so that ye became a model to all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.

and to wait for His Son from Heaven, Whom He raised from the dead, Jesus, Who delivers us from the coming wrath.

but even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, Who proveth our hearts.

Ye are witnesses, and God, how piously and righteously and unblamably we behaved toward you who believe;

that ye should walk worthily of God, Who is calling you into His own Kingdom and glory.

And, for this reason, we also give thanks to God without ceasing, that, having received the word of God which ye heard from us, ye received it, not as the word of men, but, as it truly is, the word of God, which also is working in you who believe.

who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and pleased not God, and are contrary to all men;

not in passion of desire, even as the gentiles, who know not God;

Therefore, indeed, he that rejects, rejects not man, but God, Who giveth His Holy Spirit to you.

and, in fact, ye do it to all the brethren who are in all Macedonia; but we exhort you, brethren, to abound yet more;

But we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those falling asleep, that ye sorrow not even as the rest who have no hope;

for, if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also those who fell asleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.

For this we say to You, in a word of the Lord, that we, the living who remain over to the coming of the Lord, shall in nowise precede those who fell asleep;

after that we, the living who are left over, will be caught up together with them in clouds, into the air, to meet the Lord; and so shall we always be with the Lord.

For those who sleep sleep at night, and those who are drunken are drunken at night.

Who died for us, that, whether we watch or sleep, we may live together with Him.

And we beseech you, brethren, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;

Faithful is He Who calleth you, Who also will do it.