1 Thessalonians 3:9

WEB

⁹For what thanksgiving can we give again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God,

KJV

⁹For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;

BSB

⁹How can we adequately thank God for you in return for our great joy over you in His presence?

FBV

⁹As we go into the presence of our God, how can we ever thank God enough for you because of all the joy you bring to us?

Related Resources

Exhortation to a Faithful Church (1 Thessalonians 3-4) - Grace to You
We Live If You Stand in Faith: 1 Thessalonians 3:6–10, Part 1 - Desiring God

Extra References

Psalms 96:12-13

¹²Let the field and all that is in it exult! Then all the trees of the woods shall sing for joy ¹³before the LORD; for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, the peoples with his truth.

2 Corinthians 9:15

¹⁵Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!

1 Thessalonians 1:2-3

²We always give thanks to God for all of you, mentioning you in our prayers, ³remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

Psalms 71:14-15

¹⁴But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise. ¹⁵My mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your salvation all day, though I don’t know its full measure.

1 Thessalonians 3:7-8

⁷For this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith. ⁸For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.

2 Samuel 7:18-20

¹⁸Then David the king went in and sat before the LORD; and he said, “Who am I, Lord^[+] GOD, and what is my house, that you have brought me this far? ¹⁹This was yet a small thing in your eyes, Lord GOD, but you have spoken also of your servant’s house for a great while to come; and this among men, Lord GOD! ²⁰What more can David say to you? For you know your servant, Lord GOD.

Deuteronomy 12:18

¹⁸but you shall eat them before the LORD your God in the place which the LORD your God shall choose: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates. You shall rejoice before the LORD your God in all that you put your hand to.

1 Thessalonians 2:19

¹⁹For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus^[+] at his coming?

Deuteronomy 12:2

²You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods: on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

Deuteronomy 16:11

¹¹You shall rejoice before the LORD your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, in the place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.