Thanksgiving and Prayer

We ought always to thank God for you,(A) brothers and sisters,[a] and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing.(B) Therefore, among God’s churches we boast(C) about your perseverance and faith(D) in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Thessalonians 1:3 The Greek word for brothers and sisters (adelphoi) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God’s family; also in 2:1, 13, 15; 3:1, 6, 13.

We ought opheilō always pantote to thank eucharisteō · ho God theos for peri you hymeis, brothers adelphos, as kathōs is eimi fitting axios, because hoti your hymeis faith pistis is growing abundantly hyperauxanō, · ho and kai the ho love agapē of each hekastos one heis of you hymeis for eis one another allēlōn is increasing pleonazō, so that hōste we hēmeis ourselves autos boast enkauchaomai about en you hymeis in en the ho churches ekklēsia of ho God theos for hyper · ho your hymeis patience hypomonē and kai faith pistis in en all pas the ho persecutions diōgmos and kai · ho afflictions thlipsis that hos you are enduring anechōmai.

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