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First Epistle to the Thessalonians
Book of the New Testament / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The First Epistle to the Thessalonians[lower-alpha 1] is a Pauline epistle of the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The epistle is attributed to Paul the Apostle, and is addressed to the church in Thessalonica, in modern-day Greece. It is likely among the first of Paul's letters, probably written by the end of AD 52,[3] in the reign of Claudius although some scholars believe the Epistle to the Galatians may have been written by AD 48.[4] The original language is Koine Greek.
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