For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to my need.
Parallel translations
- KJV For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity.
- BSB For even while I was in Thessalonica, you provided for my needs again and again.
- NKJV For even in Thessalonica you sent aid once and again for my necessities.
- NASB for even in Thessalonica you sent a gift more than once for my needs.
- NLT Even when I was in Thessalonica you sent help more than once.
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Cross-references · 3
- 1 Th 2:9For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.
- Acts 17:1Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.
- 1 Th 2:18because we wanted to come to you — indeed, I, Paul, once and again — but Satan hindered us.
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