友人への感謝に関する13の聖句

The Bible’s plainest words of gratitude for friends are in Paul’s letters, several of which open by thanking God for the people he is writing to. Philippians 1:3 is one: “I thank my God in all my remembrance of you.” The same thanks appears at 1 Thessalonians 1:2-3, Philemon 1:4 and 2 Timothy 1:3. Philippians 4:14 commends a church for sharing Paul’s trouble, Romans 16:3-4 thanks Prisca and Aquila by name, and 2 Timothy 1:16-17 remembers Onesiphorus, who came looking…