1st Thessalonians Chapter 3 verse 9 Holy Bible
For what thanksgiving can we render again unto God for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;
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For how great is the praise which we give to God for you, and how great the joy with which we are glad because of you before our God;
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For what thanksgiving can we render to God for you, for all the joy wherewith we rejoice on account of you before our God,
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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;
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For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God;
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for what thanks are we able to recompense to God for you, for all the joy with which we do joy because of you in the presence of our God?
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1st Thessalonians 3 : 9 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 9. - For; assigning the reason of the declaration, "now we live." What thanks can we render to God again for you. As their steadfastness in the faith was owing to God's grace, thanks was to be rendered to God on their behalf. For all the joy; joy in all its fullness (comp. James 1:2, "Count it all joy"). Wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God. Giving prominence to the purity of their joy.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(9) For what thanks can we render.--An apology for the enthusiastic expressions used in the three foregoing verses. "I may call it a gospel, a balm for all anxieties, a new life, for what mode of thanksgiving could be deemed extravagant in such a case of joy?"Before our God.--As in 1Thessalonians 1:3, the occasion on which the joy and thankfulness bursts out is "in prayer;" perhaps, in connection with thanksgiving, especially at the great Eucharistic Thanksgiving (1Corinthians 14:16), when he "stood before the Lord in a special manner (Acts 13:2; comp. Leviticus 1:3; Leviticus 1:11; Leviticus 3:1, et al). . . .
