1 Thessalonians 3:7

“Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over, you, etc.] 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 <441803>Acts 18:3,6,9,10,12), but the news of the good estate and condition the Thessalonians were in, was a great relief and comfort to him, particularly…”

“over you--in respect to you. in--in the midst of: notwithstanding "all our distress (Greek, 'necessity') and affliction," namely, external trials at Corinth, whence Paul writes (compare Th1 3:6, with Act 18:5-10).”

“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. return to 'Top of Page'”

“we were: Th1 3:8, Th1 3:9; Co2 1:4, Co2 7:6, Co2 7:7, Co2 7:13; Jo2 1:4 in all: Act 17:4-10; Co1 4:9-13; Co2 11:23-28; Ti2 3:10-12 1 Thessalonians 3:8”