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So[a] in all our distress and affliction, we were reassured about you, brothers and sisters,[b] through your faith. For now we are alive again,[c] if you stand firm in the Lord. For how can we thank God enough for you,[d] for all the joy we feel[e] because of you before our God?

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Thessalonians 3:7 tn Or “for this reason.”
  2. 1 Thessalonians 3:7 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:4.
  3. 1 Thessalonians 3:8 tn Grk “because now we live,” in comparison with his feelings of dread in not knowing how they were doing (cf. 2:17-3:5).
  4. 1 Thessalonians 3:9 tn Grk “what thanks can we render to God about you.”
  5. 1 Thessalonians 3:9 tn Grk “all the joy with which we rejoice.”