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Concluding Thanksgiving and Prayer. [a]What thanksgiving, then, can we render to God for you, for all the joy we feel on your account before our God?

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  1. 3:9–10 The tension between Paul’s optimism concerning the Thessalonians’ faith and his worries about their perseverance remains unresolved. Perhaps this is accounted for not only by the continuing harassment but also by the shortness of his own stay in Thessalonica (even if that were over twice as long as the conventional three weeks that Luke assigns to it, Acts 17:2).

How can we thank God enough for you(A) in return for all the joy we have in the presence of our God because of you?(B)

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