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King James Version

2 Thessalonians 1:1

Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church;   God;   Paul;   Silas;   Thessalonica;   Timothy;   Scofield Reference Index - Thessalonians;   Thompson Chain Reference - Timothy;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Silas;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Paul;   Silas;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Destructionists;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Acts of the Apostles;   Peter, the Epistles of;   Silas;   Thessalonians, the Epistles to the;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Disciples;   Timothy;   2 Thessalonians;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Silas;   Thessalonians, Second Epistle to the;   Timothy;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Attributes of Christ;   Church;   Peter Epistles of;   Pre-Eminence ;   Silas or Silyanus;   Thessalonians Epistles to the;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Silvanus ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Thessalonica;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Si'las;   Thessalo'nians, Second Epistle to the,;   Tim'othy;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Saul of Tarsus;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Chronology of the New Testament;   Paul, the Apostle;   Philippi;   Silas;   Timothy;  

Parallel Translations

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
Legacy Standard Bible
Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
Simplified Cowboy Version
Hey, boys! It's Paul, Silas, and Timothy again.This goes out to all the cowboys and cowgirls in Thessalonica who ride for the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
Bible in Basic English
Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
Darby Translation
Paul and Silvanus and Timotheus to the assembly of Thessalonians in God our Father and [the] Lord Jesus Christ.
Christian Standard Bible®
Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy: To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
World English Bible
Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the assembly of the Thessalonians in God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ:
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Paul and Silvanus and Timotheus to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Weymouth's New Testament
Paul, Silas, and Timothy: To the Church of the Thessalonians which is in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
King James Version (1611)
Paul and Siluanus, and Timotheus vnto the Church of the Thessalonias, in God our Father, and the Lord Iesus Christ:
Literal Translation
Paul and Silvanus and Timothy to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Pavl and Siluanus and Timotheus. To the congregacion of ye Tessalonias in God oure father and in the LORDE Iesus Christ.
Mace New Testament (1729)
Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians, that believe in God our father, and in the Lord Jesus Christ.
THE MESSAGE
I, Paul, together with Silas and Timothy, greet the church of the Thessalonian Christians in the name of God our Father and our Master, Jesus Christ. Our God gives you everything you need, makes you everything you're to be.
Amplified Bible
Paul, Silvanus (Silas), and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
American Standard Version
Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ;
Revised Standard Version
Paul, Silva'nus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalo'nians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Paul Syluanus and Timotheus. Vnto the congregacion of the Tessalonyans which are in God oure father and in the Lorde Iesus Christ.
Update Bible Version
Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ;
Webster's Bible Translation
Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
Young's Literal Translation
Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, to the assembly of Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ:
New Century Version
From Paul, Silas, and Timothy. To the church in Thessalonica in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
New English Translation
From Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Berean Standard Bible
Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
Contemporary English Version
From Paul, Silas, and Timothy. To the church in Thessalonica, the people of God our Father and of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Complete Jewish Bible
From: Sha'ul, Sila and Timothy To: The Messianic Community of the Thessalonians, united with God our Father and the Lord Yeshua the Messiah:
English Standard Version
Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
Geneva Bible (1587)
Paul and Siluanus, and Timotheus, vnto the Church of the Thessalonians, which is in God our Father, and in the Lord Iesus Christ:
George Lamsa Translation
PAUL, and Sil-va''nus, and Ti-mo''theus, unto the Church of the Thes-salo''ni- ans in God our Father and our LORD Jesus Christ:
Hebrew Names Version
Sha'ul, Sila, and Timothy, To the assembly of the Thessalonians in God, our Father, and the Lord Yeshua the Messiah:
International Standard Version
FromFrom">[fn] Paul, Silvanus,[fn] and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in union with God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.2 Corinthians 1:19; 1 Thessalonians 1:1;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
PAULOS, and Sylvanos, and Timotheos, to the church of the Thesalonikoyee, which is in Aloha our Father, and our Lord Jeshu Meshiha.
Murdock Translation
PAUL and Sylvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians, which is in God our Father and our Lord Jesus the Messiah:
New King James Version
Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
New Living Translation
This letter is from Paul, Silas, and Timothy. We are writing to the church in Thessalonica, to you who belong to God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
New Life Bible
This letter is from Paul and Silas and Timothy. It is to the church in the city of Thessalonica that belongs to God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
English Revised Version
Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ;
New Revised Standard
Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Paul and Silvanus and Timothy - unto the assembly of Thessalonians, in God our Father and Lord Jesus Christ, -
Douay-Rheims Bible
Paul and Sylvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians. In God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,
Lexham English Bible
Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Paul and Siluanus and Timotheus, vnto the Church of the Thessalonians in God our father, and the Lord Iesus Christe:
Easy-to-Read Version
Greetings from Paul, Silas, and Timothy. To the church of those in Thessalonica, who are in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
New American Standard Bible
Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
Good News Translation
From Paul, Silas, and Timothy— To the people of the church in Thessalonica, who belong to God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Poul, and Siluan, and Tymothe, to the chirche of Tessalonicensis, in God oure fadir,

Contextual Overview

1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: 2 Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth; 4 So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

2 Corinthians 1:19, 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

Reciprocal: Luke 11:2 - Our Acts 15:22 - Silas Acts 16:1 - named Acts 17:1 - Thessalonica Romans 1:7 - God Romans 16:21 - Timotheus 1 Corinthians 1:2 - the church Galatians 1:22 - in Philippians 1:1 - Timotheus Colossians 1:1 - Timotheus 1 Thessalonians 2:14 - are 2 Thessalonians 2:16 - our Lord Philemon 1:1 - Timothy 1 Peter 5:12 - Silvanus

Cross-References

Genesis 1:4
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
Genesis 1:5
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Genesis 1:11
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Genesis 1:12
And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:16
And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Genesis 1:17
And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
Genesis 1:19
And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Genesis 1:20
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
Genesis 1:22
And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Genesis 1:30
And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus,....

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus; - See the notes on 1 Thessalonians 1:1.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

THE SECOND EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE THESSALONIANS.

Chronological Notes relative to this Epistle.

-Year of the Constantinopolitan era of the world, or that used by the Byzantine historians, 5560.

-Year of the Alexandrian era of the world, 5554.

-Year of the Antiochian era of the world, 5544.

-Year of the Julian period, 4762.

-Year of the world, according to Archbishop Usher, 4056.

-Year of the world, according to Eusebius, in his Chronicon, 4280.

-Year of the minor Jewish era of the world, or that in common use, 3812.

-Year of the Greater Rabbinical era of the world, 4411.

-Year from the Flood, according to Archbishop Usher, and the English Bible, 2400.

-Year of the Cali yuga, or Indian era of the Deluge, 3154.

-Year of the era of Iphitus, or since the first commencement of the Olympic games, 992.

-Year of the era of Nabonassar, king of Babylon, 799.

-Year of the CCVIIth Olympiad, 4.

-Year from the building of Rome, according to Fabius Pictor, 799.

-Year from the building of Rome, according to Frontinus, 803.

-Year from the building of Rome, according to the Fasti Capitolini, 804.

-Year from the building of Rome, according to Varro, which was that most generally used, 805.

-Year of the era of the Seleucidae, 364.

-Year of the Cesarean era of Antioch, 100.

-Year of the Julian era, 97.

-Year of the Spanish era, 90.

-Year from the birth of Jesus Christ according to Archbishop Usher, 56.

-Year of the vulgar era of Christ's nativity, 52.

-Year of Ventidius Cumanus, governor of the Jews, 4.

-Year of Vologesus, king of the Parthians, 3.

-Year of Caius Numidius Quadratus, governor of Syria, 2.

-Year of Ananias, high priest of the Jews, 8.

-Year of the Dionysian period, or Easter Cycle, 53.

-Year of the Grecian Cycle of nineteen years, or Common Golden Number, 15; or the second year after the fifth embolismic.

-Year of the Jewish Cycle of nineteen years, 12, or the first after the fourth embolismic.

-Year of the Solar Cycle, 5.

-Dominical Letters, it being Bissextile, or Leap Year, BA.

-Day of the Jewish Passover, according to the Roman computation of time, the Calends of April, i.e. April 1st, which happened in this year on the Jewish Sabbath.

-Easter Sunday, April 2.

-Epact, or the moon's age on the 22d of March, or the XIth of the Calends of April, 4.

-Epact, according to the present mode of computation, or the moon's age on New Year's day, or the Calends of January, 11.

-Monthly Epacts, of the moon's age on the Calends of each month respectively, (beginning with January,) 11, 13, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 18, 20, 20.

-Number of Direction, or the number of days from the twenty-first of March (or the XIIth of the Calends of April) to the Jewish Passover, 10

-Year of Claudius Caesar, the fifth emperor of the Romans, 12.

-Roman Consuls, Publius Cornelius Sylla Faustus, and Lucius Salvius Otho Titianus; and for the following year, (which is by some supposed to be the date of this epistle,) Decimus Junius Silanus, and Quintus Haterius Antoninus.

CHAPTER I.

The salutation of St. Paul and his companions, 1, 2.

The apostle gives thanks to God for their faith, love, and

union; and for their patience under persecutions, 3, 4.

Speaks of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, the punishment

of the ungodly, and the glorification of the righteous, 5-10.

Prays that God may count them worthy of their calling, that the

name of Jesus may be glorified in them, 11, 12.

NOTES ON CHAP. I.

Verse 2 Thessalonians 1:1. Paul, and Silvanus, c.] See the notes on 1 Thessalonians 1:1. This epistle was written a short time after the former: and as Silas and Timothy were still at Corinth, the apostle joins their names with his own, as in the former case.


 
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