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1:1 Paul and Silvanus and Timotheus to the assembly of
 Thessalonians in God [the] Father and [the] Lord Jesus Christ.
 Grace to you and peace.
1:2 We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of
 you at our prayers,
1:3 remembering unceasingly your work of faith, and labour of
 love, and enduring constancy of hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ,
 before our God and Father;
1:4 knowing, brethren beloved by God, your election.
1:5 For our glad tidings were not with you in word only, but
 also in power, and in [the] Holy Spirit, and in much assurance;
 even as ye know what we were among you for your sakes:
1:6 and *ye* became our imitators, and of the Lord, having
 accepted the word in much tribulation with joy of [the] Holy
 Spirit,
1:7 so that ye became models to all that believe in Macedonia
 and in Achaia:
1:8 for the word of the Lord sounded out from you, not only in
 Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith which [is]
 towards God has gone abroad, so that we have no need to say
 anything;
1:9 for they themselves relate concerning us what entering in we
 had to you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve a
 living and true God,
1:10 and to await his Son from the heavens, whom he raised from
 among the dead, Jesus, our deliverer from the coming wrath.
2:1 For ye know yourselves, brethren, our entering in which [we
 had] to you, that it has not been in vain;
2:2 but, having suffered before and been insulted, even as ye
 know, in Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you
 the glad tidings of God with much earnest striving.
2:3 For our exhortation [was] not of deceit, nor of uncleanness,
 nor in guile;
2:4 but even as we have been approved of God to have the glad
 tidings entrusted to us, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but
 God, who proves our hearts.
2:5 For we have not at any time been [among you] with flattering
 discourse, even as ye know, nor with a pretext for
 covetousness, God [is] witness;
2:6 nor seeking glory from men, neither from you nor from
 others, when we might have been a charge as Christ's apostles;
2:7 but have been gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse would
 cherish her own children.
2:8 Thus, yearning over you, we had found our delight in having
 imparted to you not only the glad tidings of God, but our own
 lives also, because ye had become beloved of us.
2:9 For ye remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working
 night and day, not to be chargeable to any one of you, we have
 preached to you the glad tidings of God.
2:10 *Ye* [are] witnesses, and God, how piously and righteously
 and blamelessly we have conducted ourselves with you that
 believe:
2:11 as ye know how, as a father his own children, we used to
 exhort each one of you, and comfort and testify,
2:12 that ye should walk worthy of God, who calls you to his own
 kingdom and glory.
2:13 And for this cause we also give thanks to God unceasingly
 that, having received [the] word of [the] report of God by us,
 ye accepted, not men's word, but, even as it is truly, God's
 word, which also works in you who believe.
2:14 For *ye*, brethren, have become imitators of the assemblies
 of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; for *ye* also have
 suffered the same things of your own countrymen as also *they*
 of the Jews,
2:15 who have both slain the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and
 have driven us out by persecution, and do not please God, and
 [are] against all men,
2:16 forbidding us to speak to the nations that they may be
 saved, that they may fill up their sins always: but wrath has
 come upon them to the uttermost.
2:17 But we, brethren, having been bereaved of you and separated
 for a little moment in person, not in heart, have used more
 abundant diligence to see your face with much desire;
2:18 wherefore we have desired to come to you, even I Paul, both
 once and twice, and Satan has hindered us.
2:19 For what [is] our hope, or joy, or crown of boasting? [are]
 not *ye* also before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
2:20 for ye are our glory and joy.
3:1 Wherefore, being no longer able to refrain ourselves, we
 thought good to be left alone in Athens,
3:2 and sent Timotheus, our brother and fellow-workman under God
 in the glad tidings of Christ, to confirm you and encourage
 [you] concerning your faith,
3:3 that no one might be moved by these afflictions. (For
 yourselves know that we are set for this;
3:4 for also, when we were with you, we told you beforehand we
 are about to be in tribulation, even as also it came to pass,
 and ye know.)
3:5 For this reason *I* also, no longer able to refrain myself,
 sent to know your faith, lest perhaps the tempter had tempted
 you and our labour should be come to nothing.
3:6 But Timotheus having just come to us from you, and brought
 to us the glad tidings of your faith and love, and that ye have
 always good remembrance of us, desiring much to see us, even as
 we also you;
3:7 for this reason we have been comforted in you, brethren, in
 all our distress and tribulation, through your faith,
3:8 because now we live if *ye* stand firm in [the] Lord.
3:9 For what thanksgiving can we render to God for you, for all
 the joy wherewith we rejoice on account of you before our God,
3:10 night and day beseeching exceedingly to the end that we may
 see your face, and perfect what is lacking in your faith?
3:11 But our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct
 our way to you.
3:12 But you, may the Lord make to exceed and abound in love
 toward one another, and toward all, even as we also towards
 you,
3:13 in order to the confirming of your hearts unblamable in
 holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord
 Jesus with all his saints.
4:1 For the rest, then, brethren, we beg you and exhort you in
 [the] Lord Jesus, even as ye have received from us how ye ought
 to walk and please God, even as ye also do walk, that ye would
 abound still more.
4:2 For ye know what charges we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
4:3 For this is [the] will of God, [even] your sanctification,
 that ye should abstain from fornication;
4:4 that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in
 sanctification and honour,
4:5 (not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know not
 God,)
4:6 not overstepping the rights of and wronging his brother in
 the matter, because the Lord [is] the avenger of all these
 things, even as we also told you before, and have fully
 testified.
4:7 For God has not called us to uncleanness, but in
 sanctification.
4:8 He therefore that [in this] disregards [his brother],
 disregards, not man, but God, who has given also his Holy
 Spirit to you.
4:9 Now concerning brotherly love ye have no need that we should
 write to you, for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one
 another.
4:10 For also ye do this towards all the brethren in the whole
 of Macedonia; but we exhort you, brethren, to abound still
 more,
4:11 and to seek earnestly to be quiet and mind your own
 affairs, and work with your [own] hands, even as we charged
 you,
4:12 that ye may walk reputably towards those without, and may
 have need of no one.
4:13 But we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning
 them that are fallen asleep, to the end that ye be not grieved
 even as also the rest who have no hope.
4:14 For if we believe that Jesus has died and has risen again,
 so also God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep
 through Jesus.
4:15 (For this we say to you in [the] word of [the] Lord, that
 *we*, the living, who remain to the coming of the Lord, are in
 no way to anticipate those who have fallen asleep;
4:16 for the Lord himself, with an assembling shout, with
 archangel's voice and with trump of God, shall descend from
 heaven; and the dead in Christ shall rise first;
4:17 then *we*, the living who remain, shall be caught up
 together with them in [the] clouds, to meet the Lord in [the]
 air; and thus we shall be always with [the] Lord.
4:18 So encourage one another with these words.)
5:1 But concerning the times a