1 Thessalonians

Chapters

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• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

The verses these writers stop at

• 5:21 Test everything; keep hold of what is good; 70
• 5:17 Never stop praying. 25
• 5:23 May the God of peace himself make you holy in every part, and may your spirit, soul and body be kept whole and blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 21
• 4:13 We do not want you to be left in the dark, brothers and sisters, about those who have fallen asleep, so that you do not grieve as others do who have no hope. 20
• 4:3 This is God's will for you: that you be holy. Keep away from sexual immorality. 17
• 4:16 The Lord himself will come down from heaven at a shout of command, at an archangel's call and the sound of God's trumpet, and the dead who belong to Christ will rise first. 17
• 4:17 Then those of us still living, who are left, will be swept up with them into the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. From then on we will be with the Lord always. 17
• 5:18 Whatever happens, give thanks; this is what God wants for you in Christ Jesus. 15

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Where it is preached

1. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

   Man's Chief End cites I Thess 1:1

   …this creates inward peace; it makes music within, whatever storms are without. 2 Cor 1:1. I Thess 1:1. If we consider what Christ has wrought for us by his blood, and wrought in us by his…

2. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

   Book 1, Chapter 9 — All the Principles of Piety Subverted by Fanatics, Who Substitute Revelations for Scripture cites 1 Thess. 5:19

   …empty speculation apart from the word; he immediately adds, “Despise not prophesying,” (1 Thess. 5:19, 20). By this, doubtless, he intimates that the light of the Spirit is quenched the…

3. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

   1.2 Love cites 1 Thess 1: 3

   …working, feet running in the ways of his commandments. It is called the labour of love. 1 Thess 1: 3. Mary Magdalene loved Christ, and poured her ointments on him. We think we never do…

4. Practical Religion · J. C. Ryle

   Prayer cites 1 Thess. v. 7

   …nothing that Paul said, "Continue in prayer," and "Pray without ceasing." (Colos. iv. 2; 1 Thess. v. 7.) He did not mean that men should be always on their knees, as an old sect, called the…

5. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

   Scriptural Christianity cites 1 Thess. 1:3

   …Christ also walked,” in “the work of faith, in the patience of hope, the labour of love” (1 Thess. 1:3). 5. Without busying ourselves, then, in curious, needless inquiries, touching those…

6. The Key Teachings of A. B. Simpson · Ochorus Originals

   Introduction cites 1 Thessalonians 5:21

   …of this book is the counsel of Scripture: Prove all things; hold fast that which is good (1 Thessalonians 5:21). Weigh every chapter against the Word of God. Where Simpson is faithful — and on the…