1 Tesalonika 2:8

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Demikianlah kami, dalam kasih sayang yang besar akan kamu, bukan saja rela membagi Injil Allah dengan kamu, tetapi juga hidup kami sendiri dengan kamu, karena kamu telah kami kasihi.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Demikianlah kami, dalam kasih sayang yang besar akan kamu, bukan saja rela membagi Injil Allah dengan kamu, tetapi juga hidup kami sendiri dengan kamu, karena kamu telah kami kasihi.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Oleh yang demikian, sebab sangat sayang akan kamu, maka sukalah kami bukan sahaja memberi kepadamu Injil Allah itu, melainkan jiwa kami juga dari sebab kamu sudah menjadi sangat dikasihi oleh kami.

Contextual Overview

⁷ When we myght haue ben in auctoritie, as the Apostles of Christe, but we were tender among you, euen as a nource cherissheth her chyldren, ⁸ So, beyng tenderly affected towarde you, our good wyll was to haue dealt vnto you, not the Gospell of God only: but also our owne soules, because ye were deare vnto vs. ⁹ For ye remember brethren, our labour and trauayle. For we labouryng nyght & day, because we woulde not be chargeable vnto any of you, preached vnto you the Gospell of God. ¹⁰ Ye [are] witnesses, & God [also] howe holyly, and iustly, and vnblameably, we behaued our selues among you that beleue. ¹¹ As ye knowe, howe that as a father his chyldren, so we haue exhorted, comforted, and besought euery one of you, ¹² That ye woulde walke worthie of God, who hath called you vnto his kyngdome and glorie.

Bible Verse Review
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affectionately: Jeremiah 13:15-17, Romans 1:11, Romans 1:12, Romans 9:1-3, Romans 10:1, Romans 15:29, 2 Corinthians 6:1, 2 Corinthians 6:11-13, Galatians 4:19, Philippians 1:8, Philippians 2:25, Philippians 2:26, Colossians 1:28, Colossians 4:12, Hebrews 13:17

but: Acts 20:23, Acts 20:24, 2 Corinthians 12:15, Philippians 2:17, 1 John 3:16

dear: Luke 7:2, Philippians 2:20, *marg. Philippians 4:1, Colossians 1:7, Philemon 1:1

Reciprocal: Exodus 18:18 - Thou wilt surely wear away Lamentations 3:41 - with Acts 16:32 - they Romans 12:8 - giveth 2 Corinthians 7:3 - to die 2 Corinthians 8:3 - beyond 2 Corinthians 12:14 - for I Galatians 4:15 - if 1 Thessalonians 3:12 - even

Cross-References

Genesis 2:8
And the Lord God planted a garden eastwarde in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had shapen.

Genesis 2:9
Moreouer, out of the grounde made the Lorde God to growe euery tree, that was fayre to syght, and pleasaunt to eate: The tree of lyfe in the myddest of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and euyll.

Genesis 3:24
And so he droue out man, and at the east side of the garde of Eden he set Cherubins, and a fierie two edged sworde, to kepe the way of the tree of lyfe.

Genesis 4:16
And Cain went out from the presence of the Lorde, & dwelt in the lande of Nod, eastwarde from Eden.

Genesis 13:10
And so Lot lyftyng vp his eyes, behelde all the countrey of Iordane, whiche was well watred euery where before the Lorde destroyed Sodome and Gomorrh, euen as the garden of the Lorde, lyke the lande of Egypt as thou commest vnto Soar.

2 Kings 19:12
Haue the gods of the heathen deliuered them, whiche myne auncestours haue destroyed? As Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelassar?

Isaiah 51:3
Therfore shall the Lorde comfort Sion, and repayre all her decay, makyng her desert as a paradise, and her wildernesse as the garden of the Lorde: Mirth and ioy shalbe founde there, thankesgeuyng and the voyce of prayse.

Ezekiel 27:23
Haran, Chenne, and Eden, the marchauntes of Seba, Assyria, and Chelmad were doers with thee:

Ezekiel 28:13
Thou hast ben in the pleasaunt garden of God, thou art deckt with all maner of precious stones, with ruby, topas, diamond, thurkis, onyx, iasper, saphir, emeralde, carbuncle, and golde: the workemanship of thy timbrels and of thy pipes [that be] in thee, was prepared in the day that thou wast created.

Ezekiel 31:16
I made the heathen shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast hym downe to hell with them that descend into the pit: all the excellent trees of Eden, & the best of Libanus, all that drinke waters, shalbe comforted in the neather partes of the earth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So being affectionately desirous of you,.... Not of theirs but them; not of glory from them, nor a maintenance by them, but of their spiritual and eternal welfare; were as fond of them as a nursing mother is of her children, who, when absent from them but ever so little a while, longs to see them; see 1 Thessalonians 2:17 and 1 Thessalonians 3:1,

we were willing: took the utmost pleasure, delight, and complacency:

to have imparted unto you, not the Gospel of God only; the sincere milk of the word, which they did freely, fully, and for their spiritual good and profit, without any regard to any advantage of their own:

but also our own souls, or "lives"; which is the highest expression and strongest proof of love that can be given; and respect is still had to the similitude of the nursing mother, who may be said to impart her blood, for such it her milk diversified, for the nourishment of her children: and such was the great concern of the apostles for the interest of Christ, the spread of the Gospel, and the good of souls, that their lives were not dear unto them, so that these ends might he answered: because ye were dear unto us; both because they were loved by God, redeemed by Christ, regenerated by the Spirit of Christ, and had the image of Christ stamped upon them; and also because that they were their spiritual children; and as children are dear to their parents, so were these to them, even to such a degree, as that, were there a necessity for it, they could freely have laid down their lives for them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

So, being affectionately desirous of you - The word here rendered “being affectionately desirous” - ὁμειρομενοι homeiromenoi - occurs nowhere else in the New Testament. It means to “long after, to have a strong affection for.” The sense here is, that Paul was so strongly attached to them that he would have been willing to lay down his life for them.

We were willing to have imparted unto you - To have given or communicated; Romans 1:11.

Not the gospel of God only - To be willing to communicate the knowledge of the gospel was in itself a strong proof of love, even if it were attended with no self-denial or hazard in doing it. We evince a decided love for a man when we tell him of the way of salvation, and urge him to accept of it. We show strong interest for one who is in danger, when we tell him of a way of escape, or for one who is sick, when we tell him of a medicine that will restore him; but we manifest a much higher love when we tell a lost and ruined sinner of the way in which he may be saved. There is no method in which we can show so strong an interest in our fellow-men, and so much true benevolence for them, as to go to them and tell them of the way by which they may be rescued from everlasting ruin.

But also our own souls - Or rather “lives” - ψυχὰς psuchas; Matthew 6:25; Matthew 20:28; Luke 12:22, Luke 12:13; Mark 3:4. This does not mean that the apostle was willing to be damned, or to lose his soul in order to save them, but that if it had been necessary he would have been ready to lay down his life; see 1 John 3:16. “We ought to lay down our lives for the brethren;” compare notes, John 15:13. His object seems to be to assure them that he did not leave them from any want of love to them, or from the fear of being put to death. It was done from the strong conviction of duty. He appears to have left them because he could not longer remain without exposing others to danger, and without the certainty that there would be continued disturbances; see Acts 17:9-10.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 8. Being affectionately desirous of you — We had such intense love for you that we were not only willing and forward to preach the unsearchable riches of Christ to you, but also to give our own lives for your sake, because ye were dear, διοτι αγαπητοι ἡμιν, because ye were beloved by us. The words used here by the apostle are expressive of the strongest affection and attachment.