帖撒罗尼迦前书 3:6

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

提摩太剛剛從你們那裡回來，把你們信心和愛心的好消息帶給我們。他還說，你們常常懷念我們，切切想見我們，好像我們想見你們一樣。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
但 提 摩 太 刚 才 从 你 们 那 里 回 来 ， 将 你 们 信 心 和 爱 心 的 好 消 息 报 给 我 们 ， 又 说 你 们 常 常 记 念 我 们 ， 切 切 的 想 见 我 们 ， 如 同 我 们 想 见 你 们 一 样 。

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

when: Acts 18:1, Acts 18:5

and brought: Proverbs 25:25, Isaiah 52:7, 2 Corinthians 7:5-7

faith: 1 Corinthians 13:13, Galatians 5:6, Colossians 1:4, 2 Thessalonians 1:3, 1 Timothy 1:5, Philemon 1:5, 1 John 3:23

and that: 1 Thessalonians 1:3, 1 Thessalonians 2:9, 1 Corinthians 11:2, Colossians 4:18, 2 Timothy 1:3, Hebrews 13:3, Hebrews 13:7

desiring: 1 Thessalonians 3:9, 1 Thessalonians 3:10, 1 Thessalonians 2:17, Philippians 1:8

Reciprocal: Exodus 4:14 - cometh Joshua 22:33 - the thing 1 Samuel 17:18 - look 1 Chronicles 29:9 - David Song of Solomon 7:12 - let us see Acts 11:22 - tidings Acts 15:36 - and see Romans 15:32 - and may Romans 16:19 - I am Romans 16:21 - Timotheus 1 Corinthians 4:8 - ye did 1 Corinthians 13:6 - rejoiceth 1 Corinthians 16:14 - General 1 Corinthians 16:18 - they 2 Corinthians 7:6 - comforted 2 Corinthians 7:7 - fervent Philippians 1:27 - I may Philippians 2:2 - Fulfil Philippians 2:19 - to send 1 Thessalonians 3:5 - I sent 2 John 1:4 - rejoiced 3 John 1:2 - even 3 John 1:3 - when Revelation 2:19 - charity

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
Now the snake was the most clever of all the wild animals the Lord God had made. One day the snake said to the woman, "Did God really say that you must not eat fruit from any tree in the garden?"

Genesis 3:2
The woman answered the snake, "We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden.

Genesis 3:12
The man said, "You gave this woman to me and she gave me fruit from the tree, so I ate it."

Genesis 3:14
The Lord God said to the snake, "Because you did this, a curse will be put on you. You will be cursed as no other animal, tame or wild, will ever be. You will crawl on your stomach, and you will eat dust all the days of your life.

Genesis 3:15
I will make you and the woman enemies to each other. Your descendants and her descendants will be enemies. One of her descendants will crush your head, and you will bite his heel."

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 3:19
You will sweat and work hard for your food. Later you will return to the ground, because you were taken from it. You are dust, and when you die, you will return to the dust."

Genesis 6:2
When the sons of God saw that these girls were beautiful, they married any of them they chose.

Genesis 39:7
After some time the wife of Joseph's master began to desire Joseph, and one day she said to him, "Have sexual relations with me."

Joshua 7:21
Among the things I saw was a beautiful coat from Babylonia and about five pounds of silver and more than one and one-fourth pounds of gold. I wanted these things very much for myself, so I took them. You will find them buried in the ground under my tent, with the silver underneath."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But now when Timotheus came from you unto us,.... At Corinth, as appears from Acts 18:5 which shows that this epistle was not written from Athens, as the subscription to it asserts, but from Corinth; for as soon as ever Timothy came from Thessalonica, to the apostle at Corinth, and made the report to him, he immediately sent them this epistle which is here suggested: "but, now", c. just now "lately", as the Syriac version renders it, a very little while ago, Timothy was just come:

and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity; of their faith, the grace of faith, that it was of the right kind; as far as could be judged, it was the faith of God's elect, like precious faith with theirs; an unfeigned one, strong and lively, operative and growing: or of the doctrine of faith, as received and embraced by them; as that they were greatly led, and had much light into it, and had, for the time, made considerable proficiency in it; that they held it fast, and stood fast in it, and contended for it, notwithstanding all the afflictions, reproaches, and persecutions which they either saw in the apostles, or endured themselves for the sake of it; and likewise of the profession of both the grace and doctrine of faith, which they held fast, and without wavering, and that in a pure conscience, which was good news indeed. Timothy also brought an account of their "charity", or love, which faith works by; these two graces are always found together; they are wrought in the soul by one, and the same hand, and at the same time; where the one is, the other is; and as the one flourishes and increases, so does the other. And by this grace is meant love to God, to Christ, to his truths, ordinances, ways, and worship, and to one another, and even to all men; and which was without dissimulation, in sincerity, in deed, and in truth, and was constant and fervent: and this was not the whole of the report, for it follows,

and that ye have a remembrance of us always they bore in memory the persons of the apostles; and when they made mention of their names, it was with the greatest respect and reverence; nor were they forgetful hearers of the word, but remembered with great affection and pleasure the truths, the doctrines, and exhortations they delivered to them, so as to put them in practice, and longed for another visit from them, to have their memories refreshed by them:

desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you, they had an equal desire to see their spiritual fathers, as they had to see their spiritual children. Now such a report as this concerning their steady faith in Christ, their fervent love to one another, and their affectionate regard to the ministers of the word, was a sort of a Gospel, as the word used signifies; or it was good news and glad tidings to the apostle, and those that were with him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But now when Timotheus came from you unto us - To Corinth, after he had been sent to Thessalonica; Acts 18:5; compare notes on 1 Thessalonians 3:2.

And brought us good tidings - A cheerful or favorable account. Greek “evangelizing;” that is, bringing good news.

Of your faith - Of your faithfulness or fidelity. Amidst all their trials they evinced fidelity to the Christian cause.

And charity - Love; notes, 1 Corinthians 13:1.

And that ye have good remembrance of us always - That is, probably, they showed their remembrance of Paul by obeying his precepts, and by cherishing an affectionate regard for him, notwithstanding all the efforts which had been made to alienate their affections from him.

Desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you - There was no disposition to blame him for having left them, or because he did not return to them. They would have welcomed him again as their teacher and friend. The meaning of this is, that there was between him and them a strong mutual attachment.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 6. When Timotheus came — We have already seen that he and Silas stayed behind at Thessalonica, when Paul was obliged to leave it; for the persecution seems to have been principally directed against him. When Paul came to Athens, he sent pressingly to him and Silas to come to him with all speed to that city. We are not informed that they did come, but it is most likely that they did, and that Paul sent Timothy back to Thessalonica to comfort and build up these new converts. After Paul had sent away Timothy, it is likely he went himself straight to Corinth, and there Timothy soon after met him, with the good news of the steadiness of the Thessalonian Church.

Your faith and charity — The good tidings which Timothy brought from Thessalonica consisted of three particulars:

1. Their faith; they continued steadfast in their belief of the Gospel.

2. Their charity; they loved one another, and lived in unity and harmony.

3. They were affectionately attached to the apostle; they had good remembrance of him, and desired earnestly to see him.