1 Tesalonicenses 3:8

8 Nos reaviva saber que están firmes en el Señor.

1 Tesalonicenses 3:8 Meaning and Commentary

1 Thessalonians 3:8

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 ( Psalms 22:26 ) ( Isaiah 55:3 ) , 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.

1 Tesalonicenses 3:8 In-Context

6 Pero ahora Timoteo acaba de regresar y nos trajo buenas noticias acerca de la fe y el amor de ustedes. Nos contó que siempre recuerdan nuestra visita con alegría y que desean vernos tanto como nosotros deseamos verlos a ustedes.

7 Así que, amados hermanos, en medio de nuestras dificultades y sufrimientos hemos sido muy animados porque han permanecido firmes en su fe.

8 Nos reaviva saber que están firmes en el Señor.

9 ¡Cuánto le agradecemos a Dios por ustedes! Gracias a ustedes tenemos gran alegría cuando entramos en la presencia de Dios.

10 Día y noche oramos con fervor por ustedes, pidiéndole a Dios que nos permita volver a verlos y completar lo que falte en su fe.