מחוסרי אמנה, "such as are deficient in faith", or want faith entirely, a phrase somewhat like this which is here used.

o Maimon. Hilch. Mechira, c. 7. sect. 8, 9.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Night and day - Constantly.

Praying exceedingly - Greek, abundantly; that is, there was much more than ordinary prayer. He made this a special subject of prayer; he urged it with earnestness, and without intermission; compare 1 Thessalonians 2:17.

And might perfect that which is lacking in your faith - Might render it complete, or fill up anything which is missing. The word used here (καταρτίσαι katartisai), means, properly, to make fully ready, to put full in order, to make complete; see the Romans 9:22 note; 2 Corinthians 13:9 note; Galatians 6:1 note. It is rendered mending, Matthew 4:21; Mark 1:19; perfect and perfected, Matthew 21:19; Luk 6:40; 2 Corinthians 13:11; 1 Thessalonians 3:10; Heb 13:21; 1 Peter 5:10; fitted, Romans 9:22; perfectly joined together, 1 Corinthians 1:10; restore, Galatians 6:1; prepared, Hebrews 10:5; and framed, Hebrews 11:3. It is not elsewhere used in the New Testament. The meaning here is, that whatever was deficient in their views of religious doctrine the apostle desired to supply. It is to be remembered that he was with them but a comparatively short time before he was compelled to depart to Berea, and it is reasonable to suppose that there were many subjects on which he would be glad to have an opportunity to instruct them more fully.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 10. Night and day praying exceedingly — Supplicating God at all times; mingling this with all my prayers; υπερεκπερισσου δεομενοι, abounding and superabounding in my entreaties to God to permit me to revisit you. How strong was his affection for this Church!

Might perfect that which is lacking — That I might have the opportunity of giving you the fullest instructions in the doctrine of Christ, that ye might have every thing in the most ample detail; so that the great outlines of truth which you already know may be filled up, that ye may be perfectly fitted to every good word and work.