For they themselves are reporting concerning us what kind of reception we had among you, and how ye turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God,

Ye are witnesses, and so is God, how holily, and righteously, and unblamably we conducted ourselves toward you that believe;

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

For ye are our glory and joy.

so that no one should be shaken by these afflictions; for yourselves know that to this we are appointed;

for even when we were with you, we told you before that we are to suffer affliction, just as it came to pass, and ye know.

Furthermore then, brethren, we beseech you, and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received from us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye are walking, ye would abound still more;

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

for indeed ye do it toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, to abound in love still more;

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.

then we who are living, we who are left, shall be caught up together with them in clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we be ever with the Lord.

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.

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

but let us, as we are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation;

Wherefore, encourage one another, and edify one another, as indeed ye are doing.