Verse 22. _ABSTAIN FROM ALL APPEARANCE OF EVIL._] Sin not, and avoid even the _appearance_ of it. Do not drive your morality so near the bounds of evil as to lead even weak persons to believe that ye...
ABSTAIN FROM ALL APPEARANCE OF EVIL - Not only from evil itself, but from that which seems to be wrong. There are many things which are known to be wrong. They are positively forbidden by the laws of...
V. THE DAY OF THE LORD AND EXHORTATIONS CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The day of the Lord 1 Thessalonians 5:1)_ 2. Exhortations 1 Thessalonians 5:12) 3. Conclusions 1 Thes
SUNDRY COUNSELS AND EXHORTATIONS. 1 Thessalonians 5:12. Christians are urged to respect their leaders. No officers and ministers are mentioned in this epistle, but this verse implies that the Church h...
LIKE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT (1 Thessalonians 5:1-11)...
We ask you, brothers, to give due recognition to those who labour among you and to those who preside over you in the Lord and admonish you, and to hold them very highly in love because of the work tha...
ABSTAIN. See 1 Thessalonians 4:3. ALL. every. APPEARANCE. form. Greek. _eidos._ See John 5:37. EVIL. App-128....
_Abstain from all appearance of evil_ FROM EVERY FORM OF EVIL (R. V.). The Apostle does not advise the Thessalonians to avoid what _looks like_evil; the command thus understood encourages the studying...
Section VII. Rules for the Sanctified Life. Ch. 1 Thessalonians 5:12-24 In Section v. (ch. 1 Thessalonians 4:1-12) the _saintship_of his readers supplied the basis and the nerve of the Apostle's char...
§ 11. 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24. Directions for Holy Living In § 7 (1 Thessalonians 4:1-12) _the saintship_ of the Thessalonians supplied the basis and the nerve of the Apostles’ charge. The virtues of...
DISCOURSE: 2208 ABSTAINING FROM ALL APPEARANCE OF EVIL 1 Thessalonians 5:22. _Abstain from all appearance of evil_. SIN is a tremendous evil. The consequences of one single sin are beyond all our pow...
PROVE ALL THINGS, &C.— Though they were not to _despise prophesyings,_ yet they were not to receive every thing which might be so called; but to _prove_ and _examine_ all things that went under that n...
TEXT (1 Thessalonians 5:21-22) 21 PROVE ALL THINGS; HOLD FAST THAT WHICH IS GOOD; 22 ABSTAIN FROM EVERY FORM OF EVIL. Translation and Paraphrase 21. Test all things (whatever you may hear or see....
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. B Delta G f g, Vulgate, insert, 'but.' 'Aleph (') A C omit it. You ought indeed not to "quench the Spirit" nor "despise prophesyings;" 'but,' at the...
THE LORD'S PRESENCE THOSE DROWSING THOSE DROWSING 4 The day of the Lord with its terrors and destruction is not for us. The cry of "peace and security" should not lull us to sleep. We should be on t...
5:22 wickedness. (b-7) The distinction between the expressions 'the right' and the word translated 'wickedness' (lit. 'evil') without an article is profoundly beautiful. The latter is looked at as a...
ALL APPEARANCE] better, 'every form.' Good is one; evil is manifold....
THE NEED OF WATCHFULNESS. FINAL INJUNCTIONS 1. Times and seasons] St. Paul always lays stress on the uncertainty as to the TIME of the Advent (2 Thessalonians 2:2 cp. 2 Peter 3:3)....
WHEN JESUS CHRIST COMES 1 THE THESSALONIANS _IAN MACKERVOY_ A word list is at the end. It explains words with a *star by them. CHAPTER 5 WHEN THE *LORD WILL COME 5:1-11 V1 Now, brothers and s...
ABSTAIN FROM ALL APPEARANCE OF EVIL. — This translation cannot stand. Possibly it might be rendered “every form of evil,” but the most natural version would be, “Hold yourselves aloof from every evil...
CHAPTER 15 THE SPIRIT 1 Thessalonians 5:20 (R.V.) THESE verses are abruptly introduced, but are not unconnected with what precedes. The Apostle has spoken of order and discipline, and of the joyful...
General instructions for the church....
A further general precept, added to bring out the negative side of κατέχετε, κ. τ. λ. πονηροῦ neut. abstract = “of wickedness,” as Genesis 2:9 (τοῦ εἰδέναι γνωστὸν καλοῦ καὶ πονηροῦ). παντὸς κ. τ. λ.,...
“WITHOUT BLAME” AT HIS COMING 1 Thessalonians 5:12 The remainder of the chapter is filled with brief sentences of exhortation, like cablegrams from our Heavenly Captain to his soldiers, who, in the p...
Under the figure of a camp in which fully armed soldiers are waiting for the break of day, while those not expecting this are sleeping and drunken, the apostle shows that those waiting for the Son are...
GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR THE SPIRITUAL MAN In 1 Thessalonians 1:6, Paul had noted their joy. As he closed out this letter, the apostle wanted to urge the brethren to make joy an ever present part of the...
(13) Abstain from all (h) appearance of evil. (13) A general conclusion, that we waiting for the coming of Christ, do give ourselves to pureness in mind, will, and body, through the grace and strengt...
(12) And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; (13) And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at pea...
There is a special interest in examining the epistles to the Thessalonians, more particularly the first, because, in point of fact, it was the earliest of the letters of the apostles; and as the first...
22_From every evil appearance_. Some think that this is a universal statement, as though he commanded to abstain from all things that bear upon their front an _appearance of evil_. In that case the me...
The Lord's coming again into this world assumes therefore a very different character from that of a vague object of hope to a believer as a period of glory. In Chapter 5 the apostle speaks of it, but...
ABSTAIN FROM ALL APPEARANCE OF EVIL. Of doctrinal evil. Not only open error and heresy are to be avoided, but what has any show of it, or looks like it, or carries in it a suspicion of it, or may be a...
Abstain from all appearance of evil. Ver. 22. _Abstain from all, &c._] Whatsoever is heterodox, unsound, and unsavoury, shun it, as you would do a serpent in your way or poison in your meats. Theodos...
_Despise not prophesyings_ That is, the preaching of God's word; for the apostle is not here speaking of extraordinary gifts, but of such as are ordinary. It seems one means of grace is put for all; a...
ABSTAIN FROM ALL APPEARANCE OF EVIL. Of these brief admonitions one commentator says: "To comment adequately upon these diamond drops would be to outline a history of the Christian experience in its h...
The Christian's personal bearing and conduct:...
In contrast to the new revelation Paul gives at the end of ch. 4, he now tells them in ch. 5 that "of the times and seasons" there was no need to write, for this was a matter of which they were well a...
B. Appeal for steadfastness, 5:16-22 16 REJOICE EVERMORE. 17 Pray without ceasing. 18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. 19 Quench not the Spi...
“ABSTAIN FROM EVERY FORM OF EVIL” “Abstain”: To hold oneself off, that is refrain. “EVERY FORM”: The term “form” here means appearance, fashion or shape. This would include evil advice or false teach...
16-22 We are to rejoice in creature-comforts, as if we rejoiced not, and must not expect to live many years, and rejoice in them all; but if we do rejoice in God, we may do that evermore. A truly rel...
OLBGrk; To make this verse have its connection with the former, some expositors understand it of doctrines and opinions only; to take heed of opinions that seem erroneous, and not rashly to receive th...
abstain from every form of evil. [These words close the sentence; the full thought is this: despise no prophecy, but prove it; if it is good, hold fast to it, but abstain from every form of evil teach...
Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians and that ye be chaste and truthful. "Abstain from every form of evil."[62]...
1 Thessalonians 5:22 Abstain G567 (G5732) from G575 every G3956 form G1491 evil G4190...
‘Do not quench the Spirit, do not despise prophesyings, prove all things, hold fast that which is good, abstain from every appearance (or ‘form') of evil.' The word for quench is often used of the que...
AS Paul's custom was, he concludes this Epistle with a number of practical injunctions suitable to the circumstances of those to whom he writes, and more or less connected with one another....
ABSTAIN FROM EVERY FORM OF EVIL (απο παντος ειδους πονηρου απεχεσθε). Present middle (direct) imperative of απ-εχω (contrast with κατ-εχω) and preposition απο repeated with ablative as in 1 Thessalo...
1 Thessalonians 5:22 Evil Superficially Attractive. I. This is so important a precept (1) because men's faculties are so frail. We cannot penetrate below the surface; therefore let that which is supe...
1 Thessalonians 5:19 I. The Holy Spirit is here spoken of not strictly in respect of His Person, but in respect of His energising power in and on the heart. His workings, the Apostle would say, may be...
1 Thessalonians 5:1. _But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night._ It...
CONTENTS: The model walk for the believer. The day of Jehovah. Exhortations to believers. CHARACTERS: Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul. CONCLUSION: Let Christians live like men who are awake, living in cons...
1 Thessalonians 5:1. _Of the times and seaso_n _s, ye have no need that I write to you._ Paul as a prophet might have said much concerning the dispensations of providence which should attend the churc...
21-22. PUT ALL THINGS TO THE TEST. Tradition is a collection of things which are accepted as being true, without examination. The Bible, especially the New Testament, is the "yardstick" by which to me...
_Abstain from all appearance of evil _ SAFE CONDUCT A man will never begin to be good till he begins to decline those occasions that have made him bad; therefore saith St. Paul to the Thessalonians...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 1 Thessalonians 5:19. QUENCH NOT THE SPIRIT.—When there has been excess, and a good has come into disrepute, it is natural to seek to stifle down further manifestatio...
EXPOSITION CONTENTS.—With regard to the time of that glorious advent when believers, whether dead or living, will be gathered together to Christ, the Thessalonians had already been fully instructed. T...
But of the times and seasons, brethren, you have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace...
1 Corinthians 10:31; 1 Corinthians 8:13; 1 Thessalonians 4:12; 2 Corinthians 6:3;...
Appearance [ε ι δ ο υ ς]. As commonly explained, abstain from everything that even looks like evil. But the word signifies form or kind. Comp. Luke 3:22; John 5:37, and see nearly the same phrase in J...
SANCTIFICATION 1 Thessalonians 4:3; _1 Thessalonians 5:15_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS The doctrine of sanctification has been abused, but that does not mean that we should steer clear of God's message conce...
And be equally zealous and careful to abstain from all appearance of evil — Observe, those who "heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears," under pretence of proving all things, have no counten...
This advice genuinely follows upon the former; after we have tried all things, we must HOLD FAST THAT WHICH IS GOOD, and ABSTAIN FROM EVIL. Where note, the gradation used by our apostle, we must ABST...