1 Thessalonians 2:4
Context2:4 but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we declare it, not to please people but God, who examines our hearts.
1 Thessalonians 2:8
Context2:8 with such affection for you 1 we were happy 2 to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own lives, because you had become dear to us.
1 Thessalonians 2:16
Context2:16 because they hinder us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. Thus they constantly fill up their measure of sins, 3 but wrath 4 has come upon them completely. 5
1 Thessalonians 3:13
Context3:13 so that your hearts are strengthened in holiness to be blameless before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints. 6


[2:8] 1 tn Grk “longing for you in this way.”
[2:8] 2 tn Or “we are happy.” This verb may be past or present tense, but the context favors the past.
[2:16] 1 tn Grk “to fill up their sins always.”
[2:16] 2 tc The Western text (D F G latt) adds τοῦ θεοῦ (tou qeou) to ὀργή (orgh) to read “the wrath of God,” in emulation of the normal Pauline idiom (cf., e.g., Rom 1:18; Eph 5:6; Col 3:6) and, most likely, to clarify which wrath is in view (since ὀργή is articular).
[3:13] 1 tc ‡ Important and early witnesses (א* A D* 81 629 lat) have ἀμήν (amhn, “amen”) at the end of this benediction, while the majority of