Most Popular Bible Verses in 1 Thessalonians

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For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of impurity, nor in guile:

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For this also we thank God continually, that when ye received the word of God, which ye heard from us, ye received it not as the word of men, but (as it is in truth) the word of God, which also worketh effectually in you that believe.

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

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That no one over-reach, or wrong his brother in any thing: because the Lord is an avenger of all such crimes, as we also told you before, and testified to you.

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But of the times and seasons, brethren, ye have no need of my writing to you:

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

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As to what remains therefore, my brethren, we intreat and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received instructions from us, how ye ought to walk and to please God, ye would abound therein more and more.

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For this we tell you in the word of the Lord, that we who shall be living and remain to the coming of the Lord, shall not be before those that are asleep.

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For neither at any time used we flattering speech, as ye know, nor covetous pretence, God is witness:

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

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But now Timothy being come back to us from you, and having brought us good tidings concerning your faith and love, and that ye have always a good remembrance of us, greatly desiring to see us, as we indeed do to see you;

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nor sought we glory of men, neither of you, nor of others: though we might have expected maintenance, as the apostles of Christ.

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for now we are revived, since you are stedfast in the Lord.

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by this we were comforted in you, my brethren, under all our affliction and distress, because of your faith:

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

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For what thanks can we render to God concerning you, for all the joy wherewith we rejoice on your account before our God,

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And may God himself even our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ direct our way to you:

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

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as we gave you in charge, that ye may walk decently toward those that are without, and may have need of no one's assistance.

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

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who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; who are displeasing to God, and contrary to all men:

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forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, thus going on to fill up their sins perpetually: but wrath is coming upon them to extremity.

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Wherefore being able to contain no longer, we were content to be left alone at Athens,

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But ye, my brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should seize you as a thief:

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But though we had suffered before and been injuriously treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we spake boldly in the name of our God to declare unto you the gospel of God with much conflict.

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But we, brethren, being separated from you for a season, in person not in heart, endeavoured the more earnestly to see you again with much desire.

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

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

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and sent Timothy our brother, and a minister of God, and our fellow-labourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish and exhort you concerning your faith;

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

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

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For they themselves declare concerning us what kind of entrance we had among you, and how ye turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God;

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For ye yourselves, brethren, know our entrance among you, that it was not in vain.

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For the word of the Lord sounded forth from you, not only in Macedonia and Achaia; but also in every place your faith towards God is spread abroad, so that we have no need to say any thing of it.