Ye are witnesses, and God, how piously and righteously and blamelessly we have conducted ourselves with you that believe:

For ye, brethren, have become imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; for ye also have suffered the same things of your own countrymen as also they of the Jews,

who have both slain the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and have driven us out by persecution, and do not please God, and are against all men,

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of boasting? are not ye also before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

for ye are our glory and joy.

that no one might be moved by these afflictions. (For yourselves know that we are set for this;

for also, when we were with you, we told you beforehand we are about to be in tribulation, even as also it came to pass, and ye know.)

Now concerning brotherly love ye have no need that we should write to you, for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

But we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them that are fallen asleep, to the end that ye be not grieved even as also the rest who have no hope.

(For this we say to you in the word of the Lord, that we, the living, who remain to the coming of the Lord, are in no way to anticipate those who have fallen asleep;

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

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