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It is an indication of the generally good state of the text that in the eight chapters of these two epistles, UBS3 notes only twenty passages where variants warrant listing, and not one of these is sufficiently doubtful to warrant a D rating. This does not mean that there are no problems. There can be endless arguments about whether to read "gentle” or "babies” in 1 Thessalonians 2:7, where the MSS differ only as to whether to include or omit a Greek v (the letter n). But the thrust of Paul’s argument is not greatly affected, whichever we choose. So with other passages.