1 Thessalonians 1 — Greek text and reception
Each card preserves the Greek reading and its textual and reception notes. This source provides a Greek study edition; Hebrew counterparts and Hebrew–Greek classifications are not supplied.
1 Thessalonians 1
Greeting
Verse 1:1
Greek–English Translation
Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the Church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: grace to you and peace.
Textual and Reception Notes
Text [G]: The greeting ends with peace; no expanded from God our Father formula is imported. Silvanus is the written name here, not silently replaced by Silas. Reception: R01.
Faith, love, and hope
Verse 1:2
Greek–English Translation
We always give thanks to God for all of you, making mention of you in our prayers, unceasingly
Textual and Reception Notes
Text [G]: The source places unceasingly at the end of this verse; the thought continues into 1:3, where it may qualify remembering. Verse rows do not impose new sentence boundaries. Reception: R01.
Verse 1:3
Greek–English Translation
remembering your work of faith and labor of love and endurance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ before our God and Father,
Textual and Reception Notes
Text [G]: Work, labor, and endurance remain distinct. Faith, love, and hope are their respective genitives; the grammatical relations are not expanded into a doctrinal definition. Reception: R01.
Verse 1:4
Greek–English Translation
knowing, brothers beloved by God, your election,
Textual and Reception Notes
Text [G]: Brothers renders adelphoi, the letter’s familial community address; it need not exclude women from the addressed Church. Election renders eklogē without a supplied account of its mechanism. Reception: R02.
Verse 1:5
Greek–English Translation
because our gospel did not come to you in word alone, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and in great assurance, just as you know what kind of people we became among you for your sake.
Textual and Reception Notes
Text [G]: The three accompanying phrases name power, the Holy Spirit, and great assurance. Assurance (plērophoria) is not reduced to eloquence; the final clause points to the messengers’ observable conduct for the recipients’ sake. Reception: R02.
Verse 1:6
Greek–English Translation
And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, receiving the word in great affliction with joy from the Holy Spirit,
Textual and Reception Notes
Text [G]: The recipients imitate both the messengers and the Lord. Great affliction and joy from the Holy Spirit occur together; the translation does not make joy mean the absence of suffering. Reception: R03.
Verse 1:7
Greek–English Translation
so that you became an example to all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.
Textual and Reception Notes
Text [G]: Typon is singular: the whole community becomes an example. Both Macedonia and Achaia are named, and those influenced are already described as believers. Reception: R03.
Verse 1:8
Greek–English Translation
For from you the word of the Lord has sounded out, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith toward God has gone out in every place, so that we have no need to say anything.
Textual and Reception Notes
Text [G]: The sounding-out verb (exēchētai) gives the proclamation an audible image; the second verb describes the faith’s report as having gone out. The broad phrase every place remains the letter’s own expression. Reception: R04.
Verse 1:9
Greek–English Translation
For they themselves report about us what kind of entrance we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God
Textual and Reception Notes
Text [G]: Serve renders douleuein, service expressed with slave-related vocabulary. The object is God, not a statement of civil slave status. Reception: R04.
Verse 1:10
Greek–English Translation
and to await His Son from the heavens, whom He raised from the dead—Jesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath.
Textual and Reception Notes
Text [G]: Awaiting the Son continues the infinitive of serving in 1:9. God raises Him; Jesus is then named as the one rescuing from coming wrath. Heavens is plural in this verse. Reception: R04.