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1 Thessalonians 3
John707 recordsMark525 recordsMatthew987 recordsLuke929 recordsActs1146 records1 Thessalonians67 recordsGalatians138 records1 Corinthians357 records2 Corinthians250 recordsRomans340 recordsPhilippians84 recordsPhilemon22 recordsColossians74 recordsEphesians121 records2 Thessalonians36 records1 Timothy86 records1 Peter90 records2 Peter61 records1 John107 records2 John10 records3 John13 recordsJude23 recordsRevelation324 records
1 thessalonians.3.th3RoleFork
συνεργὸν τοῦ θεοῦ / συνεργόν / διάκονον τοῦ θεοῦ / combined readings
TEXTTRANSLATIONlow confidence
How is Timothy’s ministry role described?
The competing titles change how Timothy’s ministry is related to God and to Paul’s team, while every form serves the same narrative purpose of authorizing his mission to strengthen the Thessalonians.
Why this default
‘God’s coworker’ remains the project default because it is the difficult reading printed by SBLGNT and NA28 and best explains the servant substitutions and conflations; its direct support is narrow, so all five surviving streams remain open.
Evidence
Externalσυνεργὸν τοῦ θεοῦ is supported by D*, 33, Old Latin witnesses, Ambrosiaster, and Pelagius; B omits τοῦ θεοῦ. א, A, P, Ψ, 0278, 6, 81, 629*, 1241, 1739, 1881, 2464, Latin, and Coptic witnesses read διάκονον τοῦ θεοῦ. D2 and the Byzantine tradition combine διάκονον τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ συνεργὸν ἡμῶν; F and G combine διάκονον καὶ συνεργὸν τοῦ θεοῦ.
InternalThe unusual association of ‘coworker’ with God could prompt omission of the genitive or substitution of the safer title ‘servant’; the longer readings naturally conflate competing titles.
Project defaultGod’s coworker
Project default · difficult SBLGNT reading
Witnessesσυνεργὸν τοῦ θεοῦ · D*, 33, Old Latin, Ambrosiaster, PelagiusAlternativea coworker
Shorter Vaticanus reading
Witnessesσυνεργόν · BAlternativeGod’s servant
Broad servant reading
Witnessesδιάκονον τοῦ θεοῦ · א, A, P, Ψ, 0278, 6, 81, 629*, 1241, 1739, 1881, 2464, Latin, CopticAlternativeGod’s servant and our coworker
Byzantine combined reading
Witnessesδιάκονον τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ συνεργὸν ἡμῶν · D2, Byzantine traditionAlternativeGod’s servant and coworker
Western combined reading
Witnessesδιάκονον καὶ συνεργὸν τοῦ θεοῦ · F, GRecord integrity
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