Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the congregation of Thessalonians in God the Father and Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and Lord Jesus Christ.

We thank God always about all of you, making recollection of you in our prayers,

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

Knowing, beloved brothers, your selection by God,

because the good-news from us happened to you not in word only, but also in power, and in Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, as ye know what kind of men we became among you, because of you.

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

For they report about us what kind of entrance we had with you, and how ye turned to God from the idols to serve a living and TRUE God,

But having suffered before and been mistreated in Philippi, as ye know, we were bold in our God to speak to you the good-news of God within much conflict.

but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good-news, thus we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who proves our hearts.

For we came neither in word of flattery (at any time as ye know) nor a pretense of greed (God is witness)

Thus being desirous of you, we were pleased to impart to you, not only the good-news of God, but also our own souls, because ye have become beloved to us.

For ye remember, brothers, our labor and the hardship. For, laboring night and day in order not to burden any of you, we preached to you the good-news of God.

Ye are witnesses, and God, how piously and justly and blamelessly we became to you who believe,

and solemnly declaring for you to walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.

And because of this we thank God without ceasing, because, having received the word of God heard from us, ye received not the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God, which also is at work in you who believe.

For ye, brothers, became imitators of the congregations of God, which are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because ye also suffered the same things by your own countrymen, just as also they by the Jews.

The men who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and who persecuted us, and are not pleasing to God, and are contrary to all men.

And we sent Timothy, our brother, and a helper of God, and our fellow workman in the good-news of the Christ, in order to establish you and to encourage you about your faith,

But now of Timothy, having come to us from you, and having proclaimed good news to us of your faith and love, and that ye always have a good recollection of us, longing to see us, just as we also you,

For what thanks can we repay God about you, for all the joy in which we rejoiced because of you before our God,

Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you.

in order to establish your hearts unblameable in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his sanctified.

Finally therefore, brothers, we ask you, and summon in Lord Jesus, that just as ye received from us how ye ought to walk and to please God, that ye may abound more.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification, for you to abstain from fornication,

not in passion of lust, as also the Gentiles who have not known God,

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

Therefore he who disregards, disregards not man, but God, who also gave his Holy Spirit to you.

But about brotherly love ye have no need to write to you, for ye yourselves are taught by God in order to love each other.

For if we believe that Jesus died and arose, so also those who became asleep through Jesus, God will bring with him.

Because the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with a voice of the arch-agent, and with a trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first,

For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who are intoxicated get drunk at night.

Because God appointed us not for wrath, but for an acquired possession of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us.

See that not any man repays evil for evil to any man, but always pursue the good, both for each other and for all.

In everything express thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

but examine all things. Hold firm the good.

And may the God of peace himself sanctify you thoroughly. And may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, blamelessly at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.