Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Proverbs+002     Proverbs 2 (ESV) 1 My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, 2 making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; 3 yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, 4 if you seek it like silver and search for…

  Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Proverbs+001   Proverbs Introduction Israel understood that the Creator had placed an order in his world that could be discovered. The book of Proverbs captures these lessons in compact, memorable sayings passed down from the wisest among their elders. Many of them are from Solomon, a king renowned for his…

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=2Thessalonians+003   2 Thessalonians 3 (ESV) Pray for Us 1 Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed ahead and be honored, as happened among you, 2 and that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men. For not all have faith. 3 But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the…

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=2Thessalonians+002   2 Thessalonians 2 (ESV) The Man of Lawlessness 2 Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers, 2 not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect…

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=2Thessalonians+001   2 THESSALONIANS INTRODUCTION Apparently only shortly after writing his first letter to the Thessalonians, Paul had to write again to correct a false report that he had said the day of the Lord had already come. The day of the Lord was a phrase from the Hebrew prophets to…

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Thessalonians+005   1 Thessalonians 5 (ESV) Final Instructions and Benediction 12 We ask you, brothers, to respect those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you, 13 and to esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves. 14 And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help…

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Thessalonians+004     1 Thessalonians 4 (ESV) A Life Pleasing to God 1 Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, just as you are doing, that you do so more and more. 2 For you know what instructions we gave…

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Thessalonians+003   1 Thessalonians 3 (ESV)   3 Therefore when we could bear it no longer, we were willing to be left behind at Athens alone, 2 and we sent Timothy, our brother and God’s coworker in the gospel of Christ, to establish and exhort you in your faith, 3 that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you…

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Thessalonians+002   1 Thessalonians 2 (ESV) Paul’s Ministry to the Thessalonians 2 For you yourselves know, brothers, that our coming to you was not in vain. 2 But though we had already suffered and been shamefully treated at Philippi, as you know, we had boldness in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in the midst of…

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Thessalonians+001   1 THESSALONIANS INTRODUCTION Around AD 51, Paul, Silas and Timothy brought the message about Jesus the Messiah to the city of Thessalonica. Many people became believers, but there was a riot when Paul and Silas were accused of defying Caesar’s decrees, saying that there is another king, one called…