Revised Webster's Bible
1 Thessalonians 3:5
5For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter may have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.
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
3That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed to this. 4For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know. For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter may have tempted you, and our labour be in vain. 6But now when Timothy came from you to us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you: 7Therefore, brethren, by your faith we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress:
Read all of 1 Thessalonians 31 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
- thisτοῦτοtouto · thatG5124
- causeδιάdia · through/because ofG1223
- Iκἀγώkagō kamoi kame · and IG2504
- couldστέγωstegō · to endureG4722
- longerμηκέτιmēketi · never againG3371
- sentπέμπωpempō · to sendG3992
- toεἰςeis · towardG1519
- knowγινώσκωginōskō · to knowG1097
- yourὑμῶνhumōn · of youG5216
- faithπίστιςpistis · faithG4102
- meansμήπωςmēpōs mē pōs · so thatG3381
- meansπωςpōs · howG4458
- tempterπειράζωpeirazō · to test/tempt: temptG3985
- youὑμᾶςhumas · youG5209
- andκαίkai · andG2532
- ourἡμῶνhēmōn · of usG2257
- labourκόποςkopos · laborG2873
- beγίνομαιginomai · to beG1096
- vainκενόςkenos · emptyG2756
Cross-references for 1 Thessalonians 3:5
- 1 Thessalonians 3:1Therefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone;
- 1 Thessalonians 3:2And sent Timothy, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellow-labourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith:
- Acts 15:36And some days after Paul said to Barnabas, Let us go again and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how they do.
- 2 Corinthians 7:5For, when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.
- Matthew 4:3And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou art the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
- 1 Corinthians 7:5Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan may not tempt you for your lack of self-control.
- 2 Corinthians 2:11Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
- 2 Corinthians 11:2For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
- Galatians 1:6I marvel that ye are so soon turning from him that called you into the grace of Christ to another gospel:
- Ephesians 4:14That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, by which they lie in wait to deceive;
- James 1:13Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted by God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
- 1 Thessalonians 2:1For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance to you, that it was not in vain:
- Isaiah 49:4Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.
- Galatians 2:2And I went by revelation, and communicated to them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them who were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.
- Galatians 4:11I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
- Philippians 2:16Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured 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
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- 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
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