 | John Phillips - 2005 - 244 pàgines
...scope of the witness: "Your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing. For they themselves show of us what manner of entering in we had unto you . . ." (1:8b- 9a). Paul had worked himself out of a job! Instead of him going to others with the gospel,... | |
 | Robert J. Karris - 2005 - 116 pàgines
...find a wonderful parallel in 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10, where Paul reminds his Gentile converts that they "turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God and to await his Son from heaven, whom he raised from [the] dead, Jesus, who delivers us from the coming wrath"... | |
 | Charlie P. Johnston - 2005 - 306 pàgines
...idolatries. A testimony of praise about the Thessalonian Christian Church from that region is as follows: How ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; 1 Thessalonians 1:9b These Thessalonians, and many others among the Greeks, turned away from... | |
 | Marino Kintaro - 2005 - 348 pàgines
...in human hearts. The King James Version of 1 Thessalonians ( 1 :9) says, "For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you,...from idols to serve the Living and True God." And what union can there be between God's temple and idols? For you are God's temple the home of the Living... | |
 | Richard G. Williamson - 2006 - 277 pàgines
...with a recovery strategy from our sin and subsequently from His coming wrath; For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you,...ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; [10] And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which... | |
 | Alvin Low - 2006 - 111 pàgines
...end. That is good news! 3. Chronological relationships: 1 Thessalonians 1:9 says, "They tell how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven..." The chronological relationship is "turning to God" before "serving the living and true God."... | |
 | Bart D Ehrman - 2006 - 304 pàgines
...pagan audience in Thessalonica, when he reminds them of the welcome that we had from you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God and to await his son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus — who saves us from the wrath that... | |
 | Tom Goodman - 2007 - 279 pàgines
...the New Testament. The Apostle Paul even summarized the expectations of the Christian life as simply "to serve the living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven" (1 Thessalonians 1:9-10). As believers around the world have recited the Creed down through... | |
 | Bruce J. Malina, John J. Pilch - 2006 - 428 pàgines
...Jesusgroup members. l:9b-10: Paul describes his Thessalonian clients as people who turned "from idols to serve the living and true God and to wait for his Son from the sky." The word translated "idols" (Greek: eidolon) means images. In contrast with "the living and... | |
 | Stephen E. Smallman - 2006 - 178 pàgines
...turned to God from idols" (faith and repentance)— and the new walk that follows conversion—"to serve the living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven." Implications I'm not sure any of us could have the same level of spiritual discernment that... | |
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For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you. and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God ; 10 And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from... 
