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1Th 3:5 King James For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
For this cause--Because I know of your "tribulation" having actually begun (Th1 3:4).

when I--Greek, "when I also (as well as Timothy, who, Paul delicately implies, was equally anxious respecting them, compare "we," Th1 3:1), could no longer contain myself (endure the suspense)."

I sent--Paul was the actual sender; hence the "I" here: Paul, Silas, and Timothy himself had agreed on the mission already, before Paul went to Athens: hence the "we," (see on Th1 3:1).

to know--to learn the state of your faith, whether it stood the trial (Col 4:8).

lest . . . have tempted . . . and . . . be--The indicative is used in the former sentence, the subjunctive in the latter. Translate therefore, "To know . . . whether haply the tempter have tempted you (the indicative implying that he supposed such was the case), and lest (in that case) our labor may prove to be in vain" (compare Gal 4:11). Our labor in preaching would in that case be vain, so far as ye are concerned, but not as concerns us in so far as we have sincerely labored (Isa 49:4; Co1 3:8).
 
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8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
4 Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.
11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
8 Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might know your estate, and comfort your hearts;
1 Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone;
1 Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone;
4 For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know.
11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
9 Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?
10 Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
11 But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
1 Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone;
16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
2 And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.
1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.