For you know the instructions we gave you. Faith and actions cannot be divorced one from another (see James 2:14-26). After making people disciples of Christ, we are to teach them to obey everything Jesus has commanded.
Verse 1 Thessalonians 4:2. _YE KNOW WHAT COMMANDMENTS WE GAVE YOU_] This refers to his instructions while he was among them; and to instructions on particular subjects, which he does not _recapitulate...
FOR YE KNOW WHAT COMMANDMENTS - It was but a short time since Paul was with them, and they could not but recollect the rules of living which he had laid down. BY THE LORD JESUS - By the authority of...
IV. THE SEPARATED WALK AND THE BLESSED HOPE CHAPTER 4 _ 1. The separated walk 1 Thessalonians 4:1)_ 2. The coming of the Lord for His saints 1 Thessalonians 4:13)...
PRACTICAL EXHORTATIONS TO PURITY OF LIFE AND BROTHERLY LOVE. The Church at Thessalonica has begun well and is encouraged to go forward. 1 THESSALONIANS 4:1. ABOUND: 1 THESSALONIANS 3:12 *....
THE SUMMONS TO PURITY (1 Thessalonians 4:1-8)...
Finally then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that, as you have received instructions from us as to how you must behave to please God, even so you do behave, that you may go on from m...
KNOW. App-132. COMMANDMENTS. Greek. _parangelia._ Compare 1 Timothy 1:18 (charge). LORD. App-98....
_For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord jesus_ Lit., CHARGES … THROUGH THE LORD JESUS; similarly in 1 Thessalonians 4:11, "as we charged you," and in 2 Thessalonians 3:4, &c. The Greek...
Section V. A Lesson in Christian Morals. Ch. 1 Thessalonians 4:1-12 We now pass from the first to the second of the two main divisions of the Epistle (see _Introd_. Chap. VII.), from _narrative_to _e...
§ 7. 1 Thessalonians 4:1-12. A Lesson in Christian Morals We pass from the first to the second half of the Letter, from _narration_ to _exhortation_ Chh. 1–3 are complete in themselves, setting forth...
ΟἽΔΑΤΕ ΓᾺΡ ΤΊΝΑΣ ΠΑΡΑΓΓΕΛΊΑΣ ἘΔΏΚΑΜΕΝ ὙΜΙ͂Ν. _For you know what charges we gave you_. See notes on this characteristic οἴδατε, 1 Thessalonians 1:5; 1 Thessalonians 2:1, above. Οἴδατε τὰς παραγγελίας ἅ...
ΠΑΡΑΓΓΕΛΊΑ (G3852) приказ, повеление, наставление. Это слово часто обозначает приказ, полученный от старшего по званию, который надо передать остальным. Здесь _pl._ указывает на особые принципы или пр...
TEXT (1 Thessalonians 4:1-2) 1 FINALLY THEN, BRETHREN, WE BESEECH AND EXHORT YOU IN THE LORD JESUS, THAT, AS YE RECEIVED OF US HOW YE OUGHT TO WALK AND TO PLEASE GOD, EVEN AS YE DO WALK,THAT YE ABOUN...
For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus. BY THE LORD JESUS - by His authority, not by our own. He uses the strong term "commandments" [ parangelias (G3852)], in writing to this...
THE LORD'S PRESENCE 12 Paul gives us the true motive and incentive of a holy life and a steadfast faith. It springs from the overflow of love to our fellow saints and to all others as well. It looks f...
EXHORTATION TO PURITY AND BROTHERLY LOVE. THE SECOND ADVENT 1. 'You are already walking in the right path. I want you to advance in it more and more.' 3, 4. Translate, 'For this is a thing willed by...
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 4 HOW YOU OUGHT TO LIVE 4:1-8 V1 Brothers and sisters, y...
FOR YE KNOW. — He calls on the Thessalonians’ memory to support his statement, “ye received;” at the same time awakening their interest to catch the special point next to come, by laying stress on “w_...
CHAPTER 9 PERSONAL PURITY 1 Thessalonians 4:1 (R.V.) THE "finally" with which this chapter opens is the beginning of the end of the Epistle. The personal matter which has hitherto occupied us was th...
Almost a parenthesis, as Bahnsen points out in his study of 1 12 (_Zeitschrift f. wiss. Theol._, 1904, 332 358). The injunctions (παραγγελίαι in semimilitary sense, as 1 Timothy 1:18) relate to chasti...
CALLED TO SANCTIFICATION 1 Thessalonians 4:1 The first paragraph of this chapter exhorts to purity, the second to industry, the third to expectation of the Second Advent. But the three are closely co...
At this point in his letter the apostle turned to exhortation. Timothy's report concerning the Thessalonians' condition had indicated that they needed some words of kindly warning. The first subject i...
"AS TO THE REST" The use of the word "finally" in 1 Thessalonians 4:1 does not mark the end but a transition. We might say, "As to the other matters," or "As to the rest." Because of his love for them...
(1) В¶ 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. (2) For ye...
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...
The apostle then turns to the dangers that beset the Thessalonians in consequence of their former habits (and which were still those of the persons that surrounded them), habits in direct contradictio...
FOR YE KNOW WHAT COMMANDMENTS WE GAVE YOU,.... When among them; such as those of faith and love, the ordinances of the Gospel, baptism, and the Lord's supper, and all such as relate to the worship and...
For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus. Ver. 2. _For ye know what, &c._] It is expected therefore that ye do them; else the more heinous will be your sin, and the more heavy your...
_Furthermore_ Το λοιπον, _as for what remains to be said_, in subserviency to the important end of your being presented before God in the final judgment, perfected in holiness; _we beseech you, by the...
WARNING REGARDING VARIOUS SINS. Concerning concupiscence:...
FOR WE KNOW WHAT COMMANDMENTS WE GAVE YOU BY THE LORD JESUS....
The end of Chapter 3 has encouraged their abounding love. Here the apostle adds to this the entreaty that they abound in obedience. No amount of love can make up for a disobedient walk, for love and o...
IV. Instructions about how to live, 4:1-5:11 A. The problem of sexual immorality, 4:1-8 1 FURTHERMORE THEN WE BESEECH YOU, BRETHREN, AND EXHORT [YOU] BY THE LORD JESUS, THAT AS YE HAVE RECEIVED OF U...
“FOR YE KNOW WHAT CHARGE WE GAVE YOU THROUGH THE LORD JESUS” “For ye know”: “Again Paul looks back to the days of his visit to assure them that he is doing no more than lead them along the way he had...
1-8 To abide in the faith of the gospel is not enough, we must abound in the work of faith. The rule according to which all ought to walk and act, is the commandments given by the Lord Jesus Christ....
This explains what he said before; what they had received of him about their walking he here calls COMMANDMENTS, not so much his own as the Lord s, as the word itself imports here used, and is express...
For ye know what charge we gave you through the Lord Jesus. [The commandments were given by Paul through the inspiration of the Spirit sent of Jesus. Throughout this chapter Paul asserts his inspirati...
1 Thessalonians 4:2 for G1063 know G1492 (G5758) what G5101 commandments G3852 gave G1325 (G5656) you G5213
‘For you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus'. This defines what they had received. Direct commandments from the Lord Jesus, as found through the authority of the teaching of Jes...
1 Thessalonians 4:2. FOR YE KNOW. I give you no new code of morals, but beseech you to live up to the instructions I formerly gave you. I refer you to my original teaching, ‘for ye know,' etc. BY TH...
_Exhortation to Holiness of Life._ As in all his Epistles Paul at least concludes with a strenuous and full inculcation of moral duties, so here he reiterates to the Thessalonians those precepts and w...
WHAT CHARGE (τινας παραγγελιας). Plural, charges or precepts, command (Acts 16:24), prohibition (Acts 5:28), right living (1 Timothy 1:5). Military term in Xenophon and Polybius....
CONTENTS: The model walk of the believer. The hope of Christ's return. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: The design of the Gospel is to teach men not only what they should believe, but also how t...
1 Thessalonians 4:1. _We beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us_ the moral maxims of life and conduct, not only in word but also in writing, _how ye ou...
1 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 1 THESSALONIANS 4:2 INSTRUCTIONS. Originally a military word, it usually conveys authoritative commands. ⇐...
1 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 1 THESSALONIANS 4:1 Instruction and Exhortation. Paul gives instructions on pleasing God (1 Thessalonians 4:1), the seco
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 1 Thessalonians 4:1. AND TO PLEASE GOD, SO YE WOULD ABOUND MORE AND MORE.—R.V. inserts “even as ye do walk after God.” 1 Thessalonians 4:2. WHAT COMMANDMENTS.—R.V. “c...
EXPOSITION CONTENTS.—With this chapter the second portion of the Epistle—its practical application-commences. The apostle exhorts and entreats the Thessalonians to make progress in the Christian life,...
Let's turn to first Thessalonians chapter four. Paul the apostle was called of God by the Spirit to go to Macedonia, as he saw in a vision a man from Macedonia saying, "Come over and help us." It was...
1 Corinthians 9:21; 2 Thessalonians 3:10; 2 Thessalonians 3:6; Ezekiel 3:17;...
Commandments [π α ρ α γ γ ε λ ι α ς]. Better, charges. Only four times in N. T. o LXX The verb paraggellein to command or charge is frequent, and is often used in Class of military orders. See Xen. Cy...
Here our apostle subjoins. reason, to enforce his foregoing exhortation; what he now required of them, was nothing but what at their first conversion to Christianity he had commanded them, and that in...