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1 Thessalonians 5

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1 thessalonians.5.th5Peace

εἰρηνεύετε ἐν ἑαυτοῖς / αὐτοῖς

TEXThigh confidence

With whom should the community be at peace?

The pronoun changes the command’s social scope: one form addresses peace throughout the whole community, while the other focuses it on relations with the workers just mentioned.

Why this default

‘Among yourselves’ is default because SBLGNT agrees with Westcott-Hort, NA28, and Robinson-Pierpont; Tregelles’ ‘with them’ meaningfully narrows the command to relations with the workers.

Evidence

ExternalSBLGNT apparatus: ἑαυτοῖς — WH, NA28, RP; αὐτοῖς — Treg.

Internal‘With them’ links tightly to the leaders just mentioned, while ‘among yourselves’ broadens the closing command to the whole community.

Project defaultBe at peace among yourselves.

Project default · SBLGNT majority comparison reading

Witnessesἑαυτοῖς · SBLGNT; WH, NA28, RP
AlternativeBe at peace with them.

Tregelles reading

Witnessesαὐτοῖς · Treg
AlternativeLive peacefully with one another.

Majority reading · relational English

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