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

We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers,

remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love, and perseverance in the hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before God our Father;

since we know, brethren beloved of God, that he hath chosen you;

For from you the word of the Lord hath sounded forth not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith toward God hath become known; so that we need not say anything [about you].

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,

but after we had suffered before and had been shamefully treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God in much conflict.

but as we have been regarded by God as worthy to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who trieth our hearts.

For neither at any time did we use flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloak of covetousness, God is witness;

so having a strong affection for you, we were willing to impart to you, not only the gospel of God, but also our own souls, because ye became dear to us.

For ye remember, brethren, our labor and toil, how laboring night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.

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

that ye should walk in a manner worthy of God, who is calling you to his own kingdom and glory.

And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when ye received the word of God which ye heard from us, ye received it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also is powerfully working in 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;

who both killed the Lord Jesus, and the prophets, and drove us out, and please not God, and set themselves against all men,

and sent Timothy, our brother and a fellowlaborer with God in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to encourage you in your faith,

But when Timothy just now came to us from you, and brought us good tidings of your faith and love, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you;

For what thanks can we render to God for you, for all the joy wherewith we rejoice for your sakes before our God;

Now God himself, our Father, and our Lord Jesus direct our way to you;

in order that he may establish your hearts unblamable in holiness before God, our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his holy ones.

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;

For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;

not in the passion of lust, even as the gentiles who know not God;

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

He therefore that rejecteth, rejecteth not man, but God, who also gave to you his Holy Spirit.

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

and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, then also will God, through Jesus, bring again with him those who have fallen asleep.

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a loud summons, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first;

for God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

See that none render evil for evil to any one; but ever follow that which is good, both toward one another and toward all.

in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus in regard to you.

but prove all things; hold fast that which is good;

And may the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved whole, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.