and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

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

and charged you to walk worthily of God who calls you into his kingdom and glory.

For this cause also we thank God without ceasing, that receiving the word of God heard from us, you received not a word of men, but, as it is in truth, a word of God, who also works in you that believe.

who also killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and persecuted us, and who please not God and are hostile to all men,

not with inordinate desires like the gentiles who know not God,

He therefore that despises, despises not man, but God, who also gives us his Holy Spirit.

And we wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those that have fallen asleep, that you may not grieve as others who have no hope.

For we tell you this by the word of the Lord, that we who live and remain till the coming of the Lord, shall not anticipate those that have fallen asleep,

then we the living who remain shall be caught up together with them in clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so we shall be always with the Lord.

but let us who are of day be sober, putting on a cuirass of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation,

who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we may live together with him.

And we beseech you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and preside over you in the Lord and admonish you,

Faithful is he that calls you, who will also perform.