1 Thessalonians 1 - Greeting
Read kjv 1 thessalonians chapter 1: A Model Faith And Turning From Idols
This is one of Paul's earliest letters, written to a young church facing persecution. He writes to encourage them that their spiritual birth was genuine and powerful.
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Discover that the 'patience of hope' Paul mentions is not a passive waiting, but a courageous, active endurance in the face of suffering. The Word Secret is Tupos, translated as 'ensample' or 'model,' which originally referred to the mark left by a blow or a stamp for a coin. The riches of 1 thessalonians 1 explained containing expert led word study (original greek/hebrew) and passage level analysis.
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1 Thessalonians chapter 1
Thanksgiving for their Work, Labor, and Patience
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, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
2 We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;
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;
4 Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.
The Gospel in Power and Example
5 For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.
6 And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost.
7 So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.
The Famous Report of their Conversion
8 For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.
9 For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;
10 And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.