1 Thessalonians

Question 1

Content of 1 Thessalonians

Answer 1

1- Paul greets them and remembers their faith, love, and hope

2- Remembers time among them, recalling his demeanor among them

3- Timothy’s report on their steadfastness

4- Sexual morality; brotherly/sisterly love; coming of the Lord

5- How to behave while awaiting Jesus’ return; closing exhortations

Question 2

1 Thessalonians - Key Concepts

Answer 2

• Reception of Paul’s ministry (he’d visited before, wanted to return)
• Sexual purity (control over one’s body)
• Mutual love (calls on them to continue to love one another)
• Rapture/Parousia (Jesus’ return to earth after his ascension)

Question 3

Finish the following quote from 1 Thessalonians 4:16

“For the Lord himself, with a cry of command, with the archangel’s call and with the sound of God’s trumpet, will…

Answer 3

…descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

Question 4

Finish the following quote from 1 Thessalonians 5:2

“For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord…

Answer 4

…will come like a thief in the night.

Question 5

Finish the following quote from 1 Thessalonians 5:15

“See that none of you repays evil for evil, but…

Answer 5

…always seek to do good to one another and to all.