1 Thessalonians 2 - Study Questions Flashcards
HCs 10 Give a complete answer. From 1 Thessalonians chapter 2.
In the opening verse, how do the authors address their readers?
1Th 2:1 dear brothers and sisters
HCs 10 Chapter analysis answer. From the section titled “Paul Remembers His Visit.”
Where was Paul before he came to Thessalonica?
1Th 2:2 Philippi
HCs 20 3-part answer. From the section titled “Paul Remembers His Visit.”
Paul didn’t preach with what?
1Th 2:3 So you can see we were not preaching with any deceit or impure motives or trickery.
HCs 30 Statement and question. Give a complete answer. From the section titled “Paul Remembers His Visit.”
Paul didn’t use trickery when he preached to the Thessalonians. Why not?
1Th 2:4 For we speak as messengers approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News. Our purpose is to please God, not people. He alone examines the motives of our hearts.
HCs 10 Statement and question. Give a complete answer. From the section titled “Paul Remembers His Visit.”
Paul said that he didn’t pretend to be a friend of the Thessalonians. Why might he have pretended to be their friend?
1Th 2:5 to get your money!
HCs 10 From the section titled “Paul Remembers His Visit.”
Paul never sought what from the Thessalonians?
1Th 2:6 human praise
HCs 20 Give a complete answer. From the section titled “Paul Remembers His Visit.”
Instead of making demands from the Thessalonians, what did Paul do?
1Th 2:7 As apostles of Christ we certainly had a right to make some demands of you, but instead we were like children among you. Or we were like a mother feeding and caring for her own children.
HCs 20 Give a complete answer. From the section titled “Paul Remembers His Visit.”
How much did Paul love the Thessalonians?
1Th 2:8 We loved you so much that we shared with you not only God’s Good News but our own lives, too.
HCs 20 2-part question. Give a complete answer. From the section titled “Paul Remembers His Visit.”
Night and day, what did Paul do and why?
1Th 2:9 Don’t you remember, dear brothers and sisters, how hard we worked among you? Night and day we toiled to earn a living so that we would not be a burden to any of you as we preached God’s Good News to you.
HCs 20 Give a complete answer. From the section titled “Paul Remembers His Visit.”
The Thessalonians witnessed what?
1Th 2:10 You yourselves are our witnesses - and so is God - that we were devout and honest and faultless toward all of you believers.
HCs 20 Scripture text question. Give a complete answer. From the section titled “Paul Remembers His Visit.”
Referring to the Thessalonians, how did Paul say he treated quote “each of you”?
1Th 2:11 And you know that we treated each of you as a father treats his own children.
HCs 30 Scripture text question. Give 3 complete answers. From the section titled “Paul Remembers His Visit.”
How does a father treat quote “his own children”?
1Th 2:12 We pleaded with you, encouraged you, and urged you to live your lives in a way that God would consider worthy. For he called you to share in his Kingdom and glory.
HCs 10 Give a complete answer. From the section titled “Paul Remembers His Visit.”
What continues to work in those who believe?
1Th 2:13 the very word of God
HCs 20 2-part Scripture text question. Give a complete answer. From the section titled “Paul Remembers His Visit.”
Who suffered from whom because of their quote “belief in Christ Jesus”?
1Th 2:14 And then, dear brothers and sisters, you suffered persecution from your own countrymen. In this way, you imitated the believers in God’s churches in Judea who, because of their belief in Christ Jesus, suffered from their own people, the Jews.
HCs 10 2-part question. From the section titled “Paul Remembers His Visit.”
Some Jews fail to PLEASE whom and work AGAINST whom?
1Th 2:15 God, all humanity
