Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more. FURTHERMORE, [ loipon (G3063)] - 'As to what remains.' The transition to the close of his letters (2 Corinthians 1... [ Continue Reading ]
For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus. BY THE LORD JESUS - by His authority, not by our own. He uses the strong term "commandments" [ parangelias (G3852)], in writing to this church, not long founded, knowing that they would take in a right spirit this intimation that he spa... [ Continue Reading ]
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: FOR - enforcing the assertion, . Since "this is the will of God," let it be your will also. FORNICATION - not regarded as a sin at all among the pagan, so needing the more to be denounced ().... [ Continue Reading ]
That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; KNOW - by moral self control. HOW TO POSSESS HIS VESSEL, [ to (G3588) heautou (G1438) skeuos (G4632) ktasthai (G2932)] - 'how to get for himself his own vessel;' i:e., his own wife, so as to avoid fornicat... [ Continue Reading ]
Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God: IN THE LUST, [ pathei (G3806)] - 'passion;' such are unconsciously passive slaves of lusts. WHICH KNOW NOT GOD - and so know no better. Ignorance of true religion begets unchastity (Ephesians 4:18). A people's morals ar... [ Continue Reading ]
That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified. GO BEYOND - the bounds appointed by God, as to his brother. First, fornication is forbidden; then a holy use of its natural remedy affirmat... [ Continue Reading ]
For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. UNTO, [ epi (G1909)] - 'for the purpose of.' UNTO - Greek, 'in.' "Holiness" is the sphere or element in which our calling has place. Saint is another name for Christian.... [ Continue Reading ]
He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit. DESPISETH, [ ho (G3588) athetoon (G1140)] - 'setteth at nought' such duties of his calling (1 Thessalonians 4:7); in relation to his brother (1 Thessalonians 4:6). He who doth so 'sets at nought no... [ Continue Reading ]
But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. BROTHERLY LOVE (Romans 12:10; Galatians 6:10; Hebrews 13:1; 1 Peter 1:22; 1 Peter 3:8; 2 Peter 1:7) - shown in relieving distressed brethren. A C support 'YE have.' 'Aleph ('... [ Continue Reading ]
And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more; TOWARD ALL THE BRETHREN WHICH ARE IN ALL MACEDONIA. From one and a half to two years had elapsed between the conversion of the Thessalonians and the writing of th... [ Continue Reading ]
And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; STUDY TO BE QUIET, [ philotimeisthai (G5389)] - 'make it your ambition to be quiet, and to do your own business.' In contrast to the world's ambition 'to make a great stir,' and the... [ Continue Reading ]
That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing. WALK - a continuous course. HONESTLY - in the old English sense, 'becomingly:' as becomes your Christian profession: in contrast to "disorderly" (): not bringing discredit on it before the world, as i... [ Continue Reading ]
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. The leading topic of Paul's preaching at Thessalonica having been the coming kingdom (Acts 17:7), some perverted it into a cause for fear as to friends latel... [ Continue Reading ]
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. FOR IF (not doubt: the indicative follows) - confirmation of , that the removal of ignorance as to sleeping believers would remove undue grief respecting them (cf. . "hope"). Our hope... [ Continue Reading ]
For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. BY ('IN') THE WORD OF THE LORD - i:e., in virtue of a direct revelation from the Lord. So ; ; ; ; . This is the "mystery" once hidden, now rev... [ Continue Reading ]
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: HIMSELF - in all the majesty of His personal presence, not by deputy. DESCEND - even as He ascended (Acts 1:11). WITH - Greek, 'in... [ Continue Reading ]
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. WE WHICH ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN SHALL BE CAUGHT UP - after having been "changed in a moment" (1 Corinthians 15:51-46). Again he says "we," reco... [ Continue Reading ]
Wherefore comfort one another with these words. COMFORT ONE ANOTHER - in your mourning for the dead ().... [ Continue Reading ]