...report how you welcomed us4 and how you 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, Jesus our deliverer from the coming wrath. Paul 's Ministry in Thessalonica 2 For you yourselves know,...

...sparing believers from his judgment is a recurrent theme in the Bible. • I Thessalonians 1:10: "and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead - Jesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath" • I Thessalonians 5:9: "For God did not appoint us...

...will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. Matthew 11:28-30 [A]nd to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come. 1 Thessalonians 1:10 Israel will remain here on earth...

...believers throughout Macedonia and Achaia "report what kind of reception you gave us. They tell how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true...his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead" (1:9-10a). The spiritual eyes to recognize the word of God and the spiritual life to respond in repentance...

...Others report, he states in his congratulatory preface, "how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come" (1:9-10). In his First Letter to the Corinthians, whom...

...report about us what kind of welcome we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead — Jesus, who rescues us from the wrath that is coming. (1 Thess. 1:9-10) Even later on, in the letter...

...converts for their exemplary faith and describes them as having converted "to God from idols, to serve a living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead — Jesus, who rescues us from the wrath that is coming" (1:9-10). The most obvious sociological implication...

...report about us what kind of welcome we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead — Jesus, who rescues us from the wrath that is coming. Resp. God is our refuge and our strength,...

...conscience. I 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"...

...He states three magnificent truths. He mentions the Rapture: "Ye turned to God from idols," he says, "to serve the living and true God; and to wait for his Son from heaven" (1:9b-10a). The word for "wait" is anameno. It occurs only here in the New Testament. A word...