1 Thessalonians 5:24

5:24 He who calls you is trustworthy, and he will in fact do this. ¹ 

1 Thessalonians 3:11

3:11 Now may God our Father himself and our Lord Jesus direct our way to you.

1 Thessalonians 4:7

4:7 For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness.

1 Thessalonians 3:5

3:5 So ²  when I could bear it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter somehow tempted you and our toil had proven useless.

1 Thessalonians 2:10

2:10 You are witnesses, and so is God, as to how holy and righteous and blameless our conduct was toward you who believe.

1 Thessalonians 2:18

2:18 For we wanted to come to you (I, Paul, in fact tried again and again) ³  but Satan thwarted us.

1 Thessalonians 4:3

4:3 For this is God’s will: that you become holy, ⁴  that you keep away from sexual immorality,

1 Thessalonians 5:9

5:9 For God did not destine us for wrath ⁵  but for gaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 3:12

3:12 And may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we do for you,

1 Thessalonians 4:8

4:8 Consequently the one who rejects this is not rejecting human authority ⁶  but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.

1 Thessalonians 4:14

4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also we believe that ⁷  God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep as Christians. ⁸ 

1 Thessalonians 4:16

4:16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a shout of command, with the voice of the archangel, ⁹  and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

1 Thessalonians 1:8

1:8 For from you the message of the Lord ¹⁰  has echoed forth not just in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place reports of your faith in God have spread, ¹¹  so that we do not need to say anything.

1 Thessalonians 5:23

Conclusion

5:23 Now may the God of peace himself make you completely holy and may your spirit and soul and body be kept entirely blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

[5:24]  ¹ tn Grk “who will also do,” with the object understood from v. 23.

[3:5]  ² tn Or “for this reason.”

[2:18]  ³ tn Or “several times”; Grk, “both once and twice.” The literal expression “once and twice” is frequently used as a Greek idiom referring to an indefinite low number, but more than once (“several times”); see L&N 60.70.

[4:3]  ⁴ tn Or “your sanctification.”

[5:9]  ⁵ sn God did not destine us for wrath. In context this refers to the outpouring of God’s wrath on the earth in the day of the Lord (1 Thess 5:2-4).

[4:8]  ⁶ tn Grk “rejecting man.”

[4:14]  ⁷ tn “we believe that” is understood from the first clause of the verse, which is parallel. Grk “so also God will bring.”

[4:14]  ⁸ tn Grk “those who have fallen asleep through Jesus.” It is possible that “through Jesus” describes “bring,” but this gives the unlikely double reference, “through Jesus God will bring them with Jesus.” Instead it describes their “falling sleep,” since through him their death is only sleep and not the threat it once was. Also Christians are those whose total existence – life and death – is in and through and for Christ (1 Cor 8:6).

[4:16]  ⁸ tn Neither noun in this phrase (ἐν φωνῇ ἀρχαγγέλου, ejn fwnh ajrcangelou, “with the voice of the archangel”) has the article in keeping with Apollonius’ Canon. Since ἀρχάγγελος (ajrcangelo") is most likely monadic, both nouns are translated as definite in keeping with Apollonius’ Corollary (see ExSyn 250-51).

[1:8]  ⁹ tn Or “the word of the Lord.”

[1:8]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “your faith in God has gone out.”