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In this careful study of 1–2 Thessalonians, G. K. Beale offers an introduction that sets the letters in context and surveys their general content, highlighting issues surrounding their occasion and purpose. His passage-by-passage commentary seeks to explain what these letters mean to us today as well as what they meant for their original hearers.

motives. Paul has elaborated on two primary motives for an effective Christian witness in 2:1–12: to want to please God and to want others to please God. The first motive is foundational for the second. The well-spring for everything in the Christian life comes from a person’s desire to please God. But how can people acquire the desire to please God if they do not have it? If we have begun to have such a motive, how can we allow that motive to increase? This section explains how people can have sincere
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