Passage

1 Thessalonians 1.10

Book: 1 Thessalonians · ASV / WEB / KJV / YLT

Immediate context (±2 verses)

ASV

8. For from you hath sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith to God-ward is gone forth; so that we need not to speak anything. 9. For they themselves report concerning us what manner of entering in we had unto you; and how ye turned unto God from idols, to serve a living and true God,

10. and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, who delivereth us from the wrath to come. (1 Thessalonians 1:8-10, ASV)

WEB

8. For from you the word of the Lord has been declared, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out; so that we need not to say anything. 9. For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you; and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God,

10. and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come. (1 Thessalonians 1:8-10, WEB)

KJV

8. For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing. 9. For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye 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, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come. (1 Thessalonians 1:8-10, KJV)

YLT

8. for from you hath sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God did go forth, so that we have no need to say anything, 9. for they themselves concerning us do declare what entrance we had unto you, and how ye did turn unto God from the idols, to serve a living and true God,

10. and to wait for His Son from the heavens, whom He did raise out of the dead, Jesus, who is rescuing us from the anger that is coming. (1 Thessalonians 1:8-10, YLT)

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Setting

Speaker: Paul, writing with Silvanus (Silas) and Timothy, who are named as co-senders in the opening (1 Thess 1:1).
Audience: The church in Thessalonica, capital of the Roman province of Macedonia; a largely Gentile congregation of recent converts (1 Thess 1:9) founded on the second missionary journey (Acts 17:1-9).
Location: Written from Corinth, shortly after Timothy returned with news of the young church (1 Thess 3:6).
Time period: c. AD 50-51. The Gallio inscription from Delphi fixes Paul in Corinth around AD 51-52 (Acts 18:12), which makes this letter either the earliest or one of the two earliest surviving Pauline writings, roughly twenty years after the crucifixion.

Theological reading

"...and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, that is Jesus, who rescues us from the wrath to come."

Part of the conversion formula. With verse 9 this forms a compressed summary of the missionary preaching: turn from idols, serve the living God, wait for His Son. Its formulaic shape and its early date make it one of the oldest surviving statements of Christian belief, and it contains resurrection, sonship, parousia, and deliverance from judgment in a single sentence.

"Whom He raised from the dead." The resurrection is stated as the Father's act on the Son, which is Paul's usual formulation (Romans 4:24; Galatians 1:1) and which sits alongside texts where Jesus is the agent of His own rising (John 10:18). The trinitarian shape of the New Testament's resurrection language is not systematized here but it is already present.

"To wait." Anamenein, to wait expectantly, occurs only here in the New Testament. Christian existence in this letter is oriented forward; every chapter ends with a reference to the Lord's coming.

"The wrath to come." Orgē in 1 Thessalonians is eschatological and future, and Jesus is named as the one who rescues (rhyomenon, present participle, the rescuing one) from it. The letter never treats this as a reason for the church's present fear; it treats it as the reason their present suffering is not the final word. See 1 Thess 5:9.

Key words

Theologically-loaded Greek or Hebrew words in this verse may have entries in the lexicon. Curated to roughly 100 contested terms across the corpus, not every word; see Lexicon Roadmap.

G3498 - nekros, nekros, Strong's G3498
G1453 - egeiro, egeiro, Strong's G1453
G5207 - huios, huios, Strong's G5207
G2424 - Iesous, Iesous, Strong's G2424

Quoted in

Concepts:

Lexicon:

G0629 - apolytrosis

Passages:

1 Thessalonians 5.9

Why these four translations

ris3n chose ASV, WEB, KJV, and YLT for two reasons together. They are the most literal English translations available (formal-equivalence: word-for-word renderings that preserve the Hebrew and Greek grammar rather than smoothing it into modern dynamic-equivalence idiom). And they are in the public domain in the United States, which means fair-use quotation at any length requires no publisher license. Modern licensed translations (NASB95, ESV, NIV) restrict volume of quotation under their copyright terms, so they are not used at stub-level coverage here. NASB95 appears only on hand-curated rich passage hubs under Lockman Foundation's fair-use allowance.

The four:

ASV (American Standard Version, 1901). The basis of the modern critical-text English tradition.
WEB (World English Bible, contemporary). Public-domain revision in the ASV line, in current English.
KJV (King James Version, 1611). Reformation-era, Textus Receptus base.
YLT (Young's Literal Translation, Robert Young, 1862). Hyper-literal preservation of Hebrew and Greek grammar; useful for word-study work even where English reads stiff.

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