1 THESSALONIANS 1:3 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;”
Remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ — the triad of Christian virtues (faith, love, hope) now manifest as active, costly works. The work is not merit-earning but fruit-bearing; faith produces labor, love produces endurance, and hope produces perseverance through affliction. These are not abstract qualities but the visible evidence of the gospel's transformative power.
Church Fathers on 1 Thessalonians 1:3
Wherefore then, when writing to the Ephesians, and having Timothy with him, did he not include him with himself (in his salutation), known as he was to them and admired, for he says, “You know the proof of him, that as a child serves the father, so he served with me in the Gospel” Philippians 2:22; and again, “I have no man like-minded who will care truly for your state” Philippians 2:20; but here he does associate him with himself? It seems to me, that he was about to send…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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