Ye are witnesses, and God, how piously and righteously and unblamably we behaved toward you who believe;

For ye, brethren, became imitators of the assemblies of God, that are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; because ye suffered the same things from your own countrymen, as they also did from the Jews;

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

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?

For ye are our glory and joy.

that no one should be shaken in these tribulations; for ye yourselves know that for this we are appointed.

For even when we were with you, we told you beforehand, "We are about to suffer tribulation"; even as also it came to pass, and ye know.

Finally, then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received from us how ye ought to walk, and to please God??ven as ye also are walking??hat ye abound more and more;

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

and, in fact, ye do it to all the brethren who are in all Macedonia; but we exhort you, brethren, to abound yet more;

after that we, the living who are left over, will be caught up together with them in clouds, into the air, to meet the Lord; and so shall we always be with the Lord.

When they are saying, "Peace and safety," then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall in nowise escape.

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.

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

And we beseech you, brethren, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;