- The elect and the damned are predestined by God.
1:4
- Paul, with his usual modesty, proclaims that he is holy, just, and blameless.
2:10
- Paul would have arrived earlier, but Satan hindered him.
2:18
- "Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?"
Paul believed that those alive in 49 CE would live to see Jesus come.
2:19
- "We told you before that we should
suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass." Paul thought that the tribulation that he believed would
precede Jesus' coming had
already passed.
3:4
- Every man should know how to possess his penis or his wife (depending on the translation) in a holy way.
4:4
- "Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss."
5:26