and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, that is, Jesus who rescues us from the wrath to come.
Parallel translations
- WEB and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead — Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.
- KJV And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
- BSB and to await His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead—Jesus our deliverer from the coming wrath.
- NKJV and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.
- NLT And they speak of how you are looking forward to the coming of God’s Son from heaven—Jesus, whom God raised from the dead. He is the one who has rescued us from the terrors of the coming judgment.
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Quick answer
They now wait for God's risen Son, Jesus, who rescues believers from the coming wrath. The Christian life looks expectantly toward Christ's return.
Overview
Their conversion not only turned them to serve God but to await his Son from heaven, naming Jesus' resurrection and his future coming. Christ "delivers us from the wrath to come," pointing to God's righteous judgment and Jesus as the only refuge from it. This verse compresses the gospel into a forward-looking hope grounded in the cross and empty tomb, a theme that dominates the rest of the letter.
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- 1 Th 5:9For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
- Isa 25:8–9He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.
- Rom 5:9–10Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him.
- Matt 3:7But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
- Acts 2:24whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.
- 1 Th 4:16–17For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,
- 1 Pet 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
- Heb 9:28so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.
- 1 Pet 3:18Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
- Luke 3:7He said therefore to the multitudes who went out to be baptized by him, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
- Rom 4:25who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.
- 1 Pet 1:21who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.
- Rom 8:34Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
- Rev 1:18and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever more. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.
- Acts 1:11who also said, “You men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who was received up from you into the sky, will come back in the same way as you saw him going into the sky.”
- 1 Th 2:16forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.
- 2 Pet 3:14Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight.
- Heb 10:27but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.
- 1 Cor 1:7so that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;
- Acts 17:31because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”
- Gal 3:13Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”
- Acts 5:30–31The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed, hanging him on a tree.
- Matt 1:21She shall give birth to a son. You shall call his name Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”
- Phil 3:20For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;
- Rom 2:7to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
- Titus 2:13looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ;
- Gen 49:18I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.
- Rom 8:23–25Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.
- Acts 4:10be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, in him does this man stand here before you whole.
- Job 19:25–27But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
- Rev 1:7Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.
- 2 Pet 3:12looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, which will cause the burning heavens to be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?
- Acts 10:40–41God raised him up the third day, and gave him to be revealed,
- Acts 3:21whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets.
- Acts 3:15and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.
- Col 1:18He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
- 1 Cor 15:4–21that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
- 2 Tim 4:1I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:
- 1 Pet 2:21For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,
- 1 Th 2:7But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
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