Chapter Fourteen: Giving Thanks Always
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: GIVING THANKS ALWAYS
[1] There is a discussion among commentators as to whether the wording of the King James Version “all things work together for good” in which the all things is the subject of the verb work or whether as in the NIV translation in which the subject is God—“in all things God works”—is the preferred wording. Whichever wording we prefer, the result is the same. If all things work together for our good it is because God has caused them to do so. In fact, the New American Standard Bible translates as follows: “God causes all things to work together for good.”
[2] Alexander Carson, The History of Providence (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, n.d.), 168–169.