King James Version
1 Thessalonians 3
1 Thessalonians in the King James Version. Each verse number opens that verse. Study, in the row above the verse, opens the Greek, the notes, the other translations, and the connections.
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Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone; -
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And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith: -
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That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto. -
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For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know. -
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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. -
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But now when Timotheus came from you unto 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: -
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Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith: -
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For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord. -
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For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God; - Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
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Translation Note
Αὐτὸς δὲ ὁ θεὸς καὶ πατὴρ ἡμῶν καὶ ὁ κύριος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦς κατευθύναι. κατευθύναι is κατευθύνω, aorist active optative, 3rd person singular, “may he direct.” Two subjects, God our Father and our Lord Jesus, take that one verb. The Textus Receptus adds Χριστός.
The King James reads “God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.” A singular optative with a compound subject is ordinary Greek when the subjects are viewed as one in the action. It is not, by itself, a proof that the Father and the Son are one person. The New World Translation (Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Bible) also uses one verb, “make a way.”
King James Version. Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.
New World Translation (Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Bible), this verse. “Now may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus make a way for us to come to you.” Watchtower Online Library
Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you. - And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
- To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.
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