2Thess 1:3

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are.

2Thess 2:13; Rom 1:8; 1Cor 1:4; 1Thess 1:2; 1Thess 1:3; 1Thess 3:6; 1Thess 3:9

as is.

Luke 15:32; Phil 1:7; 2Pet 1:13

your.

Job 17:9; Ps 84:7; Ps 92:13; Prov 4:18; Isa 40:29-31; Luke 17:5; John 15:2

Phil 1:9; 1Thess 4:1; 1Thess 4:9; 1Thess 4:10; 1Pet 1:22; 2Pet 1:5-10; 2Pet 3:18

groweth.

The word, [huperauxano ,] from [huper ,] intensive, and [auxano ,] to grow, increase, signifies, as Dr. Clarke remarks, to grow luxuriantly, as a good and healthy tree in a good soil; and, if a fruit tree, bearing an abundance of fruit to compensate the labour of the husbandman.

Faith is one of the seeds of the kingdom: this the Apostle had sowed and watered, and God gave an abundant increase. Their faith was multiplied, and their love abounded: and this was not the case with some distinguished characters only; it was the case with every one of them.

For this the apostle felt himself bound to give continual thanks to God on their behalf, as it was "meet" and right.