Θεσσαλονικεῖς α’ 3:7

Greek Modern Translation

δια τουτο παρηγορηθημεν, αδελφοι, δια σας εν ολη τη θλιψει και στενοχωρια ημων δια της πιστεως σας·

Parallel Translations

Byzantine/Majority Text
δια τουτο παρεκληθημεν αδελφοι εφ υμιν επι παση τη θλιψει και αναγκη ημων δια της υμων πιστεως

SBL Greek New Testament (2010)
διὰ τοῦτο παρεκλήθημεν, ἀδελφοί, ἐφ ὑμῖν ἐπὶ πάσῃ τῇ ⸂ἀνάγκῃ καὶ θλίψει⸃ ἡμῶν διὰ τῆς ὑμῶν πίστεως,

Tischendorf 8th Edition
διὰ τοῦτο παρεκλήθημεν, ἀδελφοί, ἐφ’ ὑμῖν ἐπὶ πάσῃ τῇ ἀνάγκῃ καὶ θλίψει ἡμῶν διὰ τῆς ὑμῶν πίστεως,

Textus Receptus (1550/1894)
δια τουτο παρεκληθημεν αδελφοι εφ υμιν επι παση τη θλιψει και αναγκη ημων δια της υμων πιστεως

Westcott/Hort UBS4 (1881)
δια τουτο παρεκληθημεν αδελφοι εφ υμιν επι παση τη αναγκη και θλιψει ημων δια τηρ υμων πιστεωρ

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

we were: 1 Thessalonians 3:8, 1 Thessalonians 3:9, 2 Corinthians 1:4, 2 Corinthians 7:6, 2 Corinthians 7:7, 2 Corinthians 7:13, 2 John 1:4

in all: Acts 17:4-10, 1 Corinthians 4:9-13, 2 Corinthians 11:23-28, 2 Timothy 3:10-12

Reciprocal: Exodus 4:14 - cometh Psalms 137:6 - if I prefer Luke 15:6 - his John 16:22 - and your John 16:33 - but Acts 28:15 - he thanked Romans 1:12 - that I may 1 Corinthians 16:18 - they 2 Corinthians 6:4 - distresses 2 Corinthians 6:10 - sorrowful 2 Corinthians 7:4 - I am filled Philippians 2:17 - I joy Colossians 4:11 - a comfort Philemon 1:20 - let me

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over, you,.... Or "in you", as the Vulgate Latin version; or "from you", as the Arabic; or "by you", as the Syriac; or "for you", as the Ethiopic; that is, on account of them, either by what they had heard was in them, or had heard from them. This gave abundant consolation

in all our affliction and distress: which they met with at Corinth, where the apostle laboured with his own hands, and ministered to his own, and the necessities of others, and was greatly opposed, reproached, and persecuted; see Acts 18:3, but the news of the good estate and condition the Thessalonians were in, was a great relief and comfort to him, particularly their faith:

by your faith: by the report of it, that it grew exceedingly, and that they walked in the truth; see 1 John 5:4. The Alexandrian copy reads, "in all your distress and affliction, and by your faith."

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

We were comforted over you - See the notes, 2Co 1:3-7; 2 Corinthians 7:6-7. The sense here is, that their steadfastness was a great source of comfort to him in his trials. It was an instance where the holy lives and the fidelity of a people did much, as will always be the case, to lighten the burdens and cheer the heart of a minister of the gospel. In the inevitable trials of the ministerial office there is no source of comfort more rich and pure than this.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 7. Therefore - we were comforted — My afflictions and persecutions seemed trifles when I heard of your perseverance in the faith.