Paul picks up the familiar theme of assurance in 5:9–10. Thereby, he reaffirms the declaration made in verse 1:10. Although world would bear inescapable calamities, as believers, they most certainly had “the expectation of deliverance!” The deliverance mentioned in 1:10 is identical with that of 5:9, but was that a valid expectation? Could the Thessalonians rely on it? They could: For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation [deliverance] through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for