1 Thessalonians 2:9

1 Thessalonians 2:9 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
• New International Version (NIV)Surely you remember, brothers and sisters, our toil and hardship; we worked night and day in order not to be a burden to anyone while we preached the gospel of God to you.
• English Standard Version (ESV)For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
• New King James Version (NKJV)For you remember, brethren, our labor and toil; for laboring night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.

Context of 1 Thessalonians 2:9

7But we proved to be gentle among you, as a nursing mother tenderly cares for her own children. 8Having so fond an affection for you, we were well-pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God but also our own lives, because you had become very dear to us. For you recall, brethren, our labor and hardship, how working night and day so as not to be a burden to any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God. 10You are witnesses, and so is God, how devoutly and uprightly and blamelessly we behaved toward you believers; 11just as you know how we were exhorting and encouraging and imploring each one of you as a father would his own children,

1 Thessalonians 2:9 word by word

Μνημονεύετε γάρ, ἀδελφοί, τὸν κόπον ἡμῶν καὶ τὸν μόχθον· νυκτὸς καὶ ἡμέρας ἐργαζόμενοι πρὸς τὸ μὴ ἐπιβαρῆσαί τινα ὑμῶν ἐκηρύξαμεν εἰς ὑμᾶς τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τοῦ θεοῦ.Read the interlinear

• For you recallμνημονεύωmnēmoneuō · to rememberG3421
• brethrenἀδελφόςadelphos · brotherG80
• laborκόποςkopos · laborG2873
• and hardshipμόχθοςmochthos · toilG3449
• nightνύξnux · nightG3571
• and dayἡμέραhēmera · dayG2250
• soπρόςpros · to/withG4314
• burdenἐπιβαρέωepibareō · to burdenG1912
• to anyτιςtis · oneG5100
• of you, we proclaimedκηρύσσωkērussō · to preachG2784
• gospelεὐαγγέλιονeuaggelion · gospelG2098
• of Godθεόςtheos · GodG2316

Cross-references for 1 Thessalonians 2:9

• 1 Thessalonians 1:3constantly bearing in mind your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father,
• Acts 18:3and because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them and they were working, for by trade they were tent-makers.
• Acts 20:34You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my own needs and to the men who were with me.
• 1 Corinthians 4:12and we toil, working with our own hands; when we are reviled, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure;
• 1 Corinthians 9:6Or do only Barnabas and I not have a right to refrain from working?
• 2 Corinthians 6:5in beatings, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in hunger,
• 2 Thessalonians 3:7For you yourselves know how you ought to follow our example, because we did not act in an undisciplined manner among you,
• 1 Timothy 4:10For it is for this we labor and strive, because we have fixed our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of believers.
• 1 Thessalonians 3:10as we night and day keep praying most earnestly that we may see your face, and may complete what is lacking in your faith?
• Psalms 32:4For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; My vitality was drained away as with the fever heat of summer. Selah.
• Psalms 88:1O Lord, the God of my salvation, I have cried out by day and in the night before You.
• Jeremiah 9:1Oh that my head were waters And my eyes a fountain of tears, That I might weep day and night For the slain of the daughter of my people!
• Luke 2:37and then as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, serving night and day with fastings and prayers.
• Luke 18:7now, will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry to Him day and night, and will He delay long over them?
• Acts 20:31Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night and day for a period of three years I did not cease to admonish each one with tears.
• 1 Timothy 5:5Now she who is a widow indeed and who has been left alone, has fixed her hope on God and continues in entreaties and prayers night and day.

Commentaries on 1 Thessalonians 2:9

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9Ye remember - our labor and travail - From this it appears that St. Paul spent much more time at Thessalonica than is generally supposed; for the expressions in this verse denote a long continuance of a constantly exercised ministry, interrupted only by manual labor for their own support; labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable to you. Probably Paul and his companions worked with their hands by day, and spent a considerable part of the…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9Ye remember, brethren, our labour - Doubtless in the occupation of a tent-maker; Acts 20:34 note; 1 Corinthians 4:12 note. And travail - see the notes on 2 Corinthians 11:27. The word means “wearisome labor.” For labouring night and day - That is, when he was not engaged in preaching the gospel. He appears to have labored through the week and to have preached on the Sabbath; or if engaged in preaching in the day time during the week, he made it up by…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-12Verses 7-12 Mildness and tenderness greatly recommend religion, and are most conformable to God's gracious dealing with sinners, in and by the gospel. This is the way to win people. We should not only be faithful to our calling as Christians, but in our particular callings and relations. Our great gospel privilege is, that God has called us to his kingdom and glory. The great gospel duty is, that we walk worthy of God. We should live as becomes those…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9Paul and his associates worked with their hands to support themselves while in the city (see Acts 18:1–4; 1 Corinthians 9:12–18). They did this to set an example for the Thessalonians (2 Thessalonians 3:8–9). They also wanted to avoid being an economic burden to them.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 99. labour and travail--The Greek for "labor" means hardship in bearing; that for "travail," hardship in doing; the former, toil with the utmost solicitude; the latter, the being wearied with fatigue [Grotius]. Zanchius refers the former to spiritual (see 1Th 3:5), the latter to manual labor. I would translate, "weariness (so the Greek is translated, 2Co 11:27) and travail" (hard labor, toil). for--omitted in the oldest manuscripts. labouring--Greek…Read the comment

Topics related to 1 Thessalonians 2:9

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Commentaries on 1 Thessalonians 2

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings