Bible Study ToolsBible Versions1 Thessalonians1 Thessalonians 11 Thessalonians 1:3Compare Translations Compare Translations for 1 Thessalonians 1:3 Compare Translations 1 Thessalonians 1:3 ASV American Standard Version remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father; Read 1 Thessalonians 1 ASV | Read 1 Thessalonians 1:3 ASV in parallel 1 Thessalonians 1:3 BBE Bible in Basic English Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father; Read 1 Thessalonians 1 BBE | Read 1 Thessalonians 1:3 BBE in parallel 1 Thessalonians 1:3 CEB Common English Bible This is because we remember your work that comes from faith, your effort that comes from love, and your perseverance that comes from hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father. Read 1 Thessalonians 1 CEB | Read 1 Thessalonians 1:3 CEB in parallel 1 Thessalonians 1:3 CJB Complete Jewish Bible calling to mind before God our Father what our Lord Yeshua the Messiah has brought about in you - how your trust produces action, your love hard work, and your hope perseverance. Read 1 Thessalonians 1 CJB | Read 1 Thessalonians 1:3 CJB in parallel 1 Thessalonians 1:3 RHE Douay-Rheims Being mindful of the work of your faith and labour and charity: and of the enduring of the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before God and our Father. Read 1 Thessalonians 1 RHE | Read 1 Thessalonians 1:3 RHE in parallel 1 Thessalonians 1:3 ESV English Standard Version remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. Read 1 Thessalonians 1 ESV | Read 1 Thessalonians 1:3 ESV in parallel 1 Thessalonians 1:3 GW GODS WORD Translation In the presence of our God and Father, we never forget that your faith is active, your love is working hard, and your confidence in our Lord Jesus Christ is enduring. Read 1 Thessalonians 1 GW | Read 1 Thessalonians 1:3 GW in parallel 1 Thessalonians 1:3 GNT Good News Translation For we remember before our God and Father how you put your faith into practice, how your love made you work so hard, and how your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ is firm. Read 1 Thessalonians 1 GNT | Read 1 Thessalonians 1:3 GNT in parallel 1 Thessalonians 1:3 HNV Hebrew Names Version remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, before our God and Father. Read 1 Thessalonians 1 HNV | Read 1 Thessalonians 1:3 HNV in parallel 1 Thessalonians 1:3 CSB Holman Christian Standard We recall, in the presence of our God and Father, your work of faith, labor of love, and endurance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, Read 1 Thessalonians 1 CSB | Read 1 Thessalonians 1:3 CSB in parallel 1 Thessalonians 1:3 KJV King James Version Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father; Read 1 Thessalonians 1 KJV | Read 1 Thessalonians 1:3 KJV in parallel | Interlinear view 1 Thessalonians 1:3 LEB Lexham English Bible [because we] remember your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father, Read 1 Thessalonians 1 LEB | Read 1 Thessalonians 1:3 LEB in parallel 1 Thessalonians 1:3 NAS New American Standard constantly bearing in mind your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father, Read 1 Thessalonians 1 NAS | Read 1 Thessalonians 1:3 NAS in parallel | Interlinear view 1 Thessalonians 1:3 NCV New Century Version We continually recall before God our Father the things you have done because of your faith and the work you have done because of your love. And we thank him that you continue to be strong because of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. Read 1 Thessalonians 1 NCV | Read 1 Thessalonians 1:3 NCV in parallel 1 Thessalonians 1:3 NIRV New International Readers Version We never forget you when we pray to our God and Father. Your work is produced by your faith. Your service is the result of your love. Your strength to continue comes from your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. Read 1 Thessalonians 1 NIRV | Read 1 Thessalonians 1:3 NIRV in parallel 1 Thessalonians 1:3 NIV New International Version We continually remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. Read 1 Thessalonians 1 NIV | Read 1 Thessalonians 1:3 NIV in parallel 1 Thessalonians 1:3 NKJV New King James Version remembering without ceasing your work of faith, labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of our God and Father, Read 1 Thessalonians 1 NKJV | Read 1 Thessalonians 1:3 NKJV in parallel 1 Thessalonians 1:3 NLT New Living Translation As we talk to our God and Father about you, we think of your faithful work, your loving deeds, and your continual anticipation of the return of our Lord Jesus Christ. Read 1 Thessalonians 1 NLT | Read 1 Thessalonians 1:3 NLT in parallel 1 Thessalonians 1:3 NRS New Revised Standard remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. Read 1 Thessalonians 1 NRS | Read 1 Thessalonians 1:3 NRS in parallel 1 Thessalonians 1:3 RSV Revised Standard Version remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. Read 1 Thessalonians 1 RSV | Read 1 Thessalonians 1:3 RSV in parallel 1 Thessalonians 1:3 DBY The Darby Translation remembering unceasingly your work of faith, and labour of love, and enduring constancy of hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father; Read 1 Thessalonians 1 DBY | Read 1 Thessalonians 1:3 DBY in parallel 1 Thessalonians 1:3 MSG The Message as we call to mind your work of faith, your labor of love, and your patience of hope in following our Master, Jesus Christ, before God our Father. Read 1 Thessalonians 1 MSG | Read 1 Thessalonians 1:3 MSG in parallel 1 Thessalonians 1:3 WBT The Webster Bible Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father; Read 1 Thessalonians 1 WBT | Read 1 Thessalonians 1:3 WBT in parallel 1 Thessalonians 1:3 TMB Third Millennium Bible remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father, Read 1 Thessalonians 1 TMB | Read 1 Thessalonians 1:3 TMB in parallel 1 Thessalonians 1:3 TNIV Todays New International Version We remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. Read 1 Thessalonians 1 TNIV | Read 1 Thessalonians 1:3 TNIV in parallel 1 Thessalonians 1:3 TYN Tyndale with out ceasynge and call to remembraunce youre worke in the faythe and labour in love and perseveraunce in the hope of oure lorde Iesus Christ in the sight of God oure father: Read 1 Thessalonians 1 TYN | Read 1 Thessalonians 1:3 TYN in parallel 1 Thessalonians 1:3 WNT Weymouth New Testament For we never fail to remember your works of faith and labours of love and your persistent and unwavering hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father; Read 1 Thessalonians 1 WNT | Read 1 Thessalonians 1:3 WNT in parallel 1 Thessalonians 1:3 WEB World English Bible remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father. Read 1 Thessalonians 1 WEB | Read 1 Thessalonians 1:3 WEB in parallel 1 Thessalonians 1:3 WYC Wycliffe having mind of the work of your faith, and travail, and charity [mindful of your work of faith, and travail, and charity], and abiding of the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, before God and our Father. Read 1 Thessalonians 1 WYC | Read 1 Thessalonians 1:3 WYC in parallel 1 Thessalonians 1:3 YLT Youngs Literal Translation unceasingly remembering of you the work of the faith, and the labour of the love, and the endurance of the hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father, Read 1 Thessalonians 1 YLT | Read 1 Thessalonians 1:3 YLT in parallel 1 Thessalonians 1 Commentary - Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise) Chapter 1 This epistle is generally considered to have been the first of those written by St. Paul. The occasion seems to have been the good report of the stedfastness of the church at Thessalonica in the faith of the gospel. It is full of affection and confidence, and more consolatory and practical, and less doctrinal, than some of the other epistles. The faith, love, and patience of the Thessalonians, are evident tokens of their election which was manifested in the power with which the gospel came to them. (1-5) Its powerful and exemplary effects upon their hearts and lives. (6-10) Verses 1-5 As all good comes from God, so no good can be hoped for by sinners, but from God in Christ. And the best good may be expected from God, as our Father, for the sake of Christ. We should pray, not only for ourselves, but for others also; remembering them without ceasing. Wherever there is a true faith, it will work; it will affect both the heart and life. Faith works by love; it shows itself in love to God, and love to our neighbour. And wherever there is a well-grounded hope of eternal life, this will appear by the exercise of patience; and it is a sign of sincerity, when in all we do, we seek to approve ourselves to God. By this we may know our election, if we not only speak of the things of God with out lips, but feel their power in our hearts, mortifying our lusts, weaning us from the world, and raising us up to heavenly things. Unless the Spirit of God comes with the word of God, it will be to us a dead letter. Thus they entertained it by the power of the Holy Ghost. They were fully convinced of the truth of it, so as not to be shaken in mind by objections and doubts; and they were willing to leave all for Christ, and to venture their souls and everlasting condition upon the truth of the gospel revelation. Verses 6-10 When careless, ignorant, and immoral persons are turned from their carnal pursuits and connexions, to believe in and obey the Lord Jesus, to live soberly, righteously, and godly, the matter speaks for itself. The believers under the Old Testament waited for the coming of the Messiah, and believers now wait for his second coming. He is yet to come. And God had raised him from the dead, which is a full assurance unto all men that he will come to judgment. He came to purchase salvation, and will, when he comes again, bring salvation with him, full and final deliverance from that wrath which is yet to come. Let all, without delay, flee from the wrath to come, and seek refuge in Christ and his salvation. 1 Thessalonians 1 Commentary - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible CHAPTER 1 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10 . ADDRESS: SALUTATION: HIS PRAYERFUL THANKSGIVING FOR THEIR FAITH, HOPE, AND LOVE. THEIR FIRST RECEPTION OF THE GOSPEL, AND THEIR GOOD INFLUENCE ON ALL AROUND. 1. Paul--He does not add an apostle, because in their case, as in that of the Philippians authority needs not any substantiation. He writes familiarly as to faithful friends, not but that his apostleship was recognized among them ( 1 Thessalonians 2:6 ). On the other hand, in writing to the Galatians, among whom some had called in question his apostleship, he strongly asserts it in the superscription. An undesigned propriety in the Epistles, evincing genuineness. Silvanus--a chief man among the brethren ( Acts 15:22 ), and a prophet ( Acts 15:32 ), and one of the deputies who carried the decree of the Jerusalem council to Antioch. His age and position cause him to be placed before Timothy, then a youth ( Acts 16:1 , 1 Timothy 4:12 ). Silvanus (the Gentile expanded form of Silas) is called in 1 Peter 5:12 , a faithful brother (compare 2 Corinthians 1:19 ). They both aided in planting the Thessalonian Church, and are therefore included in the address. This, the first of Pauls Epistles, as being written before various evils crept into the churches, is without the censures found in other Epistles. So realizing was their Christian faith, that they were able hourly to look for the Lord Jesus. unto the church--not merely as in the Epistles to Romans, Ephesians, Colossians, Philippians, to the saints, or the faithful at Thessalonica. Though as yet they do not seem to have had the final Church organization under permanent bishops and deacons, which appears in the later Epistles Second Timothy). Yet he designates them by the honorable term Church, implying their status as not merely isolated believers, but a corporate body with spiritual rulers ( 1 Thessalonians 5:12 , 2 Corinthians 1:1 , Galatians 1:2 ). in--implying vital union. God the Father--This marks that they were no longer heathen. the Lord Jesus Christ--This marks that they were not Jews, but Christians. Grace be unto you, and peace--that ye may have in God that favor and peace which men withhold [ANSELM]. This is the salutation in all the Epistles of Paul, except the three pastoral ones, which have grace, mercy, and peace. Some of the oldest manuscripts support, others omit the clause following, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. It may have crept in from 1 Corinthians 1:3 , 2 Corinthians 1:2 . 2. ( Romans 1:9 , 2 Timothy 1:3 .) The structure of the sentences in this and the following verses, each successive sentence repeating with greater fulness the preceding, characteristically marks Pauls abounding love and thankfulness in respect to his converts, as if he were seeking by words heaped on words to convey some idea of his exuberant feelings towards them. We--I, Silvanus, and Timotheus. Romans 1:9 supports ALFORD in translating, making mention of you in our prayers without ceasing ( 1 Thessalonians 1:3 ). Thus, without ceasing, in the second clause, answers in parallelism to always, in the first. 3. work of faith--the working reality of your faith; its alacrity in receiving the truth, and in evincing itself by its fruits. Not an otiose assent; but a realizing, working faith; not in word only, but in one continuous chain of work (singular, not plural, works), 1 Thessalonians 1:5-10 , 2:22 . So the work of faith in 2 Thessalonians 1:11 implies its perfect development (compare James 1:4 ). The other governing substantives similarly mark respectively the characteristic manifestation of the grace which follows each in the genitive. Faith, love, and hope, are the three great Christian graces ( 1 Thessalonians 5:8 , 1 Corinthians 13:13 ). labour of love--The Greek implies toil, or troublesome labor, which we are stimulated by love to bear ( 1 Thessalonians 2:9 , Revelation 2:2 ). For instances of self-denying labors of love, see Acts 20:35 , Romans 16:12 . Not here minis terial labors. Those who shun trouble for others, love little (compare Hebrews 6:10 ). patience--Translate, endurance of hope; the persevering endurance of trials which flows from hope. Romans 15:4 shows that patience also nourishes hope. hope in our Lord Jesus--literally, hope of our Lord Jesus, namely, of His coming ( 1 Thessalonians 1:10 ): a hope that looked forward beyond all present things for the manifestation of Christ. in the sight of God and our Father--Your faith, hope, and love were not merely such as would pass for genuine before men, but in the sight of God, the Searcher of hearts [GOMARUS]. Things are really what they are before God. BENGEL takes this clause with remembering. Whenever we pray, we remember before God your faith, hope, and love. But its separation from remembering in the order, and its connection with your . . . faith, &c. make me to prefer the former view. and, &c.--The Greek implies, in the sight of Him who is [at once] God and our Father. 4. Knowing--Forasmuch as we know. your election of God--The Greek is rather, beloved by God; so Romans 1:7 , 2 Thessalonians 2:13 . Your election means that God has elected you as individual believers to eternal life ( Romans 11:5 Romans 11:7 , Colossians 3:12 , 2 Thessalonians 2:13 ). 5. our gospel--namely, the Gospel which we preached. came--Greek, was made, namely, by God, its Author and Sender. Gods having made our preaching among you to be attended with such power, is the proof that you are elect of God ( 1 Thessalonians 1:4 ). in power--in the efficacy of the Holy Spirit clothing us with power (see end of verse; Acts 1:8 , 4:33 , Acts 6:5 Acts 6:8 ) in preaching the Gospel, and making it in you the power of God unto salvation ( Romans 1:16 ). As power produces faith; so the Holy Ghost, love; and much assurance ( Colossians 2:2 , full persuasion), hope ( Hebrews 6:11 ), resting on faith ( Hebrews 10:22 ). So faith, love, and hope ( 1 Thessalonians 1:3 ). as ye know--answering to the knowing, that is, as WE know ( 1 Thessalonians 1:4 ) your character as the elect of God, so YE know ours as preachers. for your sake--The purpose herein indicated is not so much that of the apostles, as that of God. You know what God enabled us to be . . . how mighty in preaching the word . . . for your sakes . . . thereby proving that He had chosen ( 1 Thessalonians 1:4 ) you for His own [ALFORD]. I think, from 1 Thessalonians 2:10-12 , that, in what manner of men we were among you, besides the power in preaching, there is included also Pauls and his fellow missionaries whole conduct which confirmed their preaching; and in this sense, the for your sake will mean in order to win you. This, though not the sole, yet would be a strong, motive to holy circumspection, namely, so as to win those without ( Colossians 4:5 ; compare 1 Corinthians 9:19-23 ). 6. And ye--answering to For our Gospel, 1 Thessalonians 1:5 . followers--Greek, imitators. The Thessalonians in their turn became ensamples ( 1 Thessalonians 1:7 ) for others to imitate. of the Lord--who was the apostle of the Father, and taught the word, which He brought from heaven, under adversities [BENGEL]. This was the point in which they imitated Him and His apostles, joyful witness for the word in much affliction: the second proof of their election of God ( 1 Thessalonians 1:4 ); 1 Thessalonians 1:5 is the first received the word in much affliction--( 1 Thessalonians 2:14 , 3:2-5 , Acts 17:5-10 ). joy of--that is, wrought by the Holy Ghost. The oil of gladness wherewith the Son of God was anointed above His fellows ( Psalms 45:7 ), is the same oil with which He, by the Spirit, anoints His fellows too ( Isaiah 61:1 Isaiah 61:3 , Romans 14:17 , 1 John 2:20 1 John 2:27 ). 7. ensamples--So some of the oldest manuscripts read. Others, ensample (singular), the whole Church being regarded as one. The Macedonian Church of Philippi was the only one in Europe converted before the Thessalonians. Therefore he means their past conduct is an ensample to all believers now; of whom he specifies those in Macedonia because he had been there since the conversion of the Thessalonians, and had left Silvanus and Timotheus there; and those in Achaia, because he was now at Corinth in Achaia. 8. from you sounded . . . the word of the Lord--not that they actually became missionaries: but they, by the report which spread abroad of their faith (compare Romans 1:8 ), and by Christian merchants of Thessalonica who travelled in various directions, bearing the word of the Lord with them, were virtually missionaries, recommending the Gospel to all within reach of their influence by word and by example ( 1 Thessalonians 1:7 ). In sounded, the image is that of a trumpet filling with its clear-sounding echo all the surrounding places. to God-ward--no longer directed to idols. so that we need not to speak any thing--to them in praise of your faith; for ( 1 Thessalonians 1:9 ) they themselves (the people in Macedonia, Achaia, and in every place) know it already. 9. Strictly there should follow, For they themselves show of you, &c.; but, instead, he substitutes that which was the instrumental cause of the Thessalonians conversion and faith, for they themselves show of us what manner of entering in we had unto you; compare 1 Thessalonians 1:5 , which corresponds to this former clause, as 1 Thessalonians 1:6 corresponds to the latter clause. And how ye turned from idols to serve the living . . . God, &c. Instead of our having to speak any thing to them (in Macedonia and Achaia) in your praise ( 1 Thessalonians 1:8 ), they themselves (have the start of us in speaking of you, and) announce concerning (so the Greek of show of means) us, what manner of (how effectual an) entrance we had unto you ( 1 Thessalonians 1:5 , 2:1 ). the living and true God--as opposed to the dead and false gods from which they had turned. In the English Version reading, Acts 17:4 , of the devout Greeks a great multitude, no mention is made, as here, of the conversion of idolatrous Gentiles at Thessalonica; but the reading of some of the oldest manuscripts and Vulgate singularly coincides with the statement here: Of the devout AND of Greeks (namely, idolaters) a great multitude; so in Acts 17:17 , the devout persons, that is, Gentile proselytes to Judaism, form a separate class. PALEY and LACHMANN, by distinct lines of argument, support the AND. 10. This verse distinguishes them from the Jews, as 1 Thessalonians 1:9 from the idolatrous Gentiles. To wait for the Lords coming is a sure characteristic of a true believer, and was prominent amidst the graces of the Thessalonians ( 1 Corinthians 1:7 1 Corinthians 1:8 ). His coming is seldom called his return ( John 14:3 ); because the two advents are regarded as different phases of the same coming; and the second coming shall have features altogether new connected with it, so that it will not be a mere repetition of the first, or a mere coming back again. his Son . . . raised from the dead--the grand proof of His divine Sonship ( Romans 1:4 ). delivered--rather as Greek, who delivereth us. Christ has once for all redeemed us; He is our Deliverer ALWAYS. wrath to come--( 1 Thessalonians 5:9 , Colossians 3:6 ). 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