Now we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others who have no hope.

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first.

For our exhortation is not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile.

Therefore let us not sleep as the others, but let us awake and keep awake.

And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly: and may the whole of you, the spirit and the soul and the body, be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Not in passionate desire, as the Gentiles who know not God.

Pray without ceasing: In every thing give thanks;

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

Rejoice evermore:

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;

) Knowing, beloved brethren, your election of God.

For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, even because when ye received the word of God from us, ye received it, not as the word of men, but (as it is in truth) the word of God, who likewise effectually worketh in you that believe.

for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

For when we were with you we told you before, we should be afflicted; as it came to pass, and ye know.

That none circumvent or defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger of all these things, as we have also told you before and testified.

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

And ye became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost.

Wherefore comfort one another and edify one another, as also ye do.

But let us who are of the day keep awake, having put on the breast-plate of faith and love, and for an helmet the hope of salvation.

But of the times and seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write to you.

For if we believe, that Jesus died and rose again, so will God bring with him those also that sleep in Christ.

So that ye became examples to all that believed in Macedonia and Achaia.

It remaineth then, brethren, that we beseech and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, that ye abound therein more and more.

Quench not the Spirit.

For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left to the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them that are asleep.

Then we who are alive, who are left, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we be ever with the Lord.

But as we have been approved of God to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who trieth our hearts.

Therefore when I could bear no longer, I sent to know your faith, left by any means the tempter should have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.

For God hath not called us to uncleanness, but to holiness.

but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, Who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we may live together with him.

For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloak of covetousness: God is witness:

He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man but God; who hath also given you his Holy Spirit.

And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren that are in all Macedonia; but we exhort you, brethren, that ye increase more and more,

But now when Timotheus was come to us from you, and had brought us the good tidings of your faith and love, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, longing to see us, as we also to see you:

Nor sought we glory of men, neither from you, nor from others, when we might have been burdensome, as the Apostles of Christ.

So, loving you tenderly, we were ready to impart to you not only the gospel of God, but our own souls also, because ye were dear to us.

and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you, And to esteem them very highly in love for their works sake, and be at peace among yourselves.

See that none render to any man evil for evil, but ever follow that which is good, both to one another and to all men.

For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.

But we were gentle in the midst of you, even as a nurse cherisheth her own children.

Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you, in, all our affliction and distress by your faith.

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

For ye remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.

For what thanks can we render to God for you, for all the joy wherewith we rejoice for your sake before our God?

Now our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus direct our way unto you.

as a father his own children, And charged you to walk worthy of God, who hath called you to his kingdom and glory.

As ye know how we exhorted and comforted every one of you,

Night and day praying exceedingly, that we may see your face, and perfect that which is wanting in your faith.

Despise not prophesyings.

That ye may walk decently toward them that are without, and may want nothing.

For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God in Christ Jesus, which are in Judea; for ye also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, as they likewise from the Jews:

That he may establish your hearts unblameable in holiness (before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ) with all his saints.

Who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us: and they please not God, and are contrary to all men.

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

Therefore when we could bear no longer, we thought good to be left at Athens alone,

Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.

But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

Wherefore we would have come to you (even I Paul) once and again, but Satan hindered us.

Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

and had been shamefully intreated at Philippi, as ye know, we were bold thro' our God to speak to you the gospel of God with much contention.

But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time, in presence, not in heart, laboured with great desire the more abundantly to see your face.

Ye are all children of the light and children of the day: we are not children of the night, nor of darkness.

For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

Brethren, pray for us.

I charge you by the Lord, that this epistle be read to all the brethren.

That every one of you know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

And sent Timotheus our brother and minister of God and our fellow-worker in the gospel of Christ, to establish you and to comfort you concerning your faith,

Salute all the brethren with an holy kiss.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.

For ye are our glory and joy.

That no one might be moved by these afflictions; for ye know that we are appointed hereto.

Now we beseech you, brethren, to know them that labour among you,

Paul and Silvanus and Timotheus to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, Grace be unto you and Peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now we exhort you, brethren, warn the disorderly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the weak, be long suffering toward all men.

For ye yourselves know perfectly, that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

For God hath not appointed us to wrath,

to serve the living and true God, And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he hath raised from the dead, even Jesus, who delivereth us from the wrath to come.

And that ye study to be quiet and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, as we commanded you;

And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love towards one another and towards all men, as we also do towards you,

For they themselves declare concerning us, what manner of entrance to you we had, and how ye turned from idols to God,

For our gospel came not to you in word only, but also with power, and with the Holy Ghost, and with much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you, for your sake.

For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance to you, that it was not in vain: But even after we had suffered before,

Abstain from all appearance of evil.

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

When they say, peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape.

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not ye also before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

For from you the word of the Lord sounded forth, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith toward God went abroad in every place also, so that we need not speak any thing.

Touching brotherly love, we need not write to you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

Remembring without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of our God and Father: