1 Thessalonians 2:1-6
PAUL'S MANNER OF WORKING IN THESSALONICA. 1 Thessalonians 2:1 He came with the humble desire to serve God:... [ Continue Reading ]
PAUL'S MANNER OF WORKING IN THESSALONICA. 1 Thessalonians 2:1 He came with the humble desire to serve God:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR YOURSELVES, BRETHREN, KNOW OUR ENTRANCE IN UNTO YOU THAT IT WAS NOT IN VAIN;... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT EVEN AFTER THAT WE HAD SUFFERED BEFORE, AND WERE SHAMEFULLY ENTREATED, AS YOU KNOW, AT PHILIPPI, WE WERE BOLD IN OUR GOD TO SPEAK UNTO YOU THE GOSPEL OF GOD WITH MUCH CONTENTION.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR OUR EXHORTATION WAS NOT OF DECEIT, NOR OF UNCLEANNESS, NOR IN GUILE;... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT AS WE WERE ALLOWED OF GOD TO BE PUT IN TRUST WITH THE GOSPEL, EVEN SO WE SPEAK; NOT AS PLEASING MEN, BUT GOD, WHICH TRIETH OUR HEARTS.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR NEITHER AT ANY TIME USED WE FLATTERING WORDS, AS YE KNOW, NOR A CLOAK OF COVETOUSNESS; GOD IS WITNESS;... [ Continue Reading ]
NOR OF MEN SOUGHT WE GLORY, NEITHER OF YOU, NOR YET OF OTHERS, WHEN WE MIGHT HAVE BEEN BURDENSOME, AS THE APOSTLES OF CHRIST. The apostle here takes up the thought which he had broached in chap. 1:9, of his first coming to Thessalonica: For yourselves know, brethren, our entrance to you, that it was... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WE WERE GENTLE AMONG YOU, EVEN AS A NURSE CHERISHETH HER CHILDREN;... [ Continue Reading ]
Paul's unselfish devotion:... [ Continue Reading ]
SO BEING AFFECTIONATELY DESIROUS OF YOU, WE WERE WILLING TO HAVE IMPARTED UNTO YOU, NOT THE GOSPEL OF GOD ONLY, BUT ALSO OUR OWN SOULS, BECAUSE YE WERE DEAR UNTO US.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR YE REMEMBER, BRETHREN, OUR LABOR AND TRAVAIL; FOR LABORING NIGHT AND DAY, BECAUSE WE WOULD NOT BE CHARGEABLE UNTO ANY OF YOU, WE PREACHED UNTO YOU THE GOSPEL OF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
YE ARE WITNESSES, AND GOD ALSO, HOW HOLILY AND JUSTLY AND UNBLAMABLY WE BEHAVED OURSELVES AMONG YOU THAT BELIEVE;... [ Continue Reading ]
AS YE KNOW HOW WE EXHORTED AND COMFORTED AND CHARGED EVERY ONE OF YOU, AS A FATHER DOTH HIS CHILDREN,... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT YE WOULD WALK WORTHY OF GOD, WHO HATH CALLED YOU UNTO HIS KINGDOM AND GLORY. The apostle is still carrying out the thought of 1 Thessalonians 2:1. that his coming to Thessalonica had not been in vain, that his ministry in that city had been in accordance with the will of God, with an entire abs... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THIS CAUSE ALSO THANK WE GOD WITHOUT CEASING, BECAUSE, WHEN YE RECEIVED THE WORD OF GOD WHICH YE HEARD OF US, YE RECEIVED IT NOT AS THE WORD OF MEN, BUT AS IT IS IN TRUTH, THE WORD OF GOD, WHICH EFFECTUALLY WORKETH ALSO IN YOU THAT BELIEVE.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE MANNER IN WHICH THE THESSALONIANS RECEIVED THE GOSPEL They accepted the Gospel and bore its burdens:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR YE, BRETHREN, BECAME FOLLOWERS OF THE CHURCHES OF GOD WHICH IN JUDEA ARE IN CHRIST JESUS; FOR YE ALSO HAVE SUFFERED LIKE THINGS OF YOUR OWN COUNTRYMEN, EVEN AS THEY HAVE OF THE JEWS;... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO BOTH KILLED THE LORD JESUS AND THEIR OWN PROPHETS, AND HAVE PERSECUTED US; AND THEY PLEASE NOT GOD, AND ARE CONTRARY TO ALL MEN,... [ Continue Reading ]
FORBIDDING US TO SPEAK TO THE GENTILES THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED, TO FILL UP THEIR SINS ALWAY; FOR THE WRATH IS COME UPON THEM TO THE UTTERMOST. The apostle had just mentioned the fact that God had called the Thessalonian Christians into the kingdom of His grace. This fact causes him to launch forth... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WE, BRETHREN, BEING TAKEN FROM YOU FOR A SHORT TIME IN PRESENCE, NOT IN HEART, ENDEAVORED THE MORE ABUNDANTLY TO SEE YOUR FACE WITH GREAT DESIRE.... [ Continue Reading ]
Paul's attempts to visit the Thessalonians:... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE WE WOULD HAVE COME UNTO YOU, EVEN I, PAUL, ONCE AND AGAIN; BUT SATAN HINDERED US.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WHAT IS OUR HOPE, OR JOY, OR CROWN OF REJOICING? ARE NOT EVEN YE IN THE PRESENCE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST AT HIS COMING?... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR YE ARE OUR GLORY AND JOY. Here the apostle returns once more to the declaration of the cordial affection which he felt for the Thessalonian Christians: But we, brethren, bereft of you for a little while, in presence, not in heart, strove all the more to see your face with great desire. With grea... [ Continue Reading ]