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It is widely agreed that 1 Thessalonians is one of the first books of the New Testament to be written, and the earliest extant Christian text. [5] A majority of modern New Testament scholars date 1 Thessalonians to 49–51 AD, [11] during Paul's 18-month stay in Corinth coinciding with his second missionary journey. [12]
“Rejoice always.” — 1 Thessalonians 5:16 ... “And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you.” — 1 Thessalonians 3:12.
From this hypothesis he contrasted 2 Thessalonians 3:5 with 1 Thessalonians 3:13 and contended that 2 Thessalonians was written sometime after Paul's death. Still, some see the texts in 2 Thessalonians that seem to elevate the role of Christ as overblown.
[3] In 1 Thessalonians 5:8, he refers to this triad of virtues again, "But since we are of the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love and the helmet that is hope for salvation." [4] In 1 Corinthians 13, Paul places the greater emphasis on Charity (Love). "So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of ...
The first English New Testament to use the verse divisions was a 1557 translation by William Whittingham (c. 1524–1579). The first Bible in English to use both chapters and verses was the Geneva Bible published shortly afterwards by Sir Rowland Hill [21] in 1560. These verse divisions soon gained acceptance as a standard way to notate verses ...
There is a difference between God's wrath and the tribulation in the posttribulation view. Christians do not experience the wrath of God according to 1 Thessalonians 1:9–10 and 1 Thessalonians 5:9, but they are not promised immunity from persecution by God's enemies. In the Great Tribulation, God pours out his wrath on the wicked, but ...
Codex Freerianus, designated by I or 016 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 1041 (), also called the Washington Manuscript of the Pauline Epistles, is a 5th-century manuscript in an uncial hand on vellum in Greek.
Some scholars believed that Paul of Tarsus' First Epistle to the Thessalonians mentions Hellenized Jews in the city about 52 CE. This is based on certain interpretation of 1 Thessalonians 2:14 "For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus. For you also suffered the same things from your own ...