2 Thessalonians

Treated in 94 passages across the library.

Paul's second letter to Thessalonica, written to correct the idea that the day of the Lord had already come. He encourages them under persecution with the justice of God, describes events that must come first, including the man of sin, and rebukes those who had stopped working, saying that "if any would not work, neither should he eat."

Chapters

The verses these writers stop at

2:13 But we must always thank God for you, brothers and sisters whom the Lord loves, because God chose you, as the first of a harvest, to be saved, through the Spirit who makes you holy and through your faith in the truth. 16
1:7 and to give rest to you who suffer, as to us also, when the Lord Jesus appears from heaven with his mighty angels 7
1:9 They will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, cut off from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power, 7
2:4 He will set himself against every so-called god and everything people worship, and lift himself above them all, until he takes his seat in God's temple and presents himself as God. 7
1:6 For it is right for God to repay with suffering those who make you suffer, 5
1:8 in a blaze of fire, bringing punishment on those who do not know God and on those who refuse to obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 5
1:10 on that day when he comes to be glorified among his holy people and marveled at by all who believed. And you are among those believers, for when we bore witness to you, you believed it. 5
2:10 and with every evil trick to deceive those who are on the way to ruin. They are lost because they would not welcome the love of the truth, which would have saved them. 5

Open Word Bible

Where it is preached

Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin
Prefatory Address to King Francis cites 2 Thess. 2:11

…receive the truth in the love of it, “strong delusion, that they should believe a lie”? (2 Thess. 2:11). We, then, have no lack of miracles, sure miracles, that cannot be gainsaid; but those…
Communion with God · John Owen
Of the peculiar and distinct communion which the saints have with the Father cites 2 Thess. ii. 13

…him, being laid down as the cause of sending his Son. So Rom. ix. 11, 12; Eph. i. 4, 5; 2 Thess. ii. 13, 14; 1 John iv. 8, 9. (2.) John xiv. 23, there is mention of that other kind of love…
Old Paths · J. C. Ryle
Our Hope! cites 2 Thess. ii. 16

“Good hope through grace.”—2 Thess. ii. 16. “I hope,” is a very common expression. Everybody can say, “I hope.” About no subject is…
A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson
The Scriptures cites 2 Thess 2:13

…therefore sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth, are put together. 2 Thess 2:13. If the word written be not believed, it is like writing on water, which makes no…
Holiness · J. C. Ryle
Sanctification cites 2 Thess. ii. 13

…of the Thessalonian believers, he says, “I know your election of God.” (1 Peter i. 2; 2 Thess. ii. 13; Rom. viii. 29; Eph. i. 4; 1 Thess. i. 3, 4.) He that boasts of being one of God’s elect…
How to Bring Men to Christ · R. A. Torrey
Dealing with the Indifferent or Careless cites 2 Thes. i. 7

…decisive question, “Are you willing to go away with the wrath of God abiding upon you?” 2 Thes. i. 7‒9, and John viii. 24; Rev. xx. 15; xxi. 8; xiv. 10‒11, set forth in a most impressive way…

The books that return to it most

Institutes of the Christian Religion John Calvin 16 passages
Communion with God John Owen 7 passages
Old Paths J. C. Ryle 6 passages
A Body of Divinity Thomas Watson 5 passages
Holiness J. C. Ryle 5 passages
How to Bring Men to Christ R. A. Torrey 5 passages