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1 Thessalonians 5 Bible study: Always rejoice
1 Thessalonians ends with grace: "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you." (5:28). And near its end it asks its readers to do what it says we did. In 2:11, "we exhorted, comforted"; now they are to "exhort one another" (5:11) and "encourage the faint-hearted" (5:14), with the same two Greek verbs.
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“Always rejoice. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.”
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“1 Thessalonians 5:15 says to follow after that which is good "for one another and for all".”
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Concerning the times and the seasons
The chapter opens: "But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you. For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night. For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape. But you, brothers, aren’t in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief. You are all children of light and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night, nor to darkness, so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober. For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night. But since we belong to the day, let’s be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation. For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do." (5:1-11) (tap exhort). These notes don't explain the day of the Lord, a thief in the night or birth pains beyond the verses' own words. They don't say who "they" (5:3) or "the rest" (5:6) are, or what "whether we wake or sleep" (5:10) means, and they apply none of these verses to any date, year, event, nation, person or saying today.
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The Greek word behind it
παραμυθέομαιparamytheomaisay par-am-oo-THEH-om-ahee
Strong's: "to relate near, i.e. (by implication) encourage, console". "encourage the faint-hearted" (5:14): behind encourage is this verb. Here is what almost everyone misses: it is the verb behind comforted in "As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you" (2:11), where the letter tells what we did. Now the readers are to do it (tap exhort). Favor's 1 Thessalonians 2 studies it there and counts it in the New Testament, and Favor's 1 Corinthians 14 studies the noun Strong's gives as formed from it.
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1 Thessalonians 5 Bible study questions
- 1"Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do." (5:11). What is one way the people you study with could build each other up this week?
- 2"Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all." (5:14). Which of these comes hardest to you, and why?
- 3"Always rejoice. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks" (5:16-18). Which of these three comes most easily to you, and which least?
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