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2 Thessalonians 1 Bible study: Your faith grows exceedingly
2 Thessalonians 1 says "your faith grows exceedingly" (1:3): behind grows exceedingly is a verb the New Testament has only here, which Strong's gives as "to increase above ordinary degree". And counted worthy (1:5) and count you worthy (1:11) are two different Greek verbs.
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“that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.”
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“2 Thessalonians 1:5 says "counted worthy of God’s Kingdom", and 1:11 says "count you worthy of your calling".”
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Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy
The letter opens, "Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:" (1:1) "Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ." (1:2). It names three senders, and goes on as we: "We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers" (1:3). So these notes say the letter for its words, and don't say who the we are. The letter names Silvanus and Timothy only in 1:1, and these notes say no more of them than 1:1 does. The readers are the ones 1:1 names, "the assembly of the Thessalonians" (1:1): the letter names its readers, not their city. These notes say nothing of when or where the letter was written, or of its readers and their city, beyond what the letter says.
Where the Old Testament leads here
From the glory of his might
Isaiah 2:19leads to2 Thessalonians 1:7-9
Three times the chapter speaks of going into the rocks "from before the terror of the LORD, and from the glory of his majesty" (Isaiah 2:10, 2:19, 2:21), and twice it adds, "when he arises to shake the earth mightily" (Isaiah 2:19). Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy (2 Thessalonians 1:1) write of the time "when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire" (2 Thessalonians 1:7), and speak of "eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might" (2 Thessalonians 1:9). The letter doesn't name Isaiah, so setting the two side by side is a reading, and nothing is claimed about the Greek. It rests on a shared subject: the glory of the Lord on his day, and the judgment that day brings. One reading hears in the letter's words the day of Isaiah 2:10-21, spoken of there as the day the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven. Another reads Isaiah 2:10-21 of the LORD's day against "all that is proud and arrogant" (Isaiah 2:12), with nothing said of Jesus, and reads the letter's words on their own. This line names no one, then or now, among the proud of Isaiah 2 or those the letter speaks of.
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The Greek word behind it
ὑπεραυξάνωhyperauxanosay hoop-er-owx-AN-o
Strong's gives its sense as "to increase above ordinary degree", and its English as "grow exceedingly". "because your faith grows exceedingly" (1:3): behind grows exceedingly is this one verb, and the New Testament has it only here (in all eight editions TAGNT compares). The next verse names the readers' faith again: "for your perseverance and faith" (1:4).
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2 Thessalonians 1 Bible study questions
- 1"your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds" (1:3). Where have you seen faith or love grow in someone you know?
- 2"To this end we also pray always for you" (1:11). Whom could you pray for this week, and what would you ask God for them?
- 3"that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you" (1:12). What might that look like in an ordinary day this week?
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