Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians, who believe in God the father, and in our Lord Jesus Christ. grace and peace be with you from God our father, and from Jesus Christ our Lord.

We always mention you in our prayers, and give thanks to God for you all:

never forgetting the effects of your faith, your charitable offices, and the constancy of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ; of which God is our witness.

how successful our arrival was among you, and how you renounc'd your idols to serve the living and true God,

on the contrary, notwithstanding the outrages, you know we suffer'd at Philippi, we had still the resolution, by the divine assistance, to preach the gospel of God to you without reserve against all opposition.

we preach the gospel just as God thought fit to intrust it with us, not being studious to please men, but God, who approves our sincerity.

our address to you was without any flattery, as you yourselves can witness, and God is witness that we had no avarice to disguise.

for you remember, my brethren, our labour and toil: how we worked day and night, that in preaching the gospel of God, we might not be chargeable to any of you.

you are witnesses, and God is so too, how holy, how just and irreproachable our behaviour was to you, who believe.

conjuring you to live suitably to the favour of God, who has called you to his kingdom and glory.

nor do we fail of giving thanks to God continually, that, when you received the word of God, which we preach, you did not receive it as the doctrine of men, but as a doctrine that appears to be truly divine, by the influences it displays in you, who believe.

a minister of God, and our collegue in preaching the gospel of Christ, that by establishing you in the faith, and by his exhortations,

how can I be sufficiently thankful to God upon your account, for all the joy, which by your means we have been affected with,

now may God our father, and our Lord Jesus Christ remove all the obstructions of our journey to you.

that by the sanctity of your affections, you may stand unreprov'd in the presence of God our father, when our Lord Jesus Christ shall come with all his holy angels.

and such is the will of God, that you should be holy, and avoid licentiousness;

person unsullied by the vices of the Gentiles, who know not God:

for God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness:

he therefore that violates these precepts, does not despise man, but God, who has endued me with his holy spirit.

As to brotherly love, I have no occasion to write about it, God himself having instructed you to love one another.

to study your own quiet, to mind your own affairs, and follow some handicraft trade, as we recommended it to you:

for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we must believe that God by Jesus will raise the dead, and assemble them with him.

for one thing I have in charge to tell you from the Lord, that we, who shall be found still alive at the coming of the Lord, shall not get the advance of those that are dead:

for the Lord himself will descend from heaven, and by the voice of the archangel, with the trumpet of God, resound the summons: they who died christians shall rise first:

for God did not design to make us the objects of his displeasure, but to effect our felicity by the Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us,

Don't allow any one to return evil for evil, but strive to do all the good you can to one another, and to all the world.

be thankful to God for every thing, for so christians are oblig'd to be.

Now may the God of peace make you intirely holy: may every part of you, your spirit, soul, and body be preserved irreprovable at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.