| James Stuart M. Anderson - 1829 - 776 pàgines
...our people now, than it had upon the Thessalonians to whom St. Paul was able to appeal, as having " turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven :" concerning whom he could " thank God without ceasing, because when they received the word... | |
| William Paley - 1830 - 358 pàgines
...away. Another seeming discrepancy is found in the ninth verse of the first chapter of the epistle : ' For they themselves show of us what manner of entering...ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God.' This text contains an assertion, that, by means of St Paul's ministry at Thessalonica, many... | |
| Isaac Barrow - 1830 - 624 pàgines
...whom thou hast sent. Blessed he God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. TJie Word was with God. To serve the living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven. And in that form of blessing, The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and... | |
| Thomas Sherlock, Thomas Smart Hughes - 1830 - 508 pàgines
...delivered by me, and received by you : the thing is well known, and notorious to all the world : ' They themselves show of us what manner of entering in we had unto you.' Tt is evident from hence what notion the world entertained of the Christian religion, and the principal... | |
| James A. Begg - 1830 - 264 pàgines
...apostle referred when he blessed the Lord that the believing Thessalonians had "turned to God from idoU to serve the living and true God, and to WAIT for his Son FROM HEAVEM" ? 1 Thess. i. 9, 10. And to refer to the passage cited by the Doctor, is it not the day of... | |
| 2000 - 356 pàgines
...so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven." Paul was constantly urging his disciples "to serve the living and true God; And to wait for his Son from heaven . . . even Jesus." James declared: "The coming of the Lord draweth nigh." Peter wrote: "We have... | |
| Hugh F. Pyle - 2000 - 148 pàgines
...in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ" (I Cor. 1:7). "For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; And to wait for his Son from heaven.... | |
| John Phillips - 2001 - 538 pàgines
...women of considerable influence and from the best families. were Gentiles is reflected in his statement "ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; and to wait for His Son from heaven" (1:9-10). d. THE STRIFE AT THESSALONICA (17:5) But the Jews which believed not, moved with... | |
| John Phillips - 2001 - 260 pàgines
...Philemon. Paul began by recalling the conversion of his Thessalonian friends, reminding them how they "turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; and to wait for his Son from heaven" (1:9-10). Next Paul reminded them how careful he was when among them to behave himself in an... | |
| Liturgy Training Publications - 2001 - 944 pàgines
...anything. For they themselves openly declare about us what sort of reception we had among 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 delivers us from the coming wrath.... | |
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