How this worksGuide & definitions
Quick start
- Choose a book and chapter using the picker at the top.
- Read the Berean Standard Bible text in the main column.
- Hover a verse number in the passage to open a manuscript list and timeline.
- Click a verse number or use “Full verse page” for GA lookup, commentary, Greek tools, and (on ECM books) textual apparatus.
- Click any manuscript siglum (e.g. 01, P46) to open its catalog record.
This book
Hover any verse to see manuscripts whose content includes 1 Thessalonians. The list is the same at every verse in this book.
The chapter view is for reading and quick manuscript discovery. Hover verse superscripts for a preview; open the verse page for full lists, timelines, and analysis tools.
Two manuscript lists
- Book catalog
- Manuscripts whose surviving text includes this book (from the Kurzgefaßte Liste catalog). The same list appears at every verse — it is not verse-specific attestation.
- ECM
- The Editio Critica Maior (ECM) is the scholarly critical edition of the Greek New Testament. Its apparatus records which manuscripts attest each textual variant at a specific verse.
Sources
English text: Berean Standard Bible (helloao API). NT manuscript catalog and apparatus: Münster NTVMR. Extrabiblical catalog: scholarly inventories with bundled JSON + Firestore. Pre-indexed lists enable fast hover; apparatus XML is fetched live on ECM verse pages.
1 Thessalonians 2The chapter view is for reading and quick manuscript discovery. Hover verse superscripts for a preview; open the verse page for full lists, timelines, and analysis tools.
Open verse
Hover a verse number in the passage to open a manuscript list and timeline. Open the verse page for GA lookup, commentary, and the full manuscript list.
1You yourselves know, brothers, that our visit to you was not in vain.2As you are aware, we had already endured suffering and shameful treatment in Philippi. But in the face of strong opposition, we were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God.3For our appeal does not arise from deceit or ulterior motives or trickery.4Instead, we speak as those approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, not in order to please men but God, who examines our hearts.5As you know, we never used words of flattery or any pretext for greed. God is our witness!6Nor did we seek praise from you or from anyone else, although as apostles of Christ we had authority to demand it.7On the contrary, we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother caring for her children.8We cared so deeply that we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God, but our own lives as well. That is how beloved you have become to us.9Surely you recall, brothers, our labor and toil. We worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to anyone while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.10You are witnesses, and so is God, of how holy, righteous, and blameless our conduct was among you who believed.11For you know that we treated each of you as a father treats his own children—12encouraging you, comforting you, and urging you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.13And we continually thank God because, when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God, which is also now at work in you who believe.14For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Judea that are in Christ Jesus. You suffered from your own countrymen the very things they suffered from the Jews,15who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,16hindering us from telling the Gentiles how they may be saved. As a result, they continue to heap up their sins to full capacity; the utmost wrath has come upon them.17Brothers, although we were torn away from you for a short time (in person, not in heart), our desire to see you face to face was even more intense.18For we wanted to come to you—indeed I, Paul, tried again and again—but Satan obstructed us.19After all, who is our hope, our joy, our crown of boasting, if it is not you yourselves in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His coming?20You are indeed our glory and our joy.