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

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, and the voice of the archangel, and trump of God. And the dead in Christ shall arise first:

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

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

The very God of peace sanctify you throughout. And I pray God that your whole spirit, soul, and body, be kept faultless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

Pray continually.

Examine all things, and keep that which is good.

Rejoice ever.

For this is the will of God, even that ye should be holy, and that ye should abstain from fornication,

because we know brethren beloved of God, how that ye are elect.

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.

In all things give thanks. For this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

For verily when I was with you, I told you before that we should suffer tribulation even as it came to pass, and as ye know.

that no man go too far and defraud his brother in bargaining, because the Lord is avenger of all such things: as we told you before time, and testified unto you.

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

And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord: and received the word in much affliction, with joy of the holy ghost:

Wherefore, comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as ye do.

But let us which are of the day be sober, armed with the breast plate of faith and love, and with hope of salvation as a helmet.

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

For if we believe that Jesus died, and rose again: even so them also which sleep by Jesus, will God bring again with him.

so that ye were an example to all that believe in Macedonia, and Achaia.

Furthermore, we beseech you brethren, and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that ye increase more and more, even as ye have received of us, how ye ought to walk and to please God.

Quench not the spirit,

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.

then shall we which live and remain, be caught up with them also in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so shall we ever be with the Lord.

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.

For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent that I might have knowledge of your faith, lest haply the tempter had tempted you, and that our labour had been bestowed in vain.

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

which died for us: that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

Neither was our conversation at any time with flattering words - as ye well know - neither in cloaked covetousness, God is record:

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

Yea, and that thing verily ye do unto all the brethren, which are throughout all Macedonia. We beseech you brethren that ye increase, more and more,

But now lately when Timothy came from you unto us and declared to us your faith, and your love, and how that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring to see us, as we desire to see you.

neither sought we praise of men, neither of you, nor yet of any other, when we might have been chargeable, as the apostles of Christ.

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.

and give you exhortation, that ye have them the more in love: For their work's sake, and be at peace with them.

See that none recompense evil for evil unto any man: but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.

For now are we alive if ye stand steadfast in the Lord.

But were tender among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children,

Therefore, brethren, had we consolation in you, in all our adversity, and necessity through your faith.

Ye are witnesses, and so is God, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:

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 what thanks can we recompense to God again for you, over all the joy that we joy for your sakes before our God,

God himself, our father, and our Lord Jesus Christ guide our journey unto you:

that ye would walk worthy of God, which hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.

as ye know how that we exhorted and comforted, and besought every one of you, as a father his children,

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

despise not prophesying.

that ye may behave yourselves honestly toward them that are without and that nothing be lacking unto you.

For ye brethren became followers of the congregations of God which in Jewry are in Christ Jesus: for ye have suffered like things of your kinsmen, as we ourselves have suffered of the Jews,

to make your hearts that they might be stable and unblamable in holiness before God our father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, with all his saints.

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:

and forbid us to preach unto the gentiles, that they might be saved, to fulfill their sins always: For the wrath of God is come on them, even to the utmost.

Wherefore, since we could no longer forbear, it pleased us to remain at Athens alone,

Faithful is he, which called you: which will also do it.

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

and therefore we would have come unto you, I Paul once and again: but Satan withstood us.

Where-fore comfort yourselves one another with these words.

but even after that we had suffered before and were shamefully entreated at Philippi - as ye well know - then were we bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God, with much striving.

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,

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

Ye remember what commandments we gave you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Brethren, pray for us.

I charge you in the Lord, that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren.

that every one of you should know how to keep his vessel in holiness and honour,

and sent Timothy our brother and minister of God, and our labour fellow in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you over your faith,

Greet all the brethren with a holy kiss.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. {The end of the First Epistle unto the Thessalonians, Sent from Athens.}

Yea, ye are our glory and joy.

that no man should be moved in these afflictions. For ye yourselves know that we are even appointed thereunto.

We beseech you brethren, that ye know them which labour among you, and have the oversight of you in the Lord,

Paul, Silvanus and Timothy. Unto the congregation of the Thessalonians, in God the father, and in the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace be with you, and peace from God our father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

We desire you brethren warn them that are unruly, comfort the feeble minded, forbear the weak, have continual patience toward all men.

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

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

and for to look for his son from heaven, whom he raised from death: I mean Jesus, which delivereth us from wrath to come.

and that ye study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you:

and the Lord increase you, and make you flow over in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you,

for they themselves show of you what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from images for to serve the living and true God,

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

Abstain from all suspicious things.

We give God thanks always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers

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.

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?

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:

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

without ceasing, and call to remembrance your work in the faith, and labour in love and perseverance in the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God our father: