8 For now we really live, since you are standing firm in the Lord.
8 For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.
8 For now we live, if you are standing fast in the Lord.
8 Knowing that your faith is alive keeps us alive.
8 For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.
8 It gives us new life to know that you are standing firm in the Lord.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on 1 Thessalonians 3:8
Commentary on 1 Thessalonians 3:6-10
(Read 1 Thessalonians 3:6-10)
Thankfulness to God is very imperfect in the present state; but one great end of the ministry of the word is to help faith forward. That which was the instrument to obtain faith, is also the means of increasing and confirming it, namely, the ordinances of God; and as faith cometh by hearing, so it is confirmed by hearing also.