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NASB | 1 Thessalonians 3:8 for now we really live, if you stand firm in the Lord. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Thessalonians 3:8 because now we really live [in spite of everything], if you stand firm in the Lord. |
Bible Question: How does another's firm stand in the Lord enable us to "really live"? What is the priciple behind this? |
Bible Answer: Hi, Momma... More John Gill is helpful here (as well as reading this passage in context). In Him, Doc For now we live,.... Before they were dead men, lifeless, disconsolate, dispirited, carrying about with them the dying of the Lord Jesus, and death working in them, and they, as it were, under the sentence of that, being killed all the day long for Christ's sake; but now, upon this news, in the midst of all their sore trials and troubles, their spirits revived, and they became alive and cheerful; see Psa_22:26, it was like life from the dead unto them: if ye stand fast in the Lord: or "our Lord", as the Syriac and Ethiopic versions read; that is, "in the faith of the Lord", as the Arabic version renders it: they were in the Lord secretly by electing grace, and openly by regenerating grace, and they abode in him; and by persevering grace, they were rooted and built up in Christ, and established in the faith of him, of his person, office, and grace; they were steady in the exercise of grace upon him, and stood fast in the liberty wherewith he had made them free, and continued steadfastly in the doctrines and ordinances of the Gospel; for the "if" here is not expressive of doubting, but of reasoning, "seeing ye stand fast in the Lord"; of which they were assured by Timothy: and this gave them fresh spirit and life amidst the deaths in which they often were. |
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