and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.

For from you the word of the Lord has been declared, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out; so that we do not need to say anything.

For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you was not in vain,

For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.

But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.

For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

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

But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Is not it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

Therefore, when we could not stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone,

For this cause I also, when I could not stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

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

not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who do not know God;

For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.

But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

But we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you do not grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you.

For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.

But you, brothers, are not in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.

You are all children of light, and children of the day. We do not belong to the night, nor to darkness,

so then let us not sleep, as the rest do, but let us watch and be sober.

For those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Do not quench the Spirit.

Do not treat prophecies with contempt,