1 Thessalonians 1:1
PAUL AND SILVANUS AND TIMOTHEUS, UNTO THE CHURCH OF THE THESSALONIANS, WHICH IS IN GOD THE FATHER AND IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST: GRACE BE UNTO YOU AND PEACE FROM GOD, OUR FATHER, AND THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.... [ Continue Reading ]
PAUL AND SILVANUS AND TIMOTHEUS, UNTO THE CHURCH OF THE THESSALONIANS, WHICH IS IN GOD THE FATHER AND IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST: GRACE BE UNTO YOU AND PEACE FROM GOD, OUR FATHER, AND THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.... [ Continue Reading ]
INTRODUCTION AND THANKSGIVING.... [ Continue Reading ]
WE GIVE THANKS TO GOD ALWAYS FOR YOU ALL, MAKING MENTION OF YOU IN OUR PRAYERS;... [ Continue Reading ]
REMEMBERING WITHOUT CEASING YOUR WORK OF FAITH AND LABOR OF LOVE AND PATIENCE OF HOPE IN OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, IN THE SIGHT OF GOD AND OUR FATHER;... [ Continue Reading ]
KNOWING, BRETHREN BELOVED, YOUR ELECTION OF GOD. In this, probably the first letter written by St. Paul to any congregation, we find all the characteristics which give to his epistles the vigor and the charm that unfailingly impress the reader. Since his apostolic authority at this time had in no wa... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR OUR GOSPEL CAME NOT UNTO, YOU IN WORD ONLY, BUT ALSO IN POWER AND IN THE HOLY GHOST AND IN MUCH ASSURANCE; AS YE KNOW WHAT MANNER OF MEN WE WERE AMONG YOU FOR YOUR SAKE.... [ Continue Reading ]
A RECOMMENDATION OF THE CONGREGATION'S ATTITUDE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND YE BECAME FOLLOWERS OF US AND OF THE LORD, HAVING RECEIVED THE WORD IN MUCH AFFLICTION, WITH JOY OF THE HOLY GHOST,... [ Continue Reading ]
SO THAT YE WERE ENSAMPLES TO ALL THAT BELIEVE IN MACEDONIA AND ACHAIA.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR FROM YOU SOUNDED OUT THE WORD OF THE LORD NOT ONLY IN MACEDONIA AND ACHAIA, BUT ALSO IN EVERY PLACE YOUR FAITH TO GOD-WARD IS SPREAD ABROAD, SO THAT WE NEED NOT TO SPEAK ANYTHING.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THEY THEMSELVES SHOW OF US WHAT MANNER OF ENTERING IN WE HAD UNTO YOU, AND HOW YE TURNED TO GOD FROM IDOLS TO SERVE THE LIVING AND TRUE GOD;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND TO WAIT FOR HIS SON FROM HEAVEN, WHOM HE RAISED FROM THE DEAD, EVEN JESUS, WHICH DELIVERED US FROM THE WRATH TO COME. The apostle here substantiates more fully the reason for his assurance of the election of the Thessalonian Christians: Because our Gospel came not to you in word only, but also i... [ Continue Reading ]