2 Thessalonians 1:11,12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Bible Comments

(11) В¶ Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power: (12) That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

I pray the Reader to observe how sweetly Paul closeth the Chapter, as he had began, with prayer. What can be more proper for ministers, than to open and close all their ministerial services in the same manner. By the Lord's counting the people worthy of this calling, cannot be supposed to mean any worthiness in them, for he had before ascribed all to the grace of God. But the counting worthy of this calling, means the Lord's counting them one with Jesus; so that now, when the Church comes to be glorified in Jesus, the blessed testimonies of all that is past may appear in their first call by grace, and their being justified, adopted, sanctified, and the whole events they had past through, from grace to glory, might show their union and oneness with Christ from everlasting; so, that as all along their lives had been hid with Christ in God; now, when Christ, who is their life, appears, they appear with him in glory. Colossians 3:3-4.

2 Thessalonians 1:11-12

11 Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would countc you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:

12 That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.