1 Thessalonians 5:9 BSB

1 Thessalonians 5:9

For God has not appointed us to suffer wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

For God appointed us not unto wrath, but unto the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

KJV

For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

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Commentary

3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

For God hath not appointed us to wrath - This is designed as an encouragement to effort to secure our salvation. The wish of God is to save us, and therefore we should watch and be sober; we should take to ourselves the whole of the Christian armor, and strive for victory. If he had appointed us to wrath, effort would have been in vain, for we could do nothing but yield to our inevitable destiny. The hope of a final triumph should animate us in our efforts, and cheer us in our struggles with our foes.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

And, as it is the salvation that Christians hope for to be for ever with the Lord, so one foundation of their hope is their union with him. And if they are united with Christ, and live in him, and live to him, here, the sleep of death will be no prejudice to the spiritual life, much less to the life of glory hereafter.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Christ "acquired (so the Greek for 'purchased') the Church (and its salvation) with His own blood" (Ac 20:28); each member is said to be appointed by God to the "acquiring of salvation." In the primary sense, God does the work; in the secondary sense, man does it.

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Original language & word study

18 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ὅτι	hoti	because	G3754 →
οὐκ	ouk	not	G3756 →
ἔθετο	etheto	has destined	G5087 →
ἡμᾶς	hēmas	us	G3165 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
θεὸς	theos	God	G2316 →
εἰς	eis	for	G1519 →
ὀργὴν	orgēn	wrath	G3709 →
ἀλλ᾽	all᾽	but	G235 →
εἰς	eis	for	G1519 →
περιποίησιν	peripoiēsin	obtaining	G4047 →
σωτηρίας	sōtērias	salvation	G4991 →
διὰ	dia	through	G1223 →
τοῦ	tou	the	G3588 →
κυρίου	kuriou	Lord	G2962 →
ἡμῶν	hēmōn	of us	G3165 →
Ἰησοῦ	Iēsou	Jesus	G2424 →
Χριστοῦ	Christou	Christ	G5547 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Acts 13:48
When the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord, and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.
leads to
- Romans 8:29–30
  For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.
- Ephesians 1:4
  For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love
Through
1 Peter 2:10
Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
leads to
- Hosea 2:23
  And I will sow her as My own in the land, and I will have compassion on ‘No Compassion.’ I will say to those called ‘Not My People,’ ‘You are My people,’ and they…
Through
Proverbs 16:4
The LORD has made everything for His purpose—even the wicked for the day of disaster.
leads to
- Romans 9:22
  What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?
- Isaiah 43:21
  The people I formed for Myself will declare My praise.
- 2 Peter 2:9
  if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.
Through
1 Thessalonians 1:10
and to await His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead—Jesus our deliverer from the coming wrath.
leads to
- Isaiah 25:8–9
  He will swallow up death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people from the whole earth. For the LORD has spoken.
- Romans 5:9–10
  Therefore, since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from wrath through Him!

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

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06About 1 Thessalonians

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About 1 Thessalonians