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- I THESSALONIANS 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.
- I THESSALONIANS 1:2 We give thanks to God always for you all,
- making mention of you in our prayers;
- I THESSALONIANS 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;
- I THESSALONIANS 1:4 Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of
- God.
- I THESSALONIANS 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.
- I THESSALONIANS 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:
- I THESSALONIANS 1:7 So that ye were ensamples to all that believe
- in Macedonia and Achaia.
- I THESSALONIANS 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.
- I THESSALONIANS 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;
- I THESSALONIANS 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.
- I THESSALONIANS 2:1 For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance
- in unto you, that it was not in vain:
- I THESSALONIANS 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.
- I THESSALONIANS 2:3 For our exhortation {was} not of deceit, nor
- of uncleanness, nor in guile:
- I THESSALONIANS 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.
- I THESSALONIANS 2:5 For neither at any time used we flattering
- words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God {is} witness:
- I THESSALONIANS 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.
- I THESSALONIANS 2:7 But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse
- cherisheth her children:
- I THESSALONIANS 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.
- I THESSALONIANS 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.
- I THESSALONIANS 2:10 Ye {are} witnesses, and God {also}, how
- holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you
- that believe:
- I THESSALONIANS 2:11 As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and
- charged every one of you, as a father {doth} his children,
- I THESSALONIANS 2:12 That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath
- called you unto his kingdom and glory.
- I THESSALONIANS 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.
- I THESSALONIANS 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:
- I THESSALONIANS 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:
- I THESSALONIANS 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.
- I THESSALONIANS 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.
- I THESSALONIANS 2:18 Wherefore we would have come unto you, even
- I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.
- I THESSALONIANS 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?
- I THESSALONIANS 2:20 For ye are our glory and joy.
- I THESSALONIANS 3:1 Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we
- thought it good to be left at Athens alone;
- I THESSALONIANS 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:
- I THESSALONIANS 3:3 That no man should be moved by these
- afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.
- I THESSALONIANS 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.
- I THESSALONIANS 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.
- I THESSALONIANS 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:
- I THESSALONIANS 3:7 Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over
- you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:
- I THESSALONIANS 3:8 For now we live, if ye stand fast in the
- Lord.
- I THESSALONIANS 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;
- I THESSALONIANS 3:10 Night and day praying exceedingly that we
- might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in
- your faith?
- I THESSALONIANS 3:11 Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord
- Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.
- I THESSALONIANS 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:
- I THESSALONIANS 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.
- I THESSALONIANS 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.
- I THESSALONIANS 4:2 For ye know what commandments we gave you by
- the Lord Jesus.
- I THESSALONIANS 4:3 For this is the will of God, {even} your
- sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
- I THESSALONIANS 4:4 That every one of you should know how to
- possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
- I THESSALONIANS 4:5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the
- Gentiles which know not God:
- I THESSALONIANS 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.
- I THESSALONIANS 4:7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness,
- but unto holiness.
- I THESSALONIANS 4:8 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not
- man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
- I THESSALONIANS 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.
- I THESSALONIANS 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;
- I THESSALONIANS 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;
- I THESSALONIANS 4:12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that
- are without, and {that} ye may have lack of nothing.
- I THESSALONIANS 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.
- I THESSALONIANS 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.
- I THESSALONIANS 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.
- I THESSALONIANS 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:
- I THESSALONIANS 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.
- I THESSALONIANS 4:18 Wherefore comfort one another with these
- words.
- I THESSALONIANS 5:1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren,
- ye have no need that I write unto you.
- I THESSALONIANS 5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of
- the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
- I THESSALONIANS 5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety;
- then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman
- with child; and they shall not escape.
- I THESSALONIANS 5:4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that
- that day should overtake you as a thief.
- I THESSALONIANS 5:5 Ye are all the children of light, and the
- children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
- I THESSALONIANS 5:6 Therefore let us not sleep, as {do} others;
- but let us watch and be sober.
- I THESSALONIANS 5:7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and
- they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
- I THESSALONIANS 5:8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober,
- putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet,
- the hope of salvation.
- I THESSALONIANS 5:9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but
- to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
- I THESSALONIANS 5:10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or
- sleep, we should live together with him.
- I THESSALONIANS 5:11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and
- edify one another, even as also ye do.
- I THESSALONIANS 5:12 And we beseech you, brethren, to know them
- which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and
- admonish you;
- I THESSALONIANS 5:13 And to esteem them very highly in love for
- their work's sake. {And} be at peace among yourselves.
- I THESSALONIANS 5:14 Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that
- are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be
- patient toward all {men}.
- I THESSALONIANS 5:15 See that none render evil for evil unto any
- {man}; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves,
- and to all {men}.
- I THESSALONIANS 5:16 Rejoice evermore.
- I THESSALONIANS 5:17 Pray without ceasing.
- I THESSALONIANS 5:18 In everything give thanks: for this is the
- will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
- I THESSALONIANS 5:19 Quench not the Spirit.
- I THESSALONIANS 5:20 Despise not prophesyings.
- I THESSALONIANS 5:21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is
- good.
- I THESSALONIANS 5:22 Abstain from all appearance of evil.
- I THESSALONIANS 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you
- wholly; and {I pray God} your whole spirit and soul and body be
- preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- I THESSALONIANS 5:24 Faithful {is} he that calleth you, who also
- will do {it}.
- I THESSALONIANS 5:25 Brethren, pray for us.
- I THESSALONIANS 5:26 Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss.
- I THESSALONIANS 5:27 I charge you by the Lord that this epistle
- be read unto all the holy brethren.
- I THESSALONIANS 5:28 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ {be} with
- you. Amen.