2 Thessalonians 1:11

Geneva Study Bible - 2 Thessalonians 1:11

1:11 {8} Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of {b} [this] calling, and fulfil {c} all the good pleasure of [his] goodness, and the {d} work of faith with power:(8) Seeing that we have the mark set before us, it remains that we go to it. And we go to it, by certain degrees of causes: first by the free love and good pleasure of God, by virtue of which all other inferior causes work: from there proceeds the free calling to Christ, and from calling, faith,... read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Thessalonians 1:1-12

(V. 1) Again, the same brotherly character of address is used as in the first epistle. The threatened dangers to the Thessalonians did not change this, except in the use of the more gentle expression "our Father" rather than "the Father," as though to express the fullest identification of these servants of God with the saints. And young though this assembly was, still it enjoyed the same blessed place as do all saints, "in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ." Does it not remind us of... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - 2 Thessalonians 1:1-12

THE THANKSGIVING This epistle was written by Paul soon after the previous one, and for a reason not very different. Acts 17:0 shows that Paul emphasized the second coming of Christ at Thessalonica, which is corroborated by 1 Thessalonians 1:10 . It grew out of this that the anxiety was felt touching the relation of the dead to the living saints at His coming, which was dealt with in 1 Thessalonians 4:13 to 1 Thessalonians 5:12 . But another error arose from the same source which was... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12

(11) ¶ Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power: (12) That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. I pray the Reader to observe how sweetly Paul closeth the Chapter, as he had began, with prayer. What can be more proper for ministers, than to open and close all their... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - 2 Thessalonians 1:11

Wherefore, also we pray, &c. By the Greek, the sense and construction cannot be in, or on which day; and therefore it must be referred to what was said before, that God should be glorified in his saints, and so may be translated, on which [4] account we pray, &c. that Christ may be glorified in you, being made saints by his grace, &c. (Witham) =============================== [BIBLIOGRAPHY] In quo, Greek: eis o, in quod, but it cannot agree with Greek: emera, day. ... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12

11,12 Believing thoughts and expectations of the second coming of Christ should lead us to pray to God more, for ourselves and others. If there is any good in us, it is owing to the good pleasure of his goodness, and therefore it is called grace. There are many purposes of grace and good-will in God toward his people, and the apostle prays that God would complete in them the work of faith with power. This is to their doing every other good work. The power of God not only begins, but carries on... read more

Frank Binford Hole

F. B. Hole's Old and New Testament Commentary - 2 Thessalonians 1:1-99

2Thess 1 THE SECOND LETTER to the Thessalonians was evidently written not long after the first, while still they were young in the faith and the more likely to be misled by false teachers, especially in matters pertaining to the coming of the Lord. The opening words are almost exactly the same as in the first letter; Paul again associating with himself the same two fellow-labourers. The condition of this assembly still gave great joy and thankfulness to the Apostle. Their spiritual health was... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12

Paul's prayer of intercession: v. 11. Wherefore also we pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and the work of faith with power; v. 12. that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. The apostle never loses sight of the fact that his readers are still in the world, in the midst of the enmity and persecution of the... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - 2 Thessalonians 1:1-12

IAddress for the Consolation of the readers under the fresh outbreak of persecutions2 Thessalonians 1:1-12After the salutation (2 Thessalonians 1:1-2), the Apostle thanks God for their growth in faith (2 Thessalonians 1:3-4), cheers them by the prospect of judgment and salvation (2 Thessalonians 1:5-10), and prays that God would make them partakers of perfection (2 Thessalonians 1:11-12).1Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus [Timothy], unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father1 and... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12

2 Thessalonians WORTHY OF YOUR CALLING 2Th_1:11-12 . In the former letter to the Church of Thessalonica, the Apostle had dwelt, in ever-memorable words--which sound like a prelude of the trump of God--on the coming of Christ at the end to judge the world, and to gather His servants into His rest. That great thought seems to have excited some of the hotter heads in Thessalonica, and to have led to a general feverishness of unwholesome expectancy of the near approach or actual dawn of the... read more

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