Though imperfect (3:10), the Thessalonians were standing fast in their faith (3:8), so Paul writes this letter as a response to encourage them all the more. The city of Thessalonica was a ...

Paul's very first letter, the earliest, single writing that we have in the New Testament is First Thessalonians and already in First Thessalonians Paul is having to console them when people are ...

2 Thessalonians 2:15 According to most Evangelicals ... Earlier in the same letter, St. Paul actually defines and commands Apostolic Tradition - "what you have heard from me before many witnesses ...

Like the first letter to this congregation, Second Thessalonians begins with a verse that indicates it was authored by Paul, ...