because our Gospel came not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance; even as ye know what manner of men we became toward you, for your sake.

For from you has sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith toward God has gone forth; so that we have no need to speak anything;

For ye yourselves, brethren, know our entrance to you, that it has not become vain;

For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile;

but even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, Who proveth our hearts.

so, being affectionately desirous of you, we were well pleased 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; working night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you, we preached to you the Gospel of God.

And, for this reason, we also give thanks to God without ceasing, that, having received the word of God which ye heard from us, ye received it, not as the word of men, but, as it truly is, the word of God, which also is working in you who believe.

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

But we, brethren, having been bereft of you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, endeavored the more exceedingly to see your face, with great desire.

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glorying? Are 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 perfect the deficiencies in your faith?

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

that he go not beyond and gain an advantage over his brother in the matter; because the Lord is an avenger of all these things, as we also told you before, and solemnly testified.

For God did not call us unto uncleanness, but in sanctification.

Therefore, indeed, he that rejects, rejects not man, but God, Who giveth His Holy Spirit to you.

But concerning brotherly love, ye have no need that one write to you; for ye yourselves are taught by God to love one another;

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

But we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those falling asleep, that ye sorrow not even as the rest who have no hope;

But, concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that aught be written to you;

for ye yourselves know accurately that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief at night.

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

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

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

For those who sleep sleep at night, and those who are drunken are drunken at night.

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

Quench not the Spirit.

Despise not prophesyings;