1 THESSALONIANS 5:18 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.”
Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you — thanksgiving (eucharistia) in 'all circumstances' (pasin) presupposes that even suffering participates in God's redemptive purpose. Gratitude is not earned by favorable conditions but by trust in God's sovereignty.
Church Fathers on 1 Thessalonians 5:18
Always to give thanks, this is a mark of a philosophic soul. Have you suffered any evil? But if you will, it is no evil. Give thanks to God, and the evil is changed into good. Say thou also as Job said, “Blessed be the name of the Lord forever.” Job 1:21 For tell me, what such great thing have you suffered? Has disease befallen you? Yet it is nothing strange. For our body is mortal, and liable to suffer. Has a want of possessions overtaken you? But these also are things to be…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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