1 Paul, Silas[Greek Silvanus, a variant of Silas] and Timothy,
To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
2 Grace and peace to you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Thanksgiving and Prayer
3 We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters,[The Greek word for brothers and sisters (adelphoi) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God’s family; also in 2:1, 13, 15; 3:1, 6, 13. ] and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing. 4 Therefore, among God’s churches we boast about your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring.
5 All this is evidence that God’s judgment is right, and as a result, you will be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering. 6 God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you 7 and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels. 8 He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 9 They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might 10 on the day he comes to be glorified in his holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed. This includes you, because you believed our testimony to you.
11 With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may bring to fruition your every desire for goodness and your every deed prompted by faith. 12 We pray this so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.[Or God and Lord, Jesus Christ ]
NOTES:
1:1–2 On the address, see note on Rom 1:1–7 and cf. 1 Thes
1:1.
1:3–12 On the thanksgiving, see note on Rom 1:8 and cf. 1
Thes 1:2–10. Paul’s gratitude to God for the faith and love of the
Thessalonians (2 Thes 1:3) and his Christian pride in their faithful endurance
(2 Thes 1:4–5) contrast with the condemnation announced for those who afflict
them, a judgment to be carried out at the parousia (2 Thes 1:6–10), which is
described in vivid language drawn from Old Testament apocalyptic. A prayer for
the fulfillment of God’s purpose in the Thessalonians (2 Thes 1:11–12)
completes the section, as is customary in a Pauline letter (cf. 1 Thes 1:2–3).
1:10 Among his holy ones: in the Old Testament, this term
can refer to an angelic throng (cf. also Jude 14), but here, in parallel with
among all who have believed, it can refer to the triumphant people of God.
1:12 The grace of our God and Lord Jesus Christ: the Greek
can also be translated, “the grace of our God and of the Lord Jesus Christ.”
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