The salutation by the hand of me Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.

Paul, Silas, and Timothy: To the Church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. May grace and peace be granted to you.

I am continually thanking God for all, always making mention of you in my prayers,

Being conscious, my brothers, dear to God, that you have been marked out by God's purpose;

for my gospel did not come to you in word only, but in power also, and in the Holy Spirit, and with deep conviction. For you know also the manner in which I behaved myself among you for your sakes.

From you, in fact, hath sounded forth the word of the Lord - not only m Macedonia and in Achaia, but, in every place, your faith which is toward God, hath gone forth, so that, no need, have we to be saying anything;

For, my brothers, you yourselves know our coming in to you, that it was not in vain.

for you remember that although I had already borne ill-treatment and insult at Philippi, I took courage in my God to tell you the gospel of God, in the face of much opposition.

For my preaching was not grounded on a delusion, or on impure motives, on in deceit.

But as my fitness to be entrusted with the gospel has been tested and approved by God, I so speak, not to please men, but to please God, who is testing my motives.

For as you well know, I never resorted to flattery, nor to any pretext for enriching myself. God is my witness!

But we became gentle in your midst, as a nurse may cherish her own children,

So in my fond affection it was my joy to give you, not only the gospel of God, but my very life also, because you had become dear to me.

For you have the memory, my brothers, of our trouble and care; how, working night and day, so that we might not be a trouble to any of you, we gave you the good news of God.

You are witnesses??nd so is God??ow pure and just and blameless was my behavior among you believers.

For this reason also I am giving continual thanks to God, because when you heard from me the spoken word of God, you received it not as the word of men, but as the word of God (which in truth it is), who himself is effectually at work in you believe.

For you, my brothers, took as your examples the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; because you underwent the same things from your countrymen as they did from the Jews;

forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always: but the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

But we, my brothers, being away from you for a short time, in body but not in heart, had all the more desire to see your face;

Because we wish to come to you, I Paul indeed both once and twice; and Satan hindered me.

For what is my hope, or joy? What is the victor's wreath in which I exult? What but your own selves in the presence of our Lord Jesus, at his coming!

For you are my pride and my delight.

So, unable to bear it any longer, I made up my mind to be left behind at Athens all alone;

and I sent my brother Timothy, a servant of God in preaching the good news of the Christ, to strengthen you in your faith

For this cause, I also, no longer concealing my anxiety, sent, that I might get to know your faith, lest by any means he that tempteth, should have tempted you, and, in vain, should have been our toil.

But when Timotheus reached me a moment ago, on his return from you, bringing me the good news of your faith and love and of how you always remember me kindly, longing to see me as I long to see you,

then, my brothers, we were comforted over you, through your faith, even in all our affliction and needs;

because now we live, if ye may stand fast in the Lord;

How can I render thanks enough to God for you, for all the joy you make me feel in the presence of our God?

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

Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way unto you:

But you, may the Lord make to exceed and abound in love toward one another, and toward all, even as we also towards you,

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.

As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,

For the purpose of God for you is this: that you may be holy, and may keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh;

So that every one of you may keep his body holy and in honour;

And that no man may make attempts to get the better of his brother in business: for the Lord is the judge in all these things, as we said to you before and gave witness.

Because it is God's purpose that our way of life may be not unclean but holy.

he therefore that violates these precepts, does not despise man, but God, who has endued me with his holy spirit.

And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of my writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another,

And, truly, you are lovers of all the brothers in Macedonia; but it is our desire that your love may be increased still more;

And that you may take pride in being quiet and doing your business, working with your hands as we gave you orders;

That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope,

for this to you we say in the word of the Lord, that we who are living -- who do remain over to the presence of the Lord -- may not precede those asleep,

And concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need of my writing to you,

When they may say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon her that is with child; and they shall in no wise escape.

and ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day may catch you as a thief;

so, then, we may not sleep as also the others, but watch and be sober,

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

But we make this request to you, my brothers: give attention to those who are working among you, who are over you in the Lord to keep order among you;

see no one evil for evil may render to any one, but always that which is good pursue ye, both to one another and to all;

in every situation [no matter what the circumstances] be thankful and continually give thanks to God; for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus.

Abstain from every form of evil [withdraw and keep away from it].

And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved entire, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

He who calls you is faithful; he will fulfil my prayer.

Brothers, pray for me.

I conjure you by the Lord, that this epistle may be read to all our christian brethren.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

We are bound to thank God always for you, my brothers, as it is right, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each one of you abounds toward one another;

Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:

and give to you, who are now troubled, rest, along with me at the unveiling "apocalypse" of the Lord Jesus from heaven, with his mighty angels,

when He may come to be glorified in his saints, and to be wondered at in all those believing -- because our testimony was believed among you -- in that day;

To which end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfil every desire of goodness and every work of faith, with power;

That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now as to the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, and our meeting with him, it is our desire, my brothers,

That you may not be moved in mind or troubled by a spirit, or by a word, or by a letter as from us, with the suggestion that the day of the Lord is even now come;

let not any one deceive you in any manner, because -- if the falling away may not come first, and the man of sin be revealed -- the son of the destruction,

And now ye know that which restraineth, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season.

for the secret of the lawlessness doth already work, only he who is keeping down now will hinder -- till he may be out of the way,

And for this reason God sends them a misleading influence that they may believe the lie;

that they may be judged -- all who did not believe the truth, but were well pleased in the unrighteousness.

As for you, my brethren, the favourites of the Lord, we are oblig'd to render perpetual thanks to God, for having chosen you from the beginning, in purifying you by his spirit, upon your believing the gospel.

It was to this end that He called you through our gospel [the good news of Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection], so that you may obtain and share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore, my brothers, stand fast and hold the teachings which you have been taught, whether by word or by our letter.

and may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who did love us, and did give comfort age-during, and good hope in grace,

Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you:

And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith.

May the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the steadfastness and patience of Christ.

I summon you, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to shun any brother who leads an idle and disorderly life, which is not according to the rule you received from me.

For you know yourselves what you must do to follow my example, for I was not idle when I was with you;

I did not eat my food as a gift from any man, but in toil and travail, night and day, I worked, so that I might not be a burden to any of you.

not that we do not have the right, but so that we may give ourselves [as] an example to you, so that [you] may imitate us.

and such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness working, their own bread they may eat;

and ye, brethren, may ye not be weary doing well,

And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.

and may the Lord of the peace Himself give to you the peace always in every way; the Lord is with you all!

The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand, which is the token in every epistle: so I write.

This is my handwriting. May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.

Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.

As I urged you when I was on my way to Macedonia, stay on at Ephesus so that you may instruct certain individuals not to teach any different doctrines,

and we have known that the law is good, if any one may use it lawfully;

According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;

who before was a blasphemer and persecutor, and an insolent overbearing man: but mercy was shewn me because I did it ignorantly, in unbelief.

The grace of our Lord [His amazing, unmerited favor and blessing] flowed out in superabundance [for me, together] with the faith and love which are [realized] in Christ Jesus.

It is a true saying, in which all may put their faith, that Christ Jesus came into the world to give salvation to sinners, of whom I am the chief:

Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.

Now, may there be honor and praise forever and ever to the eternal King, the immortal, invisible, only God. May it be so.