1 Tessalonicenses 3:8

8 pois agora vivemos, visto que vocês estão firmes no Senhor.

1 Tessalonicenses 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 Tessalonicenses 3:8 In-Context

6 Agora, porém, Timóteo acaba de chegar da parte de vocês, dando-nos boas notícias a respeito da fé e do amor que vocês têm. Ele nos falou que vocês sempre guardam boas recordações de nós, desejando ver-nos, assim como nós queremos vê-los.

7 Por isso, irmãos, em toda a nossa necessidade e tribulação ficamos animados quando soubemos da sua fé;

8 pois agora vivemos, visto que vocês estão firmes no Senhor.

9 Como podemos ser suficientemente gratos a Deus por vocês, por toda a alegria que temos diante dele por causa de vocês?

10 Noite e dia insistimos em orar para que possamos vê-los pessoalmente e suprir o que falta à sua fé.