For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and also in the holy ghost and in much certainty, as ye know after what manner we behaved ourselves among you, for your sakes.

For from you sounded out the word of the Lord, not in Macedonia and in Achaia only: but your faith also which ye have unto God, spread herself abroad in all quarters, so greatly that it needeth not us to speak anything at all:

For ye yourselves brethren know of our entrance in unto you, how that it was not in vain:

Our exhortation was not to bring you to error, nor yet to uncleanness, neither was it with guile:

but as we were allowed of God, that the gospel should be committed unto us: even so we speak, not as though we intended to please men, but God, which trieth our hearts.

so was our affection toward you. Our good will was to have dealt unto you, not the gospel of God only: but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.

Ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail. For we laboured day and night, because we would not be grievous unto any of you, and preached unto you the gospel of God.

For this cause thank we God without ceasing, because that when ye received of us the word, wherewith God was preached, ye received it not as the word of man: but even as it was, indeed, the word of God; which worketh in you that believe.

which as they killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, even so have they persecuted us, and God they please not, and are contrary to all men:

Forasmuch, brethren, as we are kept from you for a season, as concerning the bodily presence - but not in the heart - we enforced the more to see you personally with great desire,

For what is our hope or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not ye it in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?

while we night and day pray exceedingly, that we might see you presently, and might fulfill that which is lacking in your faith.

and not in the lust of concupiscence, as do the heathen, which know not God,

For God hath not called us unto uncleanness: but unto holiness.

He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, which hath sent his holy spirit among you.

But as touching brotherly love, ye need not that I write unto you. For ye are taught of God to love one another.

I would not, brethren, have you ignorant concerning them which are fallen asleep, that ye sorrow not as others do which have no hope.

And this say we unto you in the word of the Lord, that we which live and are remaining in the coming of the Lord, shall not come before they which sleep.

Of the times and seasons brethren ye have no need that I write unto you:

for ye your selves know perfectly, that the day of the Lord shall come even as a thief in the night.

For when they shall say, "Peace, no danger," then cometh on them sudden destruction, as the travailing of a woman with child, and they shall not escape.

But ye brethren are not in darkness, that that day should come on you as it were a thief.

Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, neither of darkness.

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

For they that sleep, sleep in the night: and they that be drunken, are drunken in the night.

For God hath not appointed us unto wrath: but to obtain salvation by the means of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Quench not the spirit,

despise not prophesying.