1 Thessalonians 5

1 Thessalonians 5 is the fifth (and the last) chapter of the First Epistle to the Thessalonians in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It is authored by Paul the Apostle, Silas, and Saint Timothy.^[1][2]

Text

• The original text is written in Koine Greek.
• Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter are:
  • Papyrus 46 (ca. AD 200; extant: verses 5, 23-28)
  • Papyrus 30 (3rd century)
  • Codex Vaticanus (AD 325-350)
  • Codex Sinaiticus (AD 330-360)
  • Codex Alexandrinus (ca. AD 400-440)
  • Codex Freerianus (ca. AD 450; extant: verses 1, 9-12, 23-27)
  • Codex Claromontanus (ca. AD 550)
• This chapter is divided into 28 verses.

Structure

This chapter can be grouped (with cross references to other parts of the Bible):

• 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 = The Day of the Lord
• 1 Thessalonians 5:12-22 = Various Exhortations
• 1 Thessalonians 5:23-28 = Blessing and Admonition

Verse 2

New King James Version

For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night.^[3]

• For yourselves know perfectly

With great exactness and accuracy, with great clearness and perspicuity, as a certain truth, which was made plain and evident to them, and about which there could be no question; and which perfect knowledge they had, either from the words of Christ, ( Matthew 24:42-44 ), or from the ministration of the apostle and his fellow labourers, when among them:^[4]

• that the day of the Lord;

of the Lord Jesus, when he will show himself to be King of kings, and Lord of lords, and the Judge of the whole earth; and which is sometimes styled the day of the Son of man, and the day of God, for Christ will appear then most gloriously, both in his divine and human nature; the day of redemption, that is, of the body from the grave, and from corruption and mortality; and the last day in which will be the resurrection of the dead, and the day of judgment, in which Christ will come to judge the quick and dead: and which^[4]

• so cometh as a thief in the night;

at an unawares, and the Lord himself in that day will so come, (Revelation 3:3) (16:1) respect is had not to the character of the thief, nor to the end of his coming; but to the manner of it, in the dark, indiscernibly, suddenly, and when not thought of and looked for; and such will be the coming of Christ, it will be sudden, and unknown before hand, and when least thought of and expected: and since the Thessalonians knew this full well, it was needless for the apostle to write about the time and season of it; which they were sensible of, could no more be known and fixed, than the coming of a thief into anyone of their houses.^[4]

See also

• Jesus Christ
• Second Coming
• Other related Bible parts: Isaiah 2, Joel 1, Joel 3, Zephaniah 1, Matthew 24, Revelation 19

References

1. ↑ Halley, Henry H. Halley's Bible Handbook: an abbreviated Bible commentary. 23rd edition. Zondervan Publishing House. 1962.
2. ↑ Holman Illustrated Bible Handbook. Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville, Tennessee. 2012.
3. ↑ 1 Thessalonians 5:2
4. 1 2 3 John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible, - 1 Thessalonians 5:2

External links

• 1 Thessalonians 5 NIV