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1 Thessalonians (KJV)

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About the Book of 1 Thessalonians

First Thessalonians encourages a young church to stand firm under persecution and to grow in holiness and love. It comforts believers grieving their dead with the hope of Christ's return.

Genre
Epistle
Author
The apostle Paul
First audience
The church in Thessalonica

How to read it: Read with its pastoral occasion in mind; note how Paul reassures a new, persecuted church and clarifies their hope.

It opens: “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.” (1 Thessalonians 1:1)

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Key verses in 1 Thessalonians

The verses of 1 Thessalonians that the rest of Scripture cross-references most often.

  • And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • Pray without ceasing.

  • Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.

  • Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

  • For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

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