The apostle praises the Thessalonians for the progress they had made in the theological virtues [of faith, hope, and charity], and enumerates the profit they had derived from each. Their faith had produced works; their charity rendered their labour light and easy, and their patience was the fruit of their future hopes, in confidence of which they bore what they had to suffer from their unconverted countrymen. (Estius)
Verse 1 Thessalonians 1:3. _YOUR WORK OF FAITH_] This verse contains a very high character of the believers at Thessalonica. They had FAITH, not _speculative_ and _indolent_, but _true, sound_, and _...
REMEMBERING WITHOUT CEASING - Remembering your faith and love whenever we pray. This is not to be understood literally, but it is language such as we use respecting anything that interests us much. It...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS THE CHURCH OF THE THESSALONIANS AND ITS BLESSED CONDITION CHAPTER 1 _ 1. Greetings and thanksgiving 1 Thessalonians 1:1)_ 2. The gospel and its blessed fruits 1 Thessalon...
THANKSGIVING FOR THE PAST. As in all his epistles except Gal., Paul commences with a paragraph of congratulation, singling out for special praise the work of faith, the labour of love, and the patienc...
LOVE'S INTRODUCTION (1 Thessalonians 1:1-10) Paul and Silas and Timothy send this letter to the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace be to you and pe...
WITHOUT CEASING. Greek. _adialeiptos._ Only here, 1Th 2:13. 1 Thessalonians 5:17; Romans 1:9. OF. proceeding from. Genitive of origin. App-17.; or, it may be Genitive of character. App-17., and would...
_remembering without ceasing … in the sight of God and our Father_ Standing ever in the presence of God, the witness of all his thoughts, St Paul bears with him unceasingly the remembrance of what he...
3. The reading ΤΟΥ ΕΡΓΟΥ … τον κοπον … την υπομονην, of D*, exhibits the carelessness of Western transcribers; G has the accusative throughout. _et laboris et caritatis_ (as if τ. κοπου και τ. αγαπης)...
§ 2. 1 Thessalonians 1:2-10. Thanksgiving for the Thessalonian Church This εὐχαριστία is one long sentence spun out in a continuous thread (cf. Ephesians 1:3-14; and see _Introd._ p. lix.). It affords...
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DISCOURSE: 2191 TRUE PIETY DESCRIBED 1 Thessalonians 1:2. _We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers; remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour o...
YOUR WORK OF FAITH, &C.— Some translate it, _Your faithful work, and loving labour, and patient hope._ Others join the last clause with the first words of the verse, _Without ceasing remembering in th...
TEXT (1 Thessalonians 1:3) 3 REMEMBERING WITHOUT CEASING YOUR WORK OF FAITH AND LABOR OF LOVE AND PATIENCE OF HOPE IN OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, BEFORE OUR GOD AND FATHER; Translation and Paraphrase 3....
Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father; WORK OF FAITH - the working reality of your fa...
PAUL'S THANKSGIVING 2 This is the pattern pastoral epistle. Paul's deep concern leads him to constant prayer for them, for he knows their need and has been torn from them before it was possible for h...
SALUTATION AND THANKSGIVING 1. Salutation. For Silvanus (Silas) see Acts 15:22; Acts 16:20; Acts 16:37; Acts 16:38. Timothy was one of St. Paul's most const
WHEN JESUS CHRIST COMES 1 THE THESSALONIANS _IAN MACKERVOY_ ABOUT THE LETTER 1. THE WRITERS This letter is from Paul, Silas and Timothy. From these three, the *apostle Paul was the main author....
FAITH... LOVE... HOPE. — in this first of his writings, St. Paul has already fixed upon the three great _abiding_ principles (1 Corinthians 13:13) of the Christian life, and the forms in which they ma...
CHAPTER 2 THE THANKSGIVING. 1 Thessalonians 1:2 (R.V.) THE salutation in St. Paul's epistles is regularly followed by the thanksgiving. Once only, in the Epistle to the Galatians, is it omitted; the...
_Thanksgiving for the origin and achievements of the church_. 1 Thessalonians 1:2. Whenever Paul was at his prayers, he remembered his friends at Thessalonica; and whenever he recalled them his first...
ἀδιαλ. Neither distance nor fresh interests make any difference to his affection; his life is bound up with their welfare; his source of happiness is their Christian well-being (_cf._ 1 Thessalonians...
IMITATORS AND EXAMPLES 1 Thessalonians 1:1 This chapter abounds in thanksgiving; and the Apostle recites the many beautiful and hopeful traits of character and behavior by which the members of this C...
This letter was intended as a message of comfort and instruction to those who were in the midst of persecution. In writing, the apostle associated himself with Silas and Timothy. He commenced by refer...
THANKING GOD FOR THE THESSALONIANS When Paul prayed, he thanked God for all of the brethren at Thessalonica. He knew the persecution that church had endured almost from its beginning, so he may have b...
(2) Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father; (2) He commends them for three special gifts...
(1) В¶ 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...
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...
3_Unceasingly remembering you_. While the adverb _unceasingly _might be taken in connection with what goes before, it suits better to connect it in this manner. What follows might also be rendered in...
The apostle, in declaring (as was his custom) that which he felt respecting them the aspect in which they appeared to his heart and mind, speaks neither of gifts, as to the Corinthians, nor of the gra...
REMEMBERING WITHOUT CEASING,.... The phrase "without ceasing", is, by the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Ethiopic versions, joined to the last clause of the preceding verse; and the remembrance the apostl...
Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father; Ver. 3. _Remembering without ceasing_] A good me...
_We give thanks_, &c. From hence to 1 Thessalonians 3:13, we have the chief object of this epistle, which was to comfort, strengthen, and establish the Christians at Thessalonica, and induce them to p...
WORK OF FAITH; work which has faith for its source, and is therefore itself an exercise of faith. So the following expression, LABOR OF LOVE, is to be understood. PATIENCE; the steadfast endurance of...
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;...
INTRODUCTION AND THANKSGIVING....
Only in the two epistles to the Thessalonians does Paul include the names of his two co-workers, Silas and Timothy, in his addressing them. Also only in these does he refrain from designating himself...
II. Review of the history of the Thessalonian church, 1:2-10 A. Their faithfulness, 1:2-3 2 WE GIVE THANKS TO GOD ALWAYS FOR YOU ALL, MAKING MENTION OF YOU IN OUR PRAYERS; 3 Remembering without cea...
“remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father” “Remembering”: “Present active” _(Robertson p. 7)._ “We neve...
1-5 As all good comes from God, so no good can be hoped for by sinners, but from God in Christ. And the best good may be expected from God, as our Father, for the sake of Christ. We should pray, not...
OLBGrk; REMEMBERING WITHOUT CEASING; the occasion of his constant thanksgivings was his constant remembering of that grace of God that did so abound and work powerfully in them, not as if he had alway...
remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father [Paul thanked God for the church at Thessalonica for its evide...
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‘We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers, remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patient endurance of hope in our Lord Jesus Chr...
1 Thessalonians 1:3. WORK OF FAITH, _i.e._ that which faith does or effects; its fruit or product. Every living thing, plant or animal, has its specific product or work, its thing to do. That which fa...
_Paul thankfully acknowledges the Genuineness and Striking Characteristics of the Conversion of the Thessalonians_ It is merely for convenience' sake the first three Chapter s are divided. They really...
REMEMBERING (μνημονευοντες). Present active participle of old verb from adjective μνημων (mindful) and so to call to mind, to be mindful of, used either with the accusative as in 1 Thessalonians 2:...
WORK OF FAITH Literally, operative faith, and laborious love, and hope-filled patience....
1 Thessalonians 1:1 I. Here we have the apostolic greeting in its most usual form grace and peace a blending of the ordinary Greek and Hebrew modes of salutation, "the union of Asiatic repose and Euro...
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...
CONTENTS: The model church. Three tenses of the Christian life. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul, Silvanus, Timothy. CONCLUSION: Those who have embraced the full Gospel, as proclaimed by t...
1 Thessalonians 1:1. _Paul and Silvanus._ The latter is so denominated in other passages of scripture, that being the name by which he was known to the gentiles. 2 Corinthians 1:19; 2 Thessalonians 1:...
FOR WE REMEMBER. Remembering these good things was a habit. HOW YOU PUT YOUR FAITH INTO PRACTICE. Faith itself is a good work (John 6:29). HOW YOUR LOVE MADE YOU WORK SO HARD. This implies working har...
_We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers _ MINISTERIAL THANKSGIVING I. Is expansive in its character. It is our duty to be grateful for personal benefits, but...
Remembering without ceasing your work of faith THE THREE GRACES AT WORK I. The work of faith. Faith is an active principle, and St. James has dealt with it as such, and told Antinomians of every age...
1 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 1 THESSALONIANS 1:3 FAITH... LOVE... HOPE. A common Pauline pattern (see 1 Thessalonians 5:8;...
1 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 1 THESSALONIANS 1:2 Thanksgiving and Encouragement. It is typical for Paul to include a word of thanksgiving near the beginning of his letters ...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 1 Thessalonians 1:3. WORK OF FAITH, AND LABOUR OF LOVE, AND PATIENCE OF HOPE.—The famous three sister-graces familiar to us from St. Paul’s other letters. As Bengel sa...
EXPOSITION CONTENTS.—Paul, after the address and salutation, testifies that he renders constant thanks to God for the Thessalonians, calling to remembrance their faith, love, and hope, being assured o...
Let's turn to first Thessalonians. Paul, the apostle, on his second missionary journey had taken Silas with him, who was commended by the church in Jerusalem as one of the leaders. When they got to De...
1 Corinthians 13:13; 1 Corinthians 13:4; 1 Corinthians 15:58; 1 John 3:18;...
Without ceasing [α δ ι α λ ε ι π τ ω ς]. P o. In LXX see 1 Macc. 7 11; 2 Macc. 3 26; 9 4; 8 12; 14 7; 3 Maccvi. 33. Should be construed with making mention, not with remembering, as A. V. and Rev. The...
THE MODEL CHURCH 1 Thessalonians 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS On this earth we may expect to find no church model in all things. Even the Twelve had a traitor, and yet they were nourished and taught by t...
Remembering in the sight of God — That is, praising him for it. Your work of faith — Your active, ever — working faith. And labour of love — Love continually labouring for the bodies or souls of men....