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01:01 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.
01:02 We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention
of you in our prayers;
01:03 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;
01:04 Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.
01:05 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.
01:06 And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having
received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:
01:07 So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in
Macedonia and Achaia.
01:08 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.
01:09 For they themselves show 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;
01:10 And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from
the dead, [even] Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to
come.
02:01 For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you,
that it was not in vain:
02:02 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.
02:03 For our exhortation [was] not of deceit, nor of
uncleanness, nor in guile:
02:04 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.
02:05 For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye
know, nor a cloak of covetousness; God [is] witness:
02:06 Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor [yet] of
others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of
Christ.
02:07 But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth
her children:
02:08 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.
02:09 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.
02:10 Ye [are] witnesses, and God [also], how holily and justly
and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:
02:11 As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged
every one of you, as a father [doth] his children,
02:12 That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you
unto his kingdom and glory.
02:13 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.
02:14 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:
02:15 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:
02:16 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.
02:17 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.
02:18 Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once
and again; but Satan hindered us.
02:19 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?
02:20 For ye are our glory and joy.
03:01 Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it
good to be left at Athens alone;
03:02 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:
03:03 That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for
yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.
03:04 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.
03:05 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.
03:06 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:
03:07 Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all
our affliction and distress by your faith:
03:08 For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.
03:09 For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for
all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;
03:10 Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your
face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
03:11 Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ,
direct our way unto you.
03:12 And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one
toward another, and toward all [men], even as we [do] toward you:
03:13 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.
04:01 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.
04:02 For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord
Jesus.
04:03 For this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification,
that ye should abstain from fornication:
04:04 That every one of you should know how to possess his
vessel in sanctification and honour;
04:05 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles
which know not God:
04:06 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.
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