At the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ; when the result of God's work of sanctification in the hearts of believers shall be made manifest in its perfection. Increasing love to Christians on account of their attachment and likeness to Christ, and earnest desires to promote the highest good of men, are powerful means of perseverance in holiness and preparation for heaven.
1 THESSALONIANS 3:13 auvtou/@( avmh,n#) {C} Was avmh,n dropped by copyists who thought it inappropriate in the body of a Pauline epistle (just as avmh,n was omitted by a scattering of witnesses at th...
Verse 1 Thessalonians 3:13. _TO THE END HE MAY ESTABLISH YOUR HEARTS_] Without _love_ to God and man, there can be no establishment in the religion of Christ. It is _love_ that produces both _solidit...
TO THE END HE MAY STABLISH YOUR HEARTS - That is, “may the Lord cause you to increase in love 1 Thessalonians 3:12, in order that you may be established, and be without blame in the day of judgment.”...
III. AFFLICTIONS AND COMFORT CHAPTER 3 _ 1. Timotheus, Paul's messenger 1 Thessalonians 3:1)_ 2. His return with good tidings and the apostle's comfort and joy 1 Thessalonians 3:6) 3. This earnest...
THE MISSION OF TIMOTHY TO THESSALONICA. Paul's distress and anxiety with regard to the fate of the Church led him to send Timothy upon a mission of inquiry. He describes the effect produced upon him b...
May he who is our God and Father and the Lord Jesus Christ direct our way to you. May the Lord increase you and make you to abound in love to each other and to all men, even as we do towards you, in o...
THE PASTOR AND HIS FLOCK (1 Thessalonians 3:1-10)...
TO THE END. App-104. STABLISH Greek. _sterizo._ See Romans 1:11. UNBLAMEABLE. Greek. _amemptos._ See Philippians 1:2; Philippians 1:15. HOLINESS. Greek. _hagiosune_. See
section iv St Paul's Present Relations to the Thessalonians. Ch. 1 Thessalonians 2:17 to 1 Thessalonians 3:13 The Apostle had been drawn aside in the last paragraph, by a sudden and characteristic b...
_to the end he may stablish your hearts_ On "stablish" see note to 1 Thessalonians 3:2; and on "hearts," ch. 1 Thessalonians 2:4; comp. also 2 Thessalonians 2:17. This is an O.T. phrase, f
§ 6. 1 Thessalonians 3:6-13. The Good News brought by Timothy Timothy has just returned from Thessalonica; and his report is entirely reassuring (1 Thessalonians 3:6), so that it gives new life to Pau...
ΑΜΕΜΠ-τως, for -ΤΟΥΣ, BL: perhaps due to 1 Thessalonians 2:10; 1 Thessalonians 5:23. See Expository Note. αγιοσυνῃ: this unusual spelling in B*DG—a frequent itacism (ο for ω). So DG in...
ΣΤΗΡΊΞΑΙ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΣΤΗΡΊΣΣΩ (G4741) устанавливать ΕΙΣ ΤΌ ΣΤΗΡΊΞΑΙ. Предлог и _aor. inf._ с артиклем выражают цель. О значении слова "устанавливать" _см._ 1 Thessalonians 3:2. ΑΜΕΜΠΤΟΣ (G273...
DISCOURSE: 2200 THE EFFECT OF LOVE ON UNIVERSAL HOLINESS 1 Thessalonians 3:12. _The Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you: to t...
THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST WITH ALL HIS SAINTS.— How often and how skilfully does St. Paul mention the Lord Jesus Christ, and his coming to judgment, to support and animate them both to do an...
TEXT (1 Thessalonians 3:13) 13 TO THE END HE MAY ESTABLISH YOUR HEARTS UNBLAMABLE IN HOLINESS BEFORE OUR GOD AND FATHER, AT THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS WITH ALL HIS SAINTS. Translation and Paraphra...
To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints. YOUR HEARTS - naturally the spring of unholi...
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...
3:13 holiness (d-11) _ Hagiosune_ . See Note i at Romans 1:4 ....
THE APOSTLE'S ANXIETY ABOUT HIS CONVERTS 1. Forbear] better, 'endure the suspense.'...
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 3 WHY THEY SENT TIMOTHY 3:1-5 V1 When we could wait no l...
TO THE END. — A beautiful connection of thought. Perfect and settled sanctification in the eyes of God is the object in view, and the means by which it is to be attained is growing and overflowing lov...
CHAPTER 8 LOVE AND PRAYERS 1 Thessalonians 3:6 (R.V.) THESE verses present no peculiar difficulty to the expositor. They illustrate the remark of Bengel that the First Epistle to the Thessalonians i...
CHAPTER 7 ABSENCE AND LONGING 1 Thessalonians 2:17; 1 Thessalonians 3:1 (R.V.) THE Apostle has said all that he means to say of the opposition of the Jews to the gospel, and in the verses before us...
The security and purity of the Christian life are rested upon its brotherly love (so Ep. Arist., 229); all breaches or defects of ἁγιωσύνη, it is implied, are due to failures there (_cf._ 1 Thessaloni...
to 1 Thessalonians 3:13. Paul's _apologia pro absentia suâ_....
AWAKENING THANKSGIVING AND INTERCESSION 1 Thessalonians 3:1 At the outset observe that marginal reading by which Timothy is described as _a fellow-worker with God_. What a wonderful phrase, and yet i...
The special purpose of the next movement in his letter was the strengthening of the Thessalonians in their sufferings. Their "work of faith" had brought them into a place of service which entailed suf...
PAUL'S PRAYER FOR THE CHURCH IN THESSALONICA Paul's prayer, directed to the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, clearly shows he thought Jesus was God too. Such is emphasized by the singular verb being...
(11) В¶ Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you. (12) And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we...
REFLECTIONS Who can behold the affection, manifested by the Apostle to the Church, as set forth in this Chapter, without being struck with the conviction, that there is, there must be, in every faithf...
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...
13_That he may confirm your hearts_. He employs the term _hearts _here to mean _conscience_, or the innermost part of the soul; for he means that a man is acceptable to God only when he brings holines...
Now this forced removal of the apostle as the chief labourer, without weakening the bond between him and the disciples, formed other links which would consolidate and strengthen the assembly, knitting...
TO THE END HE MAY STABLISH YOUR HEARTS,.... Which are very unstable and inconstant in their frames, and in the exercise of grace, and have need to be established in the love of God, against the fears...
To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints. Ver. 13. _To the end he may stablish_] Love is...
1 Thes. 3:13. "To the end he may stablish your hearts unblamable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints." This and these other parallel tex...
_What thanks can we render to God_ That is, what sufficient thanks; _for you_ On account of your perseverance; _for all the joy_ That I have thereby such unfeigned cause of rejoicing; so that the apos...
The apostle prays for their further establishment in faith and love:...
TO THE END HE MAY ESTABLISH YOUR HEARTS UNBLAMABLE IN HOLINESS BEFORE GOD, EVEN OUR FATHER, AT THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST WITH ALL HIS SAINTS. Paul here rises to an enthusiasm bordering on ec...
Paul had been driven by persecution from Thessalonica, then from Berea to Athens. Alone at Athens for a time (Acts 17:1), he sent word for Silas and Timothy to come to him with all speed (17:15). Evid...
E. Paul's prayer, 3:11-13 11 NOW GOD HIMSELF AND OUR FATHER, AND OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, DIRECT OUR WAY UNTO YOU. DIRECT: OR, GUIDE 12 And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward...
“TO THE END HE MAY ESTABLISH YOUR HEARTS UNBLAMEABLE IN HOLINESS BEFORE OUR GOD AND FATHER, AT THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS WITH ALL HIS SAINTS: “To the end”: “So that”. This verse infers that the bi...
11-13 Prayer is religious worship, and all religious worship is due unto God only. Prayer is to be offered to God as our Father. Prayer is not only to be offered in the name of Christ, but offered up...
These words some refer only to the verse immediately preceding: by increasing and abounding in love, their hearts would be established UNBLAMABLE IN HOLINESS. Which is true, for that holiness is justl...
to the end he may establish your hearts unblamable in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints. [The "you" of verse 12 is emphatic, and stands in contras...
Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh Likewise: "Before God, even our Father, at the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, with the whole company of His saints."[165]...
1 Thessalonians 3:13 that G1519 establish G4741 (G5658) your G5216 hearts G2588 blameless G273 in G1722 holiness...
‘Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you. And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love, one toward another, and towards all men, even as we also do toward...
1 Thessalonians 3:13. THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. This Paul looks forward to as the time when those who are holy shall be acknowledged and manifested as such; and beyond which there is no fea...
_Paul describes the Feelings he had towards the Thessalonians after he had left them._ This paragraph is remarkable chiefly as a manifestation of the ardent affection which Paul felt for his churches....
TO THE END HE MAY STABLISH (εις το στηριξα). Another example of εις and the articular infinitive of purpose. Same idiom in 1 Thessalonians 3:2. From στηριζω, from στηριγξ, a support.UNBLAMEABLE ...
1 Thessalonians 3:11 I. We have to notice very carefully to whom this ejaculatory prayer is addressed: Now God Himself, even our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. It is quite evident that our Lord and...
CONTENTS: The model Christian brotherhood. The sanctification of the believer. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Timothy. CONCLUSION: It is easy for the servant of Christ to bear afflictions or persecut...
1 Thessalonians 3:1. _Wherefore, when we could no longer forbear,_ seeing you were so oppressed with persecutions, we sent Timothy, and preferred being left agone without a fellow-labourer at Athens....
HE WILL MAKE YOUR HEARTS STRONG. Love makes us "unshakable!" See Romans 13:8....
1 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 1 THESSALONIANS 3:13 Jesus will someday return WITH ALL HIS SAINTS (or “holy ones”—angels, Christians, or, most likely, both; compare...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 1 Thessalonians 3:11. DIRECT OUR WAY UNTO YOU.— Acts 16:6 should be read. Satan might hinder (1 Thessalonians 2:18); if God “makes straight” the way, progress will
EXPOSITION CONTENTS.—The apostle, no longer able to repress his longing and anxiety for the Thessalonians, resolved to be left alone at Athens, and sent Timothy for the purpose of exhorting them to en...
WHEREFORE when we could no longer forbear, we thought it would be good to be left at Athens alone; And we sent Timothy, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellow laborer in the gospel of Christ...
1 Corinthians 1:7; 1 Corinthians 1:8; 1 Corinthians 15:23; 1 John 3:20;...
With all his saints [μ ε τ α π α ν τ ω ν τ ω ν α γ ι ω ν α υ τ ο υ]. Saints is often explained as angels; but the meaning is the holy and glorified people of God. OiJ agioi is uniformly used of these...
With all his, Christ's, saints — Both angels and men....
Here. particular and special reason is assigned, why he prayed so fervently for their abounding in love, namely, in order to their establishment IN FAITH AND HOLINESS; teaching us, that as true love e...