1st Thessalonians Chapter 4 verse 2 Holy Bible
For ye know what charge we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
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Because you have in mind the orders we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
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For ye know what charges we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
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For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
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For you know what charge we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
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for ye have known what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - For ye know; appealing to their memory in confirmation of what he had said. What commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus; or, through the Lord Jesus; that is, not merely by his authority, but by means of him, so that these commandments did not proceed from Paul, but from the Lord Jesus himself. We have here, and indeed in this chapter throughout, an assertion of the inspiration of the apostle: the commandments which he gave to the Thessalonians were the commandments of the Lord Jesus.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) For ye know.--He calls on the Thessalonians' memory to support his statement, "ye received;" at the same time awakening their interest to catch the special point next to come, by laying stress on "what commandments."By the Lord Jesus.--Not as if the Lord were the person who took the commandments from St. Paul to the Thessalonians, but the person by means of whose inspiration St. Paul was enabled to give such commandments.