We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
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Gill's Exposition
We are bound to thank God,.... Since all blessings, temporal and spiritual, come from him: and that always: seeing he is ever giving out fresh favours, or continuing former ones; and because those,…
Barnes' Notes
We are bound to thank God always for you; - See the notes on 1Th 1:2. “As it is meet.” Since it is fit or proper. “Because that your faith groweth exceedingly.” It would seem probable from this that…
Adam Clarke
Your faith groweth exceedingly - The word ὑπεραυξανει signifies to grow luxuriantly, as a good and healthy tree planted in a good soil; and if a fruit tree, bearing an abundance of fruit to…
Here we have,
I. The introduction (Th2 1:1, Th2 1:2), in the same words as in the former epistle, from which we may observe that as this apostle did not count it grievous to him to write the same…
Cambridge Bible
We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren The case is put in the same way in ch. 2Th 2:13 ("we are bound to give thanks"), and nowhere else in St Paul. The Apostle feels himself under a…
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