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

For you, brothers, became followers of the churches of God in Christ Jesus which were in Judea, for you also suffered the same things from your countrymen, which they did from the Jews

who also killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and persecuted us, and who please not God and are hostile to all men,

for indeed when we came to you, we told you before that we were about to suffer affliction, as it also happened, and you know.

But now Timothy having come to us from you and told us the good news of your faith and love, and that you have a good remembrance of us always, desiring to see us, as we also you,

and the Lord cause you to be full and abound with love one to another and to all men, as we also to you,

that he should not go beyond and defraud his brother in the matter, because the Lord is a punisher of all these, as we also told you before and fully testified.

He therefore that despises, despises not man, but God, who also gives us his Holy Spirit.

for you also do the same to all the brothers in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, to abound still more,

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also will God bring with him those that have fallen asleep on account of Jesus.

Wherefore exhort one another, and edify one another, as you also do.

Faithful is he that calls you, who will also perform.