1 Thessalonians 4:1-5
WARNING REGARDING VARIOUS SINS. Concerning concupiscence:... [ Continue Reading ]
WARNING REGARDING VARIOUS SINS. Concerning concupiscence:... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WE KNOW WHAT COMMANDMENTS WE GAVE YOU BY THE LORD JESUS.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THIS IS THE WILL OF GOD, EVEN YOUR SANCTIFICATION, THAT YE SHOULD ABSTAIN FROM FORNICATION;... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT EVERY ONE OF YOU SHOULD KNOW HOW TO POSSESS HIS VESSEL IN SANCTIFICATION AND HONOR;... [ Continue Reading ]
NOT IN THE LUST OF CONCUPISCENCE, EVEN AS THE GENTILES, WHICH KNOW NOT GOD. It is a wise pastor that can make a cordial commendation precede a necessary correction. The report of Timothy had, in general, been very favorable, but he had not withheld from the apostle the fact that certain abuses stood... [ 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.... [ Continue Reading ]
A warning against covetousness:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR GOD HATH NOT CALLED US UNTO UNCLEANNESS, BUT UNTO HOLINESS.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE, THEREFORE, THAT DESPISETH, DESPISETH NOT MAN, BUT GOD, WHO HATH ALSO GIVEN UNTO US HIS HOLY SPIRIT. The apostle here points to a second vice, one which is often mentioned together with uncleanness, See Ephesians 4:19; Ephesians 5:3; Colossians 3:5, that of avarice, of greed: That no one overreac... [ Continue Reading ]
The apostle urges brotherly love and sober industry:... [ 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.... [ 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,... [ 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;... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT YE MAY WALK HONESTLY TOWARD THEM THAT ARE WITHOUT, AND THAT YE MAY HAVE LACK OF NOTHING. This passage is another masterpiece of pastoral exhortation, for it combines a ready acknowledgment of the progress already made in sanctification with a tactful reminder of the fact that the goal has not y... [ 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.... [ Continue Reading ]
INFORMATION ABOUT THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD.... [ 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.... [ 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.... [ 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.... [ 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.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE COMFORT ONE ANOTHER WITH THESE WORDS. It seems that the Thessalonian Christians, in their excessive eagerness concerning the second coming of the Lord, had stumbled into various misunderstandings. Their solicitude for their dead, for instance, caused them to fear that the latter would occu... [ Continue Reading ]