{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/sco/th1001.htm","path":"bib/cmt/sco/th1001.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/sco/th1001.htm","text":"The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917]\nwork of faith\nLiterally, operative faith, and laborious love, and hope-filled patience.\nhow ye turned\nThe tenses of the believer's life here indicated are logical and give the true order. They occur also in (Th1 1:3).\nThe \"work of faith\" is to \"turn to God from idols\";\n(compare (Joh 6:28); (Joh 6:29).\nThe \"labour of love\" is to \"serve the living and true God\"; and\nThe \"patience of hope\" is to \"wait for his Son from heaven\".\n(compare (Mat 24:42); (Mat 25:13); (Luk 12:36-48); (Act 1:11); (Phi 3:20); (Phi 3:21).\nPaul repeats this threefold sequence in (Tit 2:11-13).","title":"The Scofield Bible Commentary: 1 Thessalonians: 1 Thessalonians Chapter 1","type":"page"}