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1, 2 Thessalonians: Crossway Classic Commentaries is unavailable, but you can change that!

Forced out of Thessalonica by the Jews for his effective ministry, Paul wrote to encourage and teach new believers there. His first letter, according to John Calvin, contains a brief definition of true Christianity. It is a faith that is full of vigor, employing itself in the labors of love, intent upon the hope of the manifestation of Christ, despising everything else, and armed with an...

2. We always thank God for all of you. He praises, as he is wont, their faith and other virtues, not so much, however, for the purpose of praising them as to exhort them to perseverance. For it is no small spur to eagerness of pursuit when we reflect that God has adorned us with special endowments, that he may finish what he has begun, and that we have, under his guidance and direction, advanced in the right course in order that we may reach the goal. Just as a vain confidence in those virtues that
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