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Text -- 1 Thessalonians 5:25 (NET)

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5:25 Brothers and sisters, pray for us too.
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Robertson: 1Th 5:25 - -- Pray for us ( proseuchesthe ̣kaǐ peri hēmōn ). He has made his prayer for them. He adds this "human touch"(Frame) and pleads for the prayers o...

Pray for us ( proseuchesthe ̣kaǐ peri hēmōn ).

He has made his prayer for them. He adds this "human touch"(Frame) and pleads for the prayers of his converts (2Th 3:1; Col 4:2.). Probably kai also is genuine (B D).

JFB: 1Th 5:25 - -- Some oldest manuscripts read, "Pray ye also for (literally, 'concerning') us"; make us and our work the subject of your prayers, even as we have been ...

Some oldest manuscripts read, "Pray ye also for (literally, 'concerning') us"; make us and our work the subject of your prayers, even as we have been just praying for you (1Th 5:23). Others omit the "also." The clergy need much the prayers of their flocks. Paul makes the same request in the Epistles to Romans, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Philemon, and in Second Corinthians; not so in the Epistles to Timothy and Titus, whose intercessions, as his spiritual sons, he was already sure of; nor in the Epistles, I Corinthians, and Galatians, as these Epistles abound in rebuke.

Clarke: 1Th 5:25 - -- Pray for me - Even apostles, while acting under an extraordinary mission, and enjoying the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, felt the necessity of the ...

Pray for me - Even apostles, while acting under an extraordinary mission, and enjoying the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, felt the necessity of the prayers of the faithful. God requires that his people should pray for his ministers; and it is not to be wondered at, if they who pray not for their preachers should receive no benefit from their teaching. How can they expect God to send a message by him, for whom they, who are the most interested, have not prayed? If the grace and Spirit of Christ be not worth the most earnest prayers which a man can offer, they, and the heaven to which they lead, are not worth having.

TSK: 1Th 5:25 - -- Rom 15:30; 2Co 1:11; Eph 6:18-20; Phi 1:19; Col 4:3; 2Th 3:1-3; Phm 1:22; Heb 13:18, Heb 13:19

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Barnes: 1Th 5:25 - -- Brethren, pray for us - A request which the apostle often makes; notes on Heb 13:18. He was a man of like passions as others: liable to the sam...

Brethren, pray for us - A request which the apostle often makes; notes on Heb 13:18. He was a man of like passions as others: liable to the same temptations; engaged in an arduous work; often called to meet with opposition, and exposed to peril and want, and he especially needed the prayers of the people of God. A minister, surrounded as he is by temptations, is in great danger if he has not the prayers of his people. Without those prayers, he will be likely to accomplish little in the cause of his Master. His own devotions in the sanctuary will be formal and frigid, and the word which he preaches will be likely to come from a cold and heavy heart, and to fall also on cold and heavy hearts. There is no way in which a people can better advance the cause of piety in their own hearts, than by praying much for their minister.

Poole: 1Th 5:25 - -- The apostle a little before had prayed for them, now he begs prayers of them, as he doth of other churches, Rom 15:30 Col 4:3 . Ministers and people...

The apostle a little before had prayed for them, now he begs prayers of them, as he doth of other churches, Rom 15:30 Col 4:3 . Ministers and people need each others’ prayers, and it is a mutual duty they owe to one another. Ministers are obliged by special office, people by common duty, with respect to the success of the gospel in general, 2Th 3:1 , and their own edification by their labours. The apostle, as he did not think it below him to call these Thessalonians brethren, so neither to beg their prayers. Those that stand highest in the church may stand in need of the meanest and lowest; the head cannot say to the foot, I have no need of thee. Those that preach not the gospel, may yet promote it by their prayers; yet this gives no warrant to beg the prayers of saints departed, for which we have no precept, promise, or example, as we have for the other; and what is without faith is sin. It is at the best doubtful whether they know our state below, or can hear us when we pray; and certainly God never required us to pray upon such uncertainties, and it cannot be in faith.

Gill: 1Th 5:25 - -- Brethren, pray for us. Which is added with great beauty and propriety, after the apostle had so earnestly and affectionately prayed for them; and this...

Brethren, pray for us. Which is added with great beauty and propriety, after the apostle had so earnestly and affectionately prayed for them; and this is directed, not to the pastors of the church only, but to all the members of it, whom the apostle styles "brethren" in a spiritual relation, as he often does; and of whom he requests, that they would pray for him, and the rest of his fellow ministers and labourers in the word, that God would more and more qualify and fit them for their work, assist in private studies and meditations, give them freedom of thought, liberty of expression, and a door of utterance, and follow their ministrations with a divine blessing and success, and deliver them out of the hands of unreasonable men; See Gill on Heb 13:18.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: 1Th 5:25 Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:4.

Geneva Bible: 1Th 5:25 ( 15 ) Brethren, pray for us. ( 15 ) The last part of the epistle, in which with most authoritative charge he commends both himself and this epistle ...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: 1Th 5:1-28 - --1 He proceeds in the former description of Christ's coming to judgment;16 and gives divers precepts;23 and so concludes the epistle.

MHCC: 1Th 5:23-28 - --The apostle prays that they might be sanctified more perfectly, for the best are sanctified but in part while in this world; therefore we should pray ...

Matthew Henry: 1Th 5:23-28 - -- In these words, which conclude this epistle, observe, I. Paul's prayer for them, 1Th 5:23. He had told them, in the beginning of this epistle, that ...

Barclay: 1Th 5:23-28 - --At the end of his letter Paul commends his friends to God in body, soul and spirit. But there is one very lovely saying here. "Brothers," said Pau...

Constable: 1Th 5:25-28 - --IV. CONCLUSION 5:25-28 Paul added this final postscript to encourage three more actions and to stress one basic attitude. 5:25 Paul believed that inte...

College: 1Th 5:1-28 - --1 THESSALONIANS 5 2. The Suddenness of the Lord's Return (5:1-11) 1 Now, brothers, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, 2 for you k...

McGarvey: 1Th 5:25 - --Brethren, pray for us . [It was Paul's habit to ask for the prayers of those to whom he wrote (Rom 15:30 ; 2Co 1:11 ; Eph 6:19 ; Col 4:3 ; 2Th 3:1). C...

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Introduction / Outline

Robertson: 1 Thessalonians (Book Introduction) First Thessalonians From Corinth a.d. 50-51 By Way of Introduction We cannot say that this is Paul’s first letter to a church, for in 2Th_2:2 h...

JFB: 1 Thessalonians (Book Introduction) The AUTHENTICITY of this Epistle is attested by IRENÆUS [Against Heresies, 5.6.1], quoting 1Th 5:23; CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA [The Instructor, 1.88], qu...

JFB: 1 Thessalonians (Outline) ADDRESS: SALUTATION: HIS PRAYERFUL THANKSGIVING FOR THEIR FAITH, HOPE, AND LOVE. THEIR FIRST RECEPTION OF THE GOSPEL, AND THEIR GOOD INFLUENCE ON ALL...

TSK: 1 Thessalonians 5 (Chapter Introduction) Overview 1Th 5:1, He proceeds in the former description of Christ’s coming to judgment; 1Th 5:16, and gives divers precepts; 1Th 5:23, and so co...

Poole: 1 Thessalonians 5 (Chapter Introduction) THESSALONIANS CHAPTER 5

MHCC: 1 Thessalonians (Book Introduction) This epistle is generally considered to have been the first of those written by St. Paul. The occasion seems to have been the good report of the stedf...

MHCC: 1 Thessalonians 5 (Chapter Introduction) (1Th 5:1-11) The apostle exhorts to be always ready for the coming of Christ to judgment, which will be with suddenness and surprise. (1Th 5:12-22) H...

Matthew Henry: 1 Thessalonians (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The First Epistle of st. Paul to the Thessalonians Thessalonica was formerly the metropolis of Macedoni...

Matthew Henry: 1 Thessalonians 5 (Chapter Introduction) The apostle, having spoken in the end of the foregoing chapter concerning the resurrection, and the second coming of Christ, proceeds to speak conc...

Barclay: 1 Thessalonians (Book Introduction) A GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE LETTERS OF PAUL The Letters Of Paul There is no more interesting body of documents in the New Testament than the letter...

Barclay: 1 Thessalonians 5 (Chapter Introduction) Like A Thief In The Night (1Th_5:1-11) Advice To A Church (1Th_5:12-22) The Grace Of Christ Be With You (1Th_5:23-28)

Constable: 1 Thessalonians (Book Introduction) Introduction Historical background Thessalonica was an important city. Cassander, the ...

Constable: 1 Thessalonians (Outline)

Constable: 1 Thessalonians 1 Thessalonians Bibliography Askwith, E. H. "I' and We' in the Thesalonian Epistles." Expositor. Series 8:1 (19...

Haydock: 1 Thessalonians (Book Introduction) THE FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL, THE APOSTLE, TO THE THESSALONIANS. INTRODUCTION. St. Paul having preached with success at Thessalonica, the chi...

Gill: 1 Thessalonians (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO 1 THESSALONIANS Thessalonica was a very large, populous, and flourishing city, it was "liberae conditionis", as Pliny says a, a fre...

Gill: 1 Thessalonians 5 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO 1 THESSALONIANS 5 In this chapter the apostle discourses concerning the suddenness of Christ's coming, and the necessity of sobriet...

College: 1 Thessalonians (Book Introduction) FOREWORD This commentary has been produced through a full schedule of college and seminary teaching and church-based ministry. In the current climate...

College: 1 Thessalonians (Outline) OUTLINE I. GREETING - 1:1 II. THANKSGIVING - 1:2-10 A. The Initial Thanksgiving - 1:2-5 1. Paul's Constant Prayers for the Readers - 1:2 ...

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