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Fragments showing 1 Thessalonians 1:3–2:1 and 2:6–13 on Papyrus 65, from the third century. The First Epistle to the Thessalonians [a] is a Pauline epistle of the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The epistle is attributed to Paul the Apostle, and is addressed to the church in Thessalonica, in modern-day Greece.
Chapter and verse divisions did not appear in the original texts of Jewish or Christian bibles; such divisions form part of the paratext of the Bible.Since the early 13th century, most copies and editions of the Bible have presented all but the shortest of the scriptural books with divisions into chapters, generally a page or so in length.
Even the King James Version had doubts about this verse, as it provided (in the original 1611 edition and still in many high-quality editions) a sidenote that said, "This 36th verse is wanting in most of the Greek copies." This verse is missing from Tyndale's version (1534) and the Geneva Bible (1557).
The New King James Version (NKJV) is a translation of the Bible in contemporary English. Published by Thomas Nelson, the complete NKJV was released in 1982.With regard to its textual basis, the NKJV relies on a modern critical edition (the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia) for the Old Testament, [1] while opting to use the Textus Receptus for the New Testament.
King James Bible [note 1] Clementine Vulgate Douay Rheims Full title in the Authorised Version; 1 Esdras: 3 Esdrae: 3 Esdras: The First Book of Esdras 2 Esdras: 4 Esdrae: 4 Esdras: The Second Book of Esdras Tobit: Tobiae: Tobias: Tobit Judith: Judith Rest of Esther: Esther 10,4 – 16,24: Esther 10:4 – 16:24: The Rest of the Chapters of the ...
A 2015 report by the California-based Barna Group found that 39% of American readers of the Bible preferred the King James Version, followed by 13% for the New International Version, 10% for the New King James Version and 8% for the English Standard Version. No other version was favoured by more than 3% of the survey respondents. [54]
By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. [13]It is the will of God that the believers be sanctified (cf. 1 Thessalonians 4:3) and Christ's act of obedience made God's will his own, because Christ's death conformed to God's will (Galatians 1:4; Ephesians 1:5–11; 1 Peter 3:17) and Christ's obedience—attested in the Gethsemane story ...
In 2001, Crossway published the English Standard Version (ESV), its revision of the 1971 text edition of the RSV. [14] In comparison to the RSV, the ESV reverts certain disputed passages to their prior rendering as found in the ASV. [a] Unlike the NRSV, the ESV, depending on the context, prefers to use gender-inclusive language sparingly. [17]