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1:1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the
 Thessalonians [which is] in God the Father and [in] the Lord
 Jesus Christ: Grace [be] unto you, and peace, from God our
 Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1:2 We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of
 you in our prayers;
1:3 Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour
 of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the
 sight of God and our Father;
1:4 Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.
1:5 For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in
 power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know
 what manner of men we were among you for your sake.
1:6 And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having
 received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy
 Ghost:
1:7 So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia
 and Achaia.
1:8 For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in
 Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to
 God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any
 thing.
1:9 For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we
 had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the
 living and true God;
1:10 And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from
 the dead, [even] Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to
 come.
2:1 For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you,
 that it was not in vain:
2:2 But even after that we had suffered before, and were
 shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in
 our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much
 contention.
2:3 For our exhortation [was] not of deceit, nor of uncleanness,
 nor in guile:
2:4 But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the
 gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which
 trieth our hearts.
2:5 For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye
 know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God [is] witness:
2:6 Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor [yet] of
 others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of
 Christ.
2:7 But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her
 children:
2:8 So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to
 have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also
 our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.
2:9 For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for
 labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable
 unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
2:10 Ye [are] witnesses, and God [also], how holily and justly
 and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:
2:11 As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every
 one of you, as a father [doth] his children,
2:12 That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto
 his kingdom and glory.
2:13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because,
 when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye
 received [it] not [as] the word of men, but as it is in truth,
 the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that
 believe.
2:14 For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God
 which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered
 like things of your own countrymen, even as they [have] of the
 Jews:
2:15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and
 have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary
 to all men:
2:16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be
 saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon
 them to the uttermost.
2:17 But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in
 presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see
 your face with great desire.
2:18 Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once
 and again; but Satan hindered us.
2:19 For what [is] our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing?
 [Are] not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at
 his coming?
2:20 For ye are our glory and joy.
3:1 Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it
 good to be left at Athens alone;
3:2 And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and
 our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you,
 and to comfort you concerning your faith:
3:3 That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for
 yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.
3:4 For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that
 we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye
 know.
3:5 For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to
 know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted
 you, and our labour be in vain.
3:6 But now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us
 good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good
 remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we
 also [to see] you:
3:7 Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our
 affliction and distress by your faith:
3:8 For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.
3:9 For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all
 the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;
3:10 Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your
 face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
3:11 Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ,
 direct our way unto you.
3:12 And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one
 toward another, and toward all [men], even as we [do] toward
 you:
3:13 To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in
 holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord
 Jesus Christ with all his saints.
4:1 Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort [you]
 by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought
 to walk and to please God, [so] ye would abound more and more.
4:2 For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
4:3 For this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification,
 that ye should abstain from fornication:
4:4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel
 in sanctification and honour;
4:5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which
 know not God:
4:6 That no [man] go beyond and defraud his brother in [any]
 matter: because that the Lord [is] the avenger of all such, as
 we also have forewarned you and testified.
4:7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto
 holiness.
4:8 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who
 hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
4:9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto
 you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
4:10 And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in
 all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase
 more and more;
4:11 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business,
 and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
4:12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and
 [that] ye may have lack of nothing.
4:13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren,
 concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as
 others which have no hope.
4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so
 them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
4:15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we
 which are alive [and] remain unto the coming of the Lord shall
 not prevent them which are asleep.
4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a
 shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of
 God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
4:17 Then we which are alive [and] remain shall be caught up
 together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air:
 and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
4:18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
5:1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need
 that I write unto you.
5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so
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