Reference: Thessalonians, The Epistles to the
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FIRST EPISTLE. Authenticity. Ignatius, ad Polycarp 1, Ephesians 10, says "pray without ceasing" (1Th 5:17); so Polycarp, and Philippians 4. This epistle is in the Muratorian Canon, that of Marcion, and Laodicea, A.D. 364. Irenaeus (adv. Haer. 5:6, section 1) quotes 1Th 5:23; Clement of Alexandria (Paed. 1:88) quotes 1Th 2:7; Tertullian (de Resurr. Carnis 24) quotes 1Th 1:9-10; 5:1; Caius in Eusebius (Ecclesiastes Hist.) vi. 20, Origen (contra Celsus 3), also confirm it. Tertullian quotes this epistle 20 times.
AIM. After imprisonment and scourging at Philippi, Paul (1Th 2:2) passed on to Thessalonica. (See THESSALONICA.) With Silas (Ac 16:3; 17:1-9,14) and Timotheus he founded the church there (1Th 1:1; 3:1-6; 2Th 1:1). The Jews rejected the gospel when preached for three successive sabbaths; a few however "believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas, and of the devout (i.e. proselytes to Judaism) Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few." Amidst trials (1Th 1:6; 2:13) from their own countrymen and from the Jews (1Th 2:14-16) the converts "received the word with joy of the Holy Spirit."
His stay at Thessalonica was probably longer than the three weeks recorded in Ac 17:2, for some time is implied in his labouring there for support (1Th 2:9; 2Th 3:8), in his receiving supplies there more than once from Philippi (Php 4:16), in his receiving many converts from the Gentiles (1Th 1:9, and, according to the Alexandrinus manuscript of Ac 17:4, though not the Sinaiticus and Vaticanus manuscripts, "of the devout (and) of the Greeks a great multitude"), and in his appointing ministers. He probably (compare Ac 13:46; 18:6-7; 19:8-9) preached first to the Jews; then, when they rejected the message, to the Gentiles. Thenceforth he held the church assemblies in the house of Jason (Ac 17:5), his "kinsman" (Ro 16:21). His tender love and gentleness, like that of "a nurse cherishing children," disinterestedness, devotion even unto death, and zeal for individual souls, beautifully appear in 1Th 1:5; 2:1-11.
He laboured here with his own hands to further the gospel by giving an example to the idle. Contributions from Philippi also helped him at, Thessalonica (Php 4:15-16). Christ's coming and kingdom were his chief topic (1Th 1:10; 2:12,19; 3:13; 4:13-18; 5:1-11,23-24), that the Thessalonians should walk worthy of it (1Th 4:1). It is an undesigned coincidence confirming the authenticity of the history and of the epistles that the very charge which Jason's assailants brought against the brethren was "these do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus" (Ac 17:5-9). So in Jesus' own case they perverted His doctrine of His coming kingdom into a charge of treason against Caesar. So also the doctrine of the resurrection is prominent both in Luke's history (Ac 17:3) and in Paul's independent epistle (1Th 1:10; 4:14-16).
Paul and Silas had to flee by night to Berea; but the church and ministers had been constituted, and the Thessalonians became missionaries virtually themselves (for which the city's commerce gave facilities) both by word and by example, the report of which had reached Macedonia where Paul had been, and Achaia where he now was, at Corinth (1Th 1:7-8). From Berea Paul, after having planted a Scripture-loving church. was obliged to flee by the Thessalonian Jews who followed him there Timothy (who apparently came to Berea separately from Paul and Silas; compare Ac 17:10 with Ac 17:14) and Silas remained there still, when Paul proceeded by sea to Athens. While at Athens Paul longed to visit the Thessalonians again, and see their spiritual state, and "perfect that which was lacking in their faith" (1Th 3:10); but "Satan (through the instrumentality of the Thessalonian Jews probably, Joh 13:27) hindered" him (1Th 2:18; Ac 17:13).
He therefore sent Timothy, who followed him apparently to Athens from Berea (Ac 17:15), and immediately on his arrival at Athens to Thessalonica (1Th 3:1). Much as he would have desired Timothy's help against his Athenian opponents, he determined to forego it for the sake of the Thessalonian church. Silas does not appear to have come to Paul at Athens at all, though Paul had desired him and Timothy to "come to him with all speed" (Ac 17:15), but with Timothy (who from Thessalonica called for him at Berea) joined Paul at Corinth first (Ac 18:1,5; "when Silas and Timothy were come from Macedonia".) The epistle mentions Timothy at Athens (1Th 3:12), but not Silas. Timothy "brought good tidings of the Thessalonian church's faith and love, and good remembrance of Paul, and desire to see him" as he desired to see them (1Th 3:6-10). Their defect was the exclusive dwelling of some on Christ's kingdom to such a degree as to neglect present duties (1Th 4:11-12).
Some who had lost relatives by death doubted whether they who died before Christ's coming would share with those found alive, in His kingdom then to be revealed. Some had been quarrelsome and revengeful (1Th 5:13,15); others had even relapsed into pagan lusts, fornication, and adultery (1Th 4:3-10). Some were insubordinate toward ministers, and slighted the manifestations of the Spirit in those possessing His gifts as "prophesyings" (1Th 5:12-13,19-20). To correct these defects, to praise their graces, and to testify his love, is Paul's aim in this epistle. The place of writing was Corinth, where Timothy, with Silas, rejoined Paul (Ac 18:5).
THE TIME OF WRITING. Soon after Timothy's arrival with tidings of their state (1Th 2:17; 3:6), in the autumn A.D. 52. Paul wrote in the winter of that year, or else early in A.D. 53 at the beginning of his stay of one year and a half at Corinth (Ac 18:11). (Timothy had been sent probably from Athens to inquire: 1Th 3:1-2). For it was written not long after the conversion of the Thessalonians (1Th 1:8-9), while Paul could speak of himself as only "taken from them for a short season" (1Th 2:17). Hence, it was first in date of all Paul's extant epistles. Paul, Silas, and Timothy, the three founders of the Thessalonion church, stand at its head in the inscription. "We" is written everywhere except in 1Th 2:18; 3:5; 5:27; "we" is the true reading in 1Th 4:13. The KJV "I" in 1Th 4:9; 5:1-23, is not in the original.
STYLE. Calm, practical, and uncontroversial, because he takes for granted the doctrinal truths, which were not yet controverted. Simple, less intense, and less marked by sudden turns of thought.
GROUPING OF PAUL'S EPISTLES. Impassioned argument and vehement feeling were reserved for subsequent epistles, which had to deal with fundamental errors of doctrine, as Judaizing legalism. The second group of epistles, Corinthians, Romans, and Galatians, five years later, in opposition to the latter, unfold the cardinal doctrines of grace and justification by faith. Still later, the epistles from his Roman prison, Ephesians, Colossians, and Philippians confirm the same. Last of all, the pastoral epistles suit the church's developed ecclesiastical constitution, and direct as to bishops and deacons, and correct abuses and errors of later growth. His opponents in 1 Thessalonians are Jews (1Th 2:16); but in the second group Judaizing Christians. The gospel preached in the epistles to the Thessalonians is that of Christ's coming kingdom rather than the cross; for the former best met the Messianic hopes which won Jewish believers to the Christian faith; it also especially comforted the infant church under trials, and in the sacrifice of worldly pleasure and gain. The healthy condition of all the Macedonian churches accounts for the close resemblance between this epistle and the epistle to Philippians, written ten years subsequently. Hence in both he begins with warm commendations, and drops the official title of "apostle" in the salutation.
DIVISION. The same prayer ("may God Himself," etc.) recurring at 1Th 3:11-13, and 1Th 5:24, (translated "may the God of peace Himself," etc.,) apparently marks the close of the two divisions.
PERSONS ADDRESSED. The prevalence of the Gentile element in them appears from the entire absence of quotations from the Old Testament in these two epistles; also from the address being to pe
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And after the small morsel then came Satan into him. Then says Jesus to him, What thou doest, do quickly.
And Paul and Barnabas speaking freely, said, To you was it first necessary for the word of God to be spoken: but since ye reject it, and judge yourselves not worthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the nations.
Him Paul wished to go forth with him; and having taken, he circumcised him, on account of the Jews being in those places: for all knew his father that he was a Greek.
And having passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews: And according to custom to Paul, he went in to them, and upon three sabbaths discussed with them from the writings,
And according to custom to Paul, he went in to them, and upon three sabbaths discussed with them from the writings, Opening and setting before, that it was necessary for Christ to suffer, and rise from, the dead; and that this is Christ Jesus, whom I announce to you.
Opening and setting before, that it was necessary for Christ to suffer, and rise from, the dead; and that this is Christ Jesus, whom I announce to you. And certain of them were persuaded, and were assigned by lot to Paul and Silas; and of worshipping Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the first women.
And certain of them were persuaded, and were assigned by lot to Paul and Silas; and of worshipping Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the first women. And the unbelieving Jews, having been jealous, and having taken certain evil men of the vulgar, and excited to tumult, they disturbed the city by loud noise, and having stood against the house of Jason, they sought to bring them to the populace.
And the unbelieving Jews, having been jealous, and having taken certain evil men of the vulgar, and excited to tumult, they disturbed the city by loud noise, and having stood against the house of Jason, they sought to bring them to the populace.
And the unbelieving Jews, having been jealous, and having taken certain evil men of the vulgar, and excited to tumult, they disturbed the city by loud noise, and having stood against the house of Jason, they sought to bring them to the populace. And not having found them, they drew Jason and certain brethren to the rulers of the city, crying, That those having subverted the habitable globe, these also are present here;
And not having found them, they drew Jason and certain brethren to the rulers of the city, crying, That those having subverted the habitable globe, these also are present here;
And not having found them, they drew Jason and certain brethren to the rulers of the city, crying, That those having subverted the habitable globe, these also are present here; Which Jason has received: and these all do opposite to Caesar's enactments, saying, There is another king, Jesus.
Which Jason has received: and these all do opposite to Caesar's enactments, saying, There is another king, Jesus. And they troubled the crowd and rulers of the city, having heard these.
And they troubled the crowd and rulers of the city, having heard these. And having taken sufficient of Jason, and the rest, they loosed them.
And having taken sufficient of Jason, and the rest, they loosed them. And the brethren quickly sent out both Paul and Silas by night to Berea: who arriving went away to the synagogue of the Jews.
And when the Jews from Thessalonica heard that also in Berea the word of God was announced by Paul, they came there also, agitating the crowd. And quickly the brethren sent away Paul to go as by the sea: and both Silas and Timothy remained there.
And quickly the brethren sent away Paul to go as by the sea: and both Silas and Timothy remained there. And they conveying Paul brought him even to Athens: and having taken a command to Silas and Timothy that now they might come to him most speedily, they departed.
And they conveying Paul brought him even to Athens: and having taken a command to Silas and Timothy that now they might come to him most speedily, they departed.
And after these Paul having departed from Athens, came to Corinth;
And when both Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was oppressed in spirit, testifying to the Jews Jesus Christ.
And when both Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was oppressed in spirit, testifying to the Jews Jesus Christ. And they opposing, and blaspheming, having shaken off the garments violently, he said to them, Your blood upon your head; I clean: from now will I go to the nations. read more. And having gone away thence, he came to the house of a certain Justus by name, worshipping God, whose house was adjoining the synagogue.
And he sat a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
And he sat a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
And Paul yet having remained sufficient days, having taken leave of the brethren, sailed out to Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn the head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow.
And having come into the synagogue, he spake freely, discoursing for three months, and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God. And when certain were hardened, and believed not, speaking evil of the way before the multitude, having departed from them, he separated the disciples, discoursing in the day in the school of a certain Tyrannus.
And having sent into Macedonia two of them serving him, Timothy, and Erastus, he stopped a season in Asia.
And there agreed with him as far as Asia Sopater a Berean; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus: and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy; and Asians, Tychicus and Trophimus.
And having embarked in a ship of Adramyttium, being about to navigate places in Asia, we were conveyed; Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven upon all profanation and injustice of men, of those detaining the truth in injustice;
Timotheus my helper, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, embrace you.
And ye also know, Philippians, that in the beginning of the good news, when I went out from Macedonia, no church participated with me in the word of donation and accepting, except ye alone. For also in Thessalonica, and once, and twice, ye sent to my necessity.
For also in Thessalonica, and once, and twice, ye sent to my necessity.
See ye lest any be carrying you off by philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.
Therefore let not any judge you in food, or in drink, or in turn of festival, or of the new moon, or of sabbaths:
Aristarchus my fellowcaptive greets you, and Marcus, sister's son to Barnabas, (for whom ye received commands: if he come to you, receive him;)
Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Knowing, brethren beloved, of God your selection. For our good news was not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much complete certainty; as we know what we were among you for your sake. read more. And ye were imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much pressure, with joy of the Holy Spirit: So that ye were types to all believing in Macedonia and Achaia. For from you sounded forth the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith towards God went out; so that we have no need to speak any thing.
For from you sounded forth the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith towards God went out; so that we have no need to speak any thing. For they themselves proclaim of us what entrance we have to you, and how ye turned to God from images to serve the living and true God;
For they themselves proclaim of us what entrance we have to you, and how ye turned to God from images to serve the living and true God;
For they themselves proclaim of us what entrance we have to you, and how ye turned to God from images to serve the living and true God;
For they themselves proclaim of us what entrance we have to you, and how ye turned to God from images to serve the living and true God; And to wait for his Son from the heavens, whom be raised from the dead, Jesus, saving us from coming wrath.
And to wait for his Son from the heavens, whom be raised from the dead, Jesus, saving us from coming wrath.
And to wait for his Son from the heavens, whom be raised from the dead, Jesus, saving us from coming wrath.
For ye yourselves know, brethren, our entrance to you, that it was not in vain: But also having suffered before, and having been injured, as ye know, among the Philippians, we acted freely in our God to speak to you the good news of God with much contest.
But also having suffered before, and having been injured, as ye know, among the Philippians, we acted freely in our God to speak to you the good news of God with much contest. For our entreaty nor from error, nor from uncleanness, nor in deceit: read more. But as we have been tried by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, trying our hearts: For neither once in word were we flatterers, as ye know, neither in a pretext of covetousness; God the witness: Neither seeking glory of men, nor of you, nor of others, being able to be in weight, as the sent of Christ. But we were gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse should cherish her children:
But we were gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse should cherish her children: So longing for you, we are contented to impart to you, not only the good news of God, but also our own souls, because ye are dearly beloved to us. read more. For ye remember, brethren, our fatigue and toil: for also working night and day, not to overload any of you, we proclaimed to you the good news of God.
For ye remember, brethren, our fatigue and toil: for also working night and day, not to overload any of you, we proclaimed to you the good news of God. Ye witnesses, and God, how holily and justly and unblamably we were to you the believing: read more. As ye know how each one of you, as a father his children, comforting and encouraging, and testifying, For you to walk worthy of God, calling you into his kingdom and glory. For this also we return thanks to God continually, that, having received the word of God from our report, ye received not the word of man, but as it is truly, the word of God, which is also energetic in you the believing. For ye, brethren, were imitators of the churches of God being in Judea in Christ Jesus: for ye also suffered the same things by your own race, as they also by the Jews: They also having slain the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and having driven you out; and not pleasing God, and opposite to all men;
They also having slain the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and having driven you out; and not pleasing God, and opposite to all men; Hindering us from speaking to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always: and the wrath of God has come before upon them even to the end.
Hindering us from speaking to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always: and the wrath of God has come before upon them even to the end.
Hindering us from speaking to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always: and the wrath of God has come before upon them even to the end. And we, brethren, having been separated from you for a due measure of time, in face, not in heart, we were the more excessively zealous to see your face with much eager desire.
And we, brethren, having been separated from you for a due measure of time, in face, not in heart, we were the more excessively zealous to see your face with much eager desire. Wherefore we would have come to you, I Paul, truly also once and twice; and the adversary hindered us.
Wherefore we would have come to you, I Paul, truly also once and twice; and the adversary hindered us.
Wherefore we would have come to you, I Paul, truly also once and twice; and the adversary hindered us. For what our hope, or joy, or crown of boasting? Are not also ye before our Lord Jesus Christ in his arrival?
Wherefore no more concealing, we were content to be left among the Athenians alone:
Wherefore no more concealing, we were content to be left among the Athenians alone:
Wherefore no more concealing, we were content to be left among the Athenians alone: And sent Timothy, our brother, and servant of God, and our coworker in the good news of Christ, in order to make you firm, and comfort you for your faith
And sent Timothy, our brother, and servant of God, and our coworker in the good news of Christ, in order to make you firm, and comfort you for your faith For none to be shaken in these pressures: for ye yourselves know that for this we are placed. read more. For also, when we were with you, we told you before that we were about to be pressed; as also it was, and ye know. For this I also, no more concealing, sent to know your faith, lest some way he tempting have tempted you, and our labor be in vain.
For this I also, no more concealing, sent to know your faith, lest some way he tempting have tempted you, and our labor be in vain.
For this I also, no more concealing, sent to know your faith, lest some way he tempting have tempted you, and our labor be in vain. And now Timothy having come to us from you, and having announced to us the good news, your faith and love, and that ye have good remembrance. of us always, greatly desiring to see us, as we also you:
And now Timothy having come to us from you, and having announced to us the good news, your faith and love, and that ye have good remembrance. of us always, greatly desiring to see us, as we also you:
And now Timothy having come to us from you, and having announced to us the good news, your faith and love, and that ye have good remembrance. of us always, greatly desiring to see us, as we also you: For this, brethren, were we comforted in you in all our pressure, and necessity by your faith: read more. For now we live, if ye stand in the Lord. For what thankfulness can we return to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for you before our God; Night and day praying exceedingly to see your face, and to adjust things wanting of your faith?
Night and day praying exceedingly to see your face, and to adjust things wanting of your faith? And God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you: read more. And the Lord increase you and make you to abound in love to one another, and to all, as also we to you:
And the Lord increase you and make you to abound in love to one another, and to all, as also we to you: To make your hearts firm, complete in holiness before God, and our Father, in the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his holy ones.
To make your hearts firm, complete in holiness before God, and our Father, in the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his holy ones.
To make your hearts firm, complete in holiness before God, and our Father, in the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his holy ones.
Therefore as to the rest, brethren we ask you, and beseech in the Lord Jesus, as ye received from us how ye must walk and please God, that ye may more abound.
For this is the will of God, your consecration, that ye should keep away from fornication: For each of you to know how to possess his vessel in consecration and honour; read more. Not in the passion of eager desire, as also the nations not knowing God:
Not in the passion of eager desire, as also the nations not knowing God: Not to pass over and have the advantage over his brother in business: because the Lord just for all these, as we told you before and testified. read more. But God has not called you to uncleanness, but in consecration. For surely therefore he despising, despises not man, but God, he also giving his holy Spirit for us. And for brotherly love ye have no need to write to you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
And for brotherly love ye have no need to write to you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. For also ye do the same to all the brethren, them in the whole of Macedonia: and we beseech you, brethren, to more abound; read more. And that ye be ambitions to remain quiet, and attend to your own things, and work with your own hands, as we enjoined you; That ye should walk becomingly to them without, and have need of nothing. And I wish you not to be ignorant, brethren, of them having been asleep, that ye should not grieve, as also the rest, they hating no hope.
And I wish you not to be ignorant, brethren, of them having been asleep, that ye should not grieve, as also the rest, they hating no hope.
And I wish you not to be ignorant, brethren, of them having been asleep, that ye should not grieve, as also the rest, they hating no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose up, so also God by Jesus Christ will bring with him them having slept.
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose up, so also God by Jesus Christ will bring with him them having slept. For this we say to you in the word of the Lord, that we the living being left at the arrival of the Lord shall not get beforehand with them having slept.
For this we say to you in the word of the Lord, that we the living being left at the arrival of the Lord shall not get beforehand with them having slept. For the Lord himself in the word of command, in the voice of the archangel, shall descend from heaven: and the dead in Christ shall be raised first:
For the Lord himself in the word of command, in the voice of the archangel, shall descend from heaven: and the dead in Christ shall be raised first: Then we the living being left shall be snatched up together with them in the clouds, to the meeting of the Lord in the air: and so we shall always be with the Lord. read more. Therefore comfort ye one another with these words.
And of the times and seasons, brethren, ye have no need to write to you.
And of the times and seasons, brethren, ye have no need to write to you.
And of the times and seasons, brethren, ye have no need to write to you. For ye yourselves know accurately that the day of the Lord, as a thief in the night, so comes.
For ye yourselves know accurately that the day of the Lord, as a thief in the night, so comes.
For ye yourselves know accurately that the day of the Lord, as a thief in the night, so comes. For when they say, Peace and security; then sudden ruin is upon them, as anguish in her with child; and they may not escape.
For when they say, Peace and security; then sudden ruin is upon them, as anguish in her with child; and they may not escape. And ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day as a thief overtake you.
And ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day as a thief overtake you. Ye are all sons of light, and sons of day: we are not of night, nor of darkness.
Ye are all sons of light, and sons of day: we are not of night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as also the rest; but let us watch and be sober.
Therefore let us not sleep, as also the rest; but let us watch and be sober. For they sleeping sleep in the night; and they drunken are drunken in the night.
For they sleeping sleep in the night; and they drunken are drunken in the night. And we, being of the day, let us be sober, putting on the coat of mail of faith and love; and a helmet, the hope of salvation.
And we, being of the day, let us be sober, putting on the coat of mail of faith and love; and a helmet, the hope of salvation. For God set us not for wrath, but for the acquisition of salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
For God set us not for wrath, but for the acquisition of salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, He having died for us, that, whether we watch or sleep, we should live together with him.
He having died for us, that, whether we watch or sleep, we should live together with him. Wherefore comfort one another, and build up one another, as also ye do.
Wherefore comfort one another, and build up one another, as also ye do. And we ask you, brethren, to know those being fatigued among you, and set over you in the Lord, and reminding you;
And we ask you, brethren, to know those being fatigued among you, and set over you in the Lord, and reminding you; And to think them above ordinary in love for their work. Live in peace in yourselves.
And to think them above ordinary in love for their work. Live in peace in yourselves.
And to think them above ordinary in love for their work. Live in peace in yourselves. And we beseech you, brethren, remind the disorderly, encourage the timid, sustain the weak, and be slow to anger to all.
And we beseech you, brethren, remind the disorderly, encourage the timid, sustain the weak, and be slow to anger to all. See that any return not evil to any: but always pursue good to one another, and to all.
See that any return not evil to any: but always pursue good to one another, and to all. Rejoice always. read more. Pray continually.
Pray continually. In every thing return thanks: for this the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you. read more. Quench not the Spirit.
Quench not the Spirit. Set not prophecies at nought.
Set not prophecies at nought. Try all things; hold the good. read more. Keep away from all appearance of evil. And the same God of peace consecrate you perfectly compete; and your whole spirit and soul and body be kept faultless to the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ.
And the same God of peace consecrate you perfectly compete; and your whole spirit and soul and body be kept faultless to the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ.
And the same God of peace consecrate you perfectly compete; and your whole spirit and soul and body be kept faultless to the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful he calling you, who also will do.
Faithful he calling you, who also will do.
I bind you by oath, for the epistle to be read to all the holy brethren.
We ought to return thanks to God always for you, brethren, as is fitting, for your faith increases exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all enlarges to one another;
In fire of flame giving vengeance to them not knowing God, and to them not listening to the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ:
In fire of flame giving vengeance to them not knowing God, and to them not listening to the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall undergo punishment, eternal ruin from the face of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; read more. When he should come to be honoured in his holy ones, and to be admired in all the believing, (that our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
And we ask you, brethren, concerning the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our assembling together to him, For you not to be quickly shaken in mind, neither be disturbed, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by epistle as by us, as that the day of Christ has drawn near.
For you not to be quickly shaken in mind, neither be disturbed, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by epistle as by us, as that the day of Christ has drawn near.
For you not to be quickly shaken in mind, neither be disturbed, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by epistle as by us, as that the day of Christ has drawn near. Let none deceive you in any manner: for, except an apostasy come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
Remember ye not, that, yet being with you, I spake these to you
And then shall the Lawless one be revealed, whom the Lord will destroy with the spirit of his mouth, and leave unemployed in the splendor of his arrival: Whose arrival is according to the energy of Satan in all power and signs and wonders of falsehood,
As to the rest, pray, brethren, for us, that the word of the Lord may run, and be honoured, as also with you: And that we may be delivered from unfit and evil men: for not faith of all.
And that we may be delivered from unfit and evil men: for not faith of all.
And that we may be delivered from unfit and evil men: for not faith of all. But the Lord is faithful, who supports you, and will watch from the evil. read more. And we have had confidence in the Lord for you, that what we announce to you, and ye do and will do. And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ. And we proclaim to you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, for you to shrink from every brother walking disorderly, and not according to the doctrine which he received of us.
And we proclaim to you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, for you to shrink from every brother walking disorderly, and not according to the doctrine which he received of us.
And we proclaim to you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, for you to shrink from every brother walking disorderly, and not according to the doctrine which he received of us. For ye yourselves know that ye ought to imitate us: for we were not disorderly among you;
For ye yourselves know that ye ought to imitate us: for we were not disorderly among you; Neither ate we the bread of any as a gift; but in fatigue and toil working night and day also, not to overload any of you:
Neither ate we the bread of any as a gift; but in fatigue and toil working night and day also, not to overload any of you: Not that we have not power, but that we give ourselves a type to you to imitate us.
Not that we have not power, but that we give ourselves a type to you to imitate us. For also when we were with you, this we proclaimed to you, that if any will not work, neither should he eat.
For also when we were with you, this we proclaimed to you, that if any will not work, neither should he eat. For we hear some walking disorderly among you, working nothing, but occupied unprofitably.
For we hear some walking disorderly among you, working nothing, but occupied unprofitably. And to such we proclaim and beseech by our Lord Jesus Christ, that, with freedom from care working, they should eat their own bread.
And to such we proclaim and beseech by our Lord Jesus Christ, that, with freedom from care working, they should eat their own bread. And ye, brethren, lose not courage doing good.
And ye, brethren, lose not courage doing good. And if any listen not to our word by the epistle, mark him, and mix not together with him, that he may change.
And if any listen not to our word by the epistle, mark him, and mix not together with him, that he may change.
And if any listen not to our word by the epistle, mark him, and mix not together with him, that he may change. And deem not as an enemy, but remind as a brother.
And deem not as an enemy, but remind as a brother. And the Lord of peace himself give to you peace for all in every manner. The Lord with you all. read more. The greeting of Paul with my hand, which is the sign in every epistle: so I write.