For our gospel came not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in full assurance, as you know what sort of persons we were among you for your sakes.

For from you, the word of the Lord sounded out, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also your faith in God has gone abroad in every place, so that we have no need to speak any thing.

For you yourselves know, brethren, our entrance among you, that it was not in vain.

For our exhortation arose not from deception, nor from uncleanness, nor was it with guile;

but as God had judged us worthy to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who tries our hearts.

so, having a strong affection for you, we were well pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God, but our own lives also, because you had become dear to us.

For you remember, brethren, our labor and toil; for, laboring night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any one of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.

For this reason, also, we thank God without ceasing; be cause, when you received the word of God, as preached by us, you embraced it, not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually works in you that believe.

who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and have persecuted us, and do not please God, and are opposed to all men,

But we, brethren, having been taken from you for a short time, in person, not in heart, did, with great desire, endeavor the more earnestly to see your face.

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even you, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? -You indeed are our glory and

night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

not in passionate desire, as the Gentiles do, who know not God;

for God has not called us for uncleanness, but for holiness.

Therefore, he that despises, despises not man, but God, who has given us his Holy Spirit.

But with respect to brotherly love, you have no need that I write to you: for you yourselves are taught of God to love one another;

in order that you may walk with propriety toward those who are without, and may have need of nothing.

But concerning those who have fallen asleep, I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that you may not grieve, as others who have no hope.

For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we, the living, who remain till the coming of the Lord, shall not precede those who are asleep

But, brethren, you have no need that I write to you of - the times and seasons;

for you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night:

for when they shall say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them, as the pains of birth upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape.

But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

You are all sons of light, and sons of day: we are not of night, nor of darkness.

Therefore, let us not sleep, as do others, but let us watch and be sober.

For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunken, are drunken in the night.

for God has not appointed us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Quench not the Spirit.

Despise not prophesyings.