1 Tesalonika 1:6

1:6 And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, when you received ¹  the message with joy that comes from the Holy Spirit, despite great affliction.

1 Tesalonika 1:10

1:10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus our deliverer from the coming wrath. ² 

1 Tesalonika 4:14

4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also we believe that ³  God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep as Christians. ⁴ 

[1:6]  ¹ tn Or “after you received.”

[1:10]  ² sn The coming wrath. This wrath is an important theme in 1 Thess 5.

[4:14]  ³ tn “we believe that” is understood from the first clause of the verse, which is parallel. Grk “so also God will bring.”

[4:14]  ⁴ tn Grk “those who have fallen asleep through Jesus.” It is possible that “through Jesus” describes “bring,” but this gives the unlikely double reference, “through Jesus God will bring them with Jesus.” Instead it describes their “falling sleep,” since through him their death is only sleep and not the threat it once was. Also Christians are those whose total existence – life and death – is in and through and for Christ (1 Cor 8:6).