{"id":4225,"date":"2016-05-14T07:40:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T13:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=4225"},"modified":"2023-03-02T06:39:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T12:39:19","slug":"1-thessalonians-41-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=4225","title":{"rendered":"1 Thessalonians 4:1-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">1 <span class=\"text 1Thess-4-1\">Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God;<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><em><span id=\"en-NKJV-29606\" class=\"text 1Thess-4-2\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup class=\"versenum\">2\u00a0<\/sup>for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>finally (v.1) = lit. &#8220;for the rest&#8221; \u2014 marks a transition in subject matter<\/h3>\n<h3>then (v.1) = therefore<\/h3>\n<h3>urge (v.1) = ask, beg, make an earnest request<\/h3>\n<h3>exhort (v.1) = encourage \u2014 In the Greek, it reads &#8220;We beseech you, and we exhort in the Lord Jesus&#8221;<\/h3>\n<h3>to walk and to please God (v.1) \u2014 &#8220;to walk, even to please God&#8221;<\/h3>\n<h3>walk (v.1) \u2014 <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=2044\">Colossians 1:10<\/a><\/span> \u2014 <em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">T<span id=\"en-NKJV-29476\" class=\"text Col-1-10\">hat you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>commandments (v.2) = charges \u2014 used only of commands received from a superior and transmitted to others<\/h3>\n<h3>through the Lord Jesus (v.2) \u2014 Paul&#8217;s charges to the Thessalonians came from the Lord<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God; 2\u00a0for you know what commandments we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=4225\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-thessalonians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4225"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7516,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225\/revisions\/7516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}