Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:
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Gill's Exposition
Wherefore also we pray always for you,.... Not only observe the above things to your comfort, to support you under sufferings, but we add our prayers, and not only now, but always, that you may be…
Barnes' Notes
Wherefore also we pray always for you - See the notes, 1Th 1:2. That our God would count you worthy of this calling. - Margin, “or, vouchsafe.” The meaning is, “that he would regard you as worthy of…
Adam Clarke
We pray - that our God would count you worthy - It is our earnest prayer that God would make you worthy, αξιωσῃ, afford those continual supplies of grace by his Holy Spirit, without which you cannot…
In these verses the apostle again tells the Thessalonians of his earnest and constant prayer for them. He could not be present with them, yet he had a constant remembrance of them; they were much upon…
Cambridge Bible
Wherefore also we pray always for you Rather, To which end also we pray always for you (comp. 1Th 1:2; 1Th 3:10), that our God may count you worthy of His calling. God was "calling" the Thessalonians…
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