1 Thessalonians 3:5

1 Thessalonians 3:5 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.
• New International Version (NIV)For this reason, when I could stand it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith. I was afraid that in some way the tempter had tempted you and that our labors might have been in vain.
• English Standard Version (ESV)For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to learn about your faith, for fear that somehow the tempter had tempted you and our labor would be in vain.
• New King James Version (NKJV)For this reason, when I could no longer endure it, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor might be in vain.

Context of 1 Thessalonians 3:5

3so that no one would be disturbed by these afflictions; for you yourselves know that we have been destined for this. 4For indeed when we were with you, we kept telling you in advance that we were going to suffer affliction; and so it came to pass, as you know. For this reason, when I could endure it no longer, I also sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter might have tempted you, and our labor would be in vain. 6But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought us good news of your faith and love, and that you always think kindly of us, longing to see us just as we also long to see you, 7for this reason, brethren, in all our distress and affliction we were comforted about you through your faith;

1 Thessalonians 3:5 word by word

διὰ τοῦτο κἀγὼ μηκέτι στέγων ἔπεμψα εἰς τὸ γνῶναι τὴν πίστιν ὑμῶν, μή πως ἐπείρασεν ὑμᾶς ὁ πειράζων καὶ εἰς κενὸν γένηται ὁ κόπος ἡμῶν.Read the interlinear

• For thisοὗτοςhoutos houtoi hautē hautai · this/he/she/itG3778
• reasonδιάdia · through/because ofG1223
• when I could endureστέγωstegō · to endureG4722
• noμηκέτιmēketi · never againG3371
• I alsoκαίkai · andG2532
• sentπέμπωpempō · to sendG3992
• findγινώσκωginōskō · to knowG1097
• out about your faithπίστιςpistis · faithG4102
• for fearμήπωςmēpōs mē pōs · so thatG3381
• the tempterπειράζωpeirazō · to test/tempt: temptG3985
• our laborκόποςkopos · laborG2873
• would be in vainκενόςkenos · emptyG2756

Cross-references for 1 Thessalonians 3:5

• 1 Thessalonians 3:1Therefore when we could endure it no longer, we thought it best to be left behind at Athens alone,
• 1 Thessalonians 3:2and we sent Timothy, our brother and God’s fellow worker in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you as to your faith,
• Acts 15:36After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us return and visit the brethren in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and see how they are.”
• 2 Corinthians 7:5For even when we came into Macedonia our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted on every side: conflicts without, fears within.
• Matthew 4:3And the tempter came and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”
• 1 Corinthians 7:5Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
• 2 Corinthians 2:11so that no advantage would be taken of us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.
• 2 Corinthians 11:2For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy; for I betrothed you to one husband, so that to Christ I might present you as a pure virgin.
• Galatians 1:6I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different gospel;
• Ephesians 4:14As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming;
• James 1:13Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone.
• 1 Thessalonians 2:1For you yourselves know, brethren, that our coming to you was not in vain,
• Isaiah 49:4But I said, “I have toiled in vain, I have spent My strength for nothing and vanity; Yet surely the justice due to Me is with the Lord, And My reward with My God.”
• Galatians 2:2It was because of a revelation that I went up; and I submitted to them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but I did so in private to those who were of reputation, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.
• Galatians 4:11I fear for you, that perhaps I have labored over you in vain.
• Philippians 2:16holding fast the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I will have reason to glory because I did not run in vain nor toil in vain.

Commentaries on 1 Thessalonians 3:5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5For this cause - Knowing that you would be persecuted, and knowing that your apostasy was possible, I sent to know your faith - whether you continued steadfast in the truth, lest you might have been tempted by Satan to consult your present ease, and abandon the Gospel, for which you suffered persecution.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5For this cause - Since I knew that you were so liable to be persecuted, and since I feared that some might be turned from the truth by this opposition. When I could no longer forbear - See the notes at 1 Thessalonians 3:1. I sent to know your faith - That is, your fidelity. or your steadfastness in the gospel. Lest by some means - Either by allurements to apostasy, set before you by your former pagan friends; or by the arts of false teachers; or by the…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5Paul had concern that Satan, the tempter, had weakened the Thessalonians’ faith (Mark 1:13; 1 Corinthians 7:5; 1 Thessalonians 3:2, 6, 8). He was checking to make sure his efforts among them were not useless (Galatians 2:2; Philippians 2:16).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. For this cause--Because I know of your "tribulation" having actually begun (1Th 3:4). when I--Greek, "when I also (as well as Timothy, who, Paul delicately implies, was equally anxious respecting them, compare "we," 1Th 3:1), could no longer contain myself (endure the suspense)." I sent--Paul was the actual sender; hence the "I" here: Paul, Silas, and Timothy himself had agreed on the mission already, before Paul went to Athens: hence the "we," (see on…Read the comment

Topics related to 1 Thessalonians 3:5

• Love
• Satan
• Temptation

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Commentaries on 1 Thessalonians 3

• 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
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings