Knowing. App-132.
beloved. App-135.
election. Greek. ekloge. See Acts 9:15.
Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God - The margin here reads, “beloved of God, your election.” The difference depends merely on the po...
Knowing, brethren beloved, your (a) election of God. (a) Literally, "that your election is of God".
Thanksgiving for the Past. As in all his epistles except Gal., Paul commences with a paragraph of congratulation, singling out for special praise t...
4 Knowing, brethren beloved. The participle knowing may apply to Paul as well as to the Thessalonians. Erasmus refers it to the Thessaloni...
DISCOURSE: 2191 TRUE PIETY DESCRIBED 1 Thessalonians 1:2-4 . We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers; rem...
Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God. Knowing your election of God - Being assured, from the doctrine which I have delivered to you, and w...
Knowing, brethren beloved, &c.— This Epistle being, as we have observed, directed principally to converted Gentiles, who were once idolaters, t...
Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God. Knowing - as we know. The three participles ( 1 Thessalonians 1:2-4 ) give the time, manner,...
Salutation and Thanksgiving 1. Salutation. For Silvanus (Silas) see Acts 15:22 ; Acts 16:20 ; Acts 16:37 ; Acts 16:38 . Timothy was one of St....
Better, 'Knowing, brethren beloved of God, your election, how that,' etc. 'Election,' i.e. to Christian and Church privileges ( 2 Timothy 2:10 ).
“The reason why the sight delights us is because it proves that God loves you, and has set His heart upon you.” Beloved. — The proper translation...
Chapter 2 THE THANKSGIVING. 1 Thessalonians 1:2-4 (R.V.) THE salutation in St. Paul's epistles is regularly followed by the thanksgiving. Once...
Imitators and Examples 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10 This chapter abounds in thanksgiving; and the Apostle recites the many beautiful and hopeful trai...
This letter was intended as a message of comfort and instruction to those who were in the midst of persecution. In writing, the apostle associated hi...
(4) Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God. (5) For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and...
Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God. Which intends not an election to an office, for this epistle is written not to the officers of the...
Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God. Ver. 4. Knowing, brethren beloved of God ] Knowing it by the judgment of charity, not of infalli...
We give thanks , &c. From hence to 1 Thessalonians 3:13 , we have the chief object of this epistle, which was to comfort, strengthen, and estab...
Only in the two epistles to the Thessalonians does Paul include the names of his two co-workers, Silas and Timothy, in his addressing them. Also only...
Thanksgiving to God. A. D. 51. 2 We give t...
Another ground of his thanksgiving for them. By the manner of their receiving the gospel, and the evident operation of the graces of God's Spirit, th...
‘We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers, remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love,...
‘Knowing, brothers beloved of God, your election, how that our Good News did not come to you in word only, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit a...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES 1 Thessalonians 1:3 . Work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope. —The famous three sister-graces fa...
1 Thessalonians 1:4-6 I. The Apostle shows in these verses on what grounds his knowledge rested his conviction of the Thessalonians' election the...
1 Thessalonians 1:1 . Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Chri...
1 Thessalonians 1:1 . Paul and Silvanus. The latter is so denominated in other passages of scripture, that being the name by which he was known to...
We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers Ministerial thanksgiving I. Is expansive in its character. It i...
Remembering without ceasing your work of faith The three graces at work I. The work of faith. Faith is an active principle, and St. James has dea...
Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God Election I. The election “of God” is not connected with “knowing” nor “election.” The meaning...
EXPOSITION CONTENTS .—Paul, after the address and salutation, testifies that he renders constant thanks to God for the Thessalonians, calling t...
Introduction and Thanksgiving.
knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God. In this, probably the first letter written by St. Paul to any congregation, we find all the chara...
1 Peter 1:2 ; 1 Thessalonians 1:3 ; 2 Peter 1:10 ; 2 Thessalonians 2:13 ; 2 Timothy 1:10 ; 2 Timothy 1:9 ; Colossians 3:12 ; Ephesians 1:4 ;...
The Model Church 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10 INTRODUCTORY WORDS On this earth we may expect to find no church model in all things. Even the Twelve...
Knowing your election — Which is through faith, by these plain proofs.
4 Knowing, brethren beloved,a your election of God.