1 Thessalonians 1:8

1:8 For from you the message of the Lord¹ has echoed forth not just in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place reports of your faith in God have spread,² so that we do not need to say anything.

1 Thessalonians 4:6

4:6 In this matter no one should violate the rights of his brother or take advantage of him,³ because the Lord is the avenger in all these cases,⁴ as we also told you earlier and warned you solemnly.

1 Thessalonians 4:16

4:16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a shout of command, with the voice of the archangel,⁵ and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

1 Thessalonians 5:23

Conclusion

5:23 Now may the God of peace himself make you completely holy and may your spirit and soul and body be kept entirely blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹tn Or “the word of the Lord.”

sn “The word of the Lord” is a technical expression in OT literature, often referring to a divine prophetic utterance (e.g., Gen 15:1, Isa 1:10, Jonah 1:1). In the NT it occurs 15 times: 3 times as ῥῆμα τοῦ κυρίου (rJhma tou kuriou; Luke 22:61, Acts 11:16, 1 Pet 1:25) and 12 times as λόγος τοῦ κυρίου (logo" tou kuriou; here and in Acts 8:25; 13:44, 48, 49; 15:35, 36; 16:32; 19:10, 20; 1 Thess 4:15; 2 Thess 3:1). As in the OT, this phrase focuses on the prophetic nature and divine origin of what has been said. Here the phrase has been translated “the message of the Lord” because of the focus upon the spread of the gospel evident in the passage.

²tn Grk “your faith in God has gone out.”

³tn Grk “not to transgress against or defraud his brother in the matter,” continuing the sentence of vv. 3-5.

⁴tn Grk “concerning all these things.”

⁵tn Neither noun in this phrase (ἐν φωνῇ ἀρχαγγέλου, ejn fwnh ajrcangelou, “with the voice of the archangel”) has the article in keeping with Apollonius’ Canon. Since ἀρχάγγελος (ajrcangelo") is most likely monadic, both nouns are translated as definite in keeping with Apollonius’ Corollary (see ExSyn 250-51).