Today’s Word [Greeting] (NIV) 1 Paul, Silas and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: 2 Grace and peace to you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. [Thanksgiving and Prayer] 3 We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters, and…
A second letter within months — written to steady a shaken church A Second Letter Within Months It is unusual to take up the pen again so soon after sending a letter. Yet Paul did exactly that. Only months after 1 Thessalonians, from the same city of Corinth, he wrote a second letter to the…
Today’s Word [A Final Word] (NIV) 17 I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them. 18 For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By…
Today’s Word [Personal Greetings] (NIV) 1 I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a deacon of the church in Cenchreae. 2 I ask you to receive her in the Lord in a way worthy of his people and to give her any help she may need from you, for she has been the benefactor of…
Today’s Word [Paul’s Plan to Visit Rome] (NIV) 22 This is why I have often been hindered from coming to you. 23 But now that there is no more place for me to work in these regions, and since I have been longing for many years to visit you, 24 I plan to do so…
Today’s Word [Paul the Minister to the Gentiles] (NIV) 14 I myself am convinced, my brothers and sisters, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with knowledge and competent to instruct one another. 15 Yet I have written you quite boldly on some points to remind you of them again, because of the grace…
Today’s Word [The Strong and the Weak] (NIV) 1 We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves. 2 Each of us should please our neighbors for their good, to build them up. 3 For even Christ did not please himself but, as it is written:…
Today’s Word [Do Not Cause Anyone to Stumble] (NIV) 13 Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister. 14 I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean…
Today’s Word [The Weak and the Strong] (NIV) 1 Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters. 2 One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. 3 The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not,…
Today’s Word [Love Fulfills the Law] (NIV) 8 Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law. 9 The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other command there may…