1 Thessalonians 5:23 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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. ”

1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the very God of peace - The God who gives peace or happiness; compare notes, Romans 1:7 . Sanctify you - See the notes at John 17:17 . Wholly - ὁλοτελεῖς holoteleis. In every...
1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And the very God of peace (i) 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. (i) Separate you from the wor...
1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Conclusion. 1 Thessalonians 5:23 . The closing benediction commending the Thessalonian Christians to God. spirit and soul and body: if we press the phrase, human nature is threefold, consisting...
1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

the very, &c . = may the God of peace Himself. Compare Acts 7:2 . Hebrews 13:20 . sanctify . See John 17:17 . wholly . Greek. holoteles. Only here. whole, &c Read, "your spirit an...
1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

23 Now the God of peace himself. Having given various injunctions, he now proceeds to prayer. And unquestionably doctrine is disseminated in vain, (620) unless God implant it in our minds. F...
1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 2209 COMPLETE SANCTIFICATION TO BE SOUGHT AFTER 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 . The very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved bl...
1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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. And the very God of peace - That s...
1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Prove all things, &c.— Though they were not to despise prophesyings, yet they were not to receive every thing which might be so called; but to prove and examine all things that went under...
1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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. And - `But' х de ( G1161...
1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Need of Watchfulness. Final Injunctions 1. Times and seasons] St. Paul always lays stress on the uncertainty as to the time of the Advent ( 2 Thessalonians 2:2 cp. 2 Peter 3:3-4 ).
1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

And. — The logic of such an expression as, “Do this, and may you be happy,” lies in the writer’s own connection with both the command and the prayer: “I bid you abstain from every evil kind of thin...
1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 16 CONCLUSION 1 Thessalonians 5:23-28 (R.V.) THESE verses open with a contrast to what precedes, which is more strongly brought out in the original than in the translation. The Apostle...
1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“Without Blame” at His Coming 1 Thessalonians 5:12-28 The remainder of the chapter is filled with brief sentences of exhortation, like cablegrams from our Heavenly Captain to his soldiers, who,...
1 Thessalonians 5:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Under the figure of a camp in which fully armed soldiers are waiting for the break of day, while those not expecting this are sleeping and drunken, the apostle shows that those waiting for the Son ar...
1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(12) And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; (13) And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at pe...
1 Thessalonians 5:23 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

WHOLLY SANCTIFIED ‘The very God of peace sanctify you wholly.’ 1 Thessalonians 5:23 Has God, the God of peace, taken possession of our whole spirit? Have we given Him our spirit? Nay, have w...
1 Thessalonians 5:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the very God of peace ,.... Or "the God of peace himself". The apostle follows his exhortations with prayer to God, knowing the weakness and impotency of the saints to receive them, and act acco...
1 Thessalonians 5:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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. Ver. 23. That your whole spiri...
1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And the very God of peace Αυτος δε ο Θεος της ειρηνης, literally, May the God of peace himself; that is, he who is ready to give you peace with himself after all you have done; who is in Christ r...
1 Thessalonians 5:23 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

In contrast to the new revelation Paul gives at the end of ch. 4, he now tells them in ch. 5 that "of the times and seasons" there was no need to write, for this was a matter of which they were well...
1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Paul's Prayer for the Thessalonians. A. D. 51. 23 And the very God of peace sanctify you who...
1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

OLBGrk; The apostle here concludes all with prayer, as knowing all his exhortations and admonitions before given would not be effectual without God; and he prays for their sanctification and preserv...
1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly, and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved entire, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is he who calls you who al...
1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES 1 Thessalonians 5:23 . Sanctify you wholly. —“Rather—unto completeness. The apostle prays that they may be sanctified to the fullest extent” ( Ibid. ). Your whole...
1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Scofield Reference Notes

whole spirit and soul and body Man as a trinity. That the human soul and spirit are not identical is proved by the facts that they are divisible, ( Hebrews 4:12 ), and that soul and spirit are...
1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Sermon Bible Commentary

1 Thessalonians 5:23 St. Paul implies in the text that all three branches of our complicated nature are to undergo sanctification that this leavening process is to go through the entire mass, unti...
1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:1-2 . But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night....
1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Thessalonians 5:1 . Of the times and seaso n s, ye have no need that I write to you. Paul as a prophet might have said much concerning the dispensations of providence which should attend the ch...
1 Thessalonians 5:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

The very God of peace sanctify you wholly A short but comprehensive prayer The apostle had told the Thessalonians in the beginning of his Epistle, that he always made mention of them in his pr...
1 Thessalonians 5:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION CONTENTS .—With regard to the time of that glorious advent when believers, whether dead or living, will be gathered together to Christ, the Thessalonians had already been fully instr...
1 Thessalonians 5:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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.
1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 1:2 ; 1 Corinthians 1:8 ; 1 Corinthians 1:9 ; 1 Corinthians 14:33 ; 1 Peter 1:2 ; 1 Peter 5:10 ; 1 Thessalonians 3:13 ; 1 Thessalonians 4:3 ; 2 Corinthians 5:19 ; 2 Thessaloni...
1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Sanctification 1 Thessalonians 4:3-7 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:15-28 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The doctrine of sanctification has been abused, but that does not mean that we should steer clear of God'...
1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

And may the God of peace sanctify you — By the peace he works in you, which is a great means of sanctification. Wholly — The word signifies wholly and perfectly; every part and all that concerns yo...

1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

1 Thessalonians 5:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 Thessalonians 5:23 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

1 Thessalonians 5:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Thessalonians 5:23 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Scofield Reference Notes

1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Sermon Bible Commentary

1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Thessalonians 5:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

1 Thessalonians 5:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 Thessalonians 5:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

1 Thessalonians 5:23 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes