because the gospel preached by us came not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance; as ye well know what sort of persons we became among you for your sake.

For from you the word of the Lord hath sounded forth not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith toward God hath become known; so that we need not say anything [about you].

For ye yourselves know, brethren, that our coming among you hath not been in vain;

For our teaching is not from error, nor from impurity, nor in guile;

but as we have been regarded by God as worthy to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who trieth our hearts.

so having a strong affection for you, we were willing to impart to you, not only the gospel of God, but also our own souls, because ye became dear to us.

For ye remember, brethren, our labor and toil, how laboring night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.

And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing, 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 is powerfully working in you that believe.

who both killed the Lord Jesus, and the prophets, and drove us out, and please not God, and set themselves against all men,

But we, brethren, having been bereaved of you for a short time, separated in body, not in heart, used the greater endeavors with much earnestness to see your face.

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glorying? Is it not even ye, in the presence of our Lord Jesus at his coming?

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

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

For God did not call us to live in uncleanness, but in purity.

He therefore that rejecteth, rejecteth not man, but God, who also gave to you his Holy Spirit.

But concerning brotherly love there is no need of writing to you; for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another;

that ye may walk becomingly toward those without, and may have need of nothing.

But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are sleeping, that ye may not sorrow, as others do, who have no hope.

For this we say to you in the word of the Lord, that we who are living, we who are left till the coming of the Lord, shall not anticipate those who have fallen asleep.

But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, there is no need of writing to you;

for ye yourselves know full well, that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

When they are saying, Peace and safety; then doth sudden destruction come upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

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

for ye all are sons of light, and sons of the day; we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

Let us not sleep, then, as others, but let us watch and be sober.

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

for God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Quench not the Spirit;

despise not prophesyings,