1 Παύλος και Σιλουανός και Τιμόθεος προς την εκκλησίαν των Θεσσαλονικέων εν Θεώ, τω Πατρί και Κυρίω Ιησού Χριστώ· χάρις είη υμίν και ειρήνη από Θεού Πατρός ημών και Κυρίου Ιησού Χριστού. 2 Ευχαριστούμεν πάντοτε τον Θεόν περί πάντων υμών και σας μνημονεύομεν εν ταις προσευχαίς ημών, 3 αδιαλείπτως ενθυμούμενοι το εις την πίστιν έργον σας και τον κόπον της αγάπης και την υπομονήν της ελπίδος του Κυρίου ημών Ιησού Χριστού έμπροσθεν του Θεού και Πατρός ημών, 4 εξεύροντες, αδελφοί ηγαπημένοι υπό Θεού, την εκλογήν σας, 5 διότι το ευαγγέλιον ημών δεν έγεινεν εις εσάς εν λόγω μόνον, αλλά και εν δυνάμει και εν Πνεύματι Αγίω και εν πληροφορία πολλή, καθώς εξεύρετε οποίοι υπήρξαμεν μεταξύ σας διά σας. 6 Και σεις εγείνετε μιμηταί ημών και του Κυρίου, δεχθέντες τον λόγον εν μέσω πολλής θλίψεως μετά χαράς Πνεύματος Αγίου, 7 ώστε εγείνετε τύποι εις πάντας τους πιστεύοντας εν τη Μακεδονία και τη Αχαΐα. 8 Διότι από σας εξήχησεν ο λόγος του Κυρίου ουχί μόνον εν τη Μακεδονία και Αχαΐα, αλλά και εν παντί τόπω έφθασεν η φήμη της προς τον Θεόν πίστεώς σας, ώστε ημείς δεν έχομεν χρείαν να λαλώμέν τι. 9 Διότι αυτοί διηγούνται περί ημών οποίαν είσοδον ελάβομεν προς εσάς, και πως επεστρέψατε προς τον Θεόν από των ειδώλων, διά να δουλεύητε Θεόν ζώντα και αληθινόν, 10 και να προσμένητε τον Υιόν αυτού εκ των ουρανών, τον οποίον ανέστησεν εκ νεκρών, τον Ιησούν, όστις ελευθερόνει ημάς από της μελλούσης οργής.
1 Thessalonians · Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
1 Thessalonians 1 Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
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Notes on this text (2)
- The Old Testament is translated from the Hebrew, not from the Septuagint read in the Orthodox Church; there are no deuterocanonical books.
- Katharevousa (learned 19th-century Greek), as in the CrossWire module (text from theword.gr).
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Thessalonica
Capital of the Roman province of Macedonia and a key stop on the Via Egnatia. Paul's brief ministry produced a strong church and two of his earliest letters.
Cited in the guide: Acts 17:1; 1 Thessalonians 1:1; Acts 17:6
Cross references (10)
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- 1 Romans 1:7; 2 Thessalonians 1:1; Acts 18:5; Acts 20:4; 2 Corinthians 1:19
- 2 Romans 1:8–9; Ephesians 1:15–16; Philemon 4; Colossians 1:3; Philippians 1:3–4
- 3 1 Corinthians 13:13; Revelation 2:19; Galatians 5:6; 2 Thessalonians 1:11; Romans 8:24–25
- 4 2 Thessalonians 2:13; Titus 3:4–5; 2 Peter 1:10; Romans 9:25; Colossians 3:12
- 5 2 Thessalonians 3:7–9; Mark 16:20; 1 Corinthians 2:2–5; 1 Thessalonians 2:13; 2 Thessalonians 2:14
- 6 1 Corinthians 11:1; 1 Corinthians 4:16; Acts 13:52; 2 Thessalonians 3:9; Galatians 5:22
- 7 Titus 2:7; 1 Timothy 4:12; 1 Peter 5:3; 1 Thessalonians 1:8; 2 Corinthians 11:9–10
- 8 Romans 1:8; Romans 10:14–18; Isaiah 52:7; Revelation 14:6; 3 John 12
- 9 1 Timothy 4:10; 1 Corinthians 12:2; Galatians 4:8–9; Zephaniah 2:11; Zechariah 8:20–23
- 10 1 Thessalonians 5:9; Isaiah 25:8–9; Romans 5:9–10; Matthew 3:7; Acts 2:24
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
Wherefore then, when writing to the Ephesians, and having Timothy with him, did he not include him with himself (in his salutation), known as he was to them and admired, for he says, "Ye know the proof of him, that as a child serveth the father, so he served with me in the Gospel" (Philip. ii.
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