2 Thessalonians 1:11

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - 2 Thessalonians 1:1-12

Faithful through Faith in a Righteous God 2 Thessalonians 1:1-12 Notice the remarkable couplets of this chapter. Grace and peace, 2 Thessalonians 1:2 ; faith and love, 2 Thessalonians 1:3 ; faith and patience, 2 Thessalonians 1:4 ; tribulation for those who trouble, and rest for those who are troubled, 2 Thessalonians 1:6-7 ; know not, obey not, 2 Thessalonians 1:8 ; the presence of the Lord, the glory of His power, 2 Thessalonians 1:9 ; glorified and admired, 2 Thessalonians 1:10 ; the good... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - 2 Thessalonians 1:1-12

Evidently, this letter was intended primarily to correct certain mistakes which the Thessalonians were making concerning the Second Advent. They were failing to distinguish between the two phases, the Day of the Lord and the coming of the Lord. In his introduction the apostle again referred to their faith and their love, but not to their hope. The peculiar peril now threatening them was to be found in this matter. The apostle proceeded to deal with "the revelation of the Lord Jesus." He is to... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12

A PRAYER‘To which end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfil every desire of goodness and every work of faith, with power; that the Name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and ye in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.’ 2 Thessalonians 1:11-2 Kings : (R.V.) These words of the Apostle Paul were a prayer for the infant Christian Church at Thessalonica, a church founded by him some twenty years after the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12

‘To which end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfil every desire of goodness and every work of faith with power, that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.’ Having in mind the glory that is to be theirs Paul now assures them that that is why he and his companions can continually pray for them in full confidence. And their prayer is that God, counting... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Thessalonians 1:1-12

2 Thessalonians 1:1-2 Kings : . Introductory. Thanksgiving for the past and prayer for the future. Paul thanks God for the growing love of the Thessalonian Christians and their loyalty under persecution, and prays that they may be counted worthy of their high calling at the day of the Lord, when they will receive “ rest” and their opponents “ eternal destruction.” 2 Thessalonians 1:3 . For the emphasis on faith and love, see 1 Thessalonians 1:3 *. 2 Thessalonians 1:4 . persecutions: cf. 1... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Thessalonians 1:11

The apostle here again mentions his praying for these Thessalonians, as he had often mentioned it in the former Epistle. And the reason might be, because he was absent from them; they might the more need his prayer, and by telling them of it, he thereby assures them that he forgot them not. And the prayer he here makes for them hath reference to the discourse he had been upon, as appears by this word Εις ο: Wherefore, or for, or in order to which, we pray, & c. This calling; which is... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES2 Thessalonians 1:11. And fulfil all the good pleasure.—R.V. “every desire of goodness.” “As much as to say, May God mightily accomplish in you all that goodness would desire and that faith can effect” (Findlay).2 Thessalonians 1:12. That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you.—A little mirror may not increase the sum-total of sunlight, but it may cause some otherwise unobservant eye to note its brightness. So Christ’s infinite and eternal glory... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 2 Thessalonians 1:7-12

2 Thessalonians 1:7-12 The rest awaiting Christ's troubled saints is in the fullest sense to be their possession at the revelation of the Lord Jesus. He who is emphatically the coming One is to be revealed. There is a vividness in the word. He is now hidden. But when He comes again, every eye shall see Him. I. The term "everlasting" qualifying "destruction," as it here does, shows that this destruction is not extinction of being. It is not loss of being, but loss of wellbeing: for as its... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12

2 Thessalonians 1:11-12 Worthy of your Calling. 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 and unwholesome expectancy of the near approach or actual dawn of that day. This... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12

DISCOURSE: 2212MEETNESS FOR HEAVEN DESIRED2 Thessalonians 1:11-12. 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: 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.VARIOUS are the offices of Christian love; but none more valuable than that of intercession. In all its personal efforts, it... read more

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