for we can never for a moment before our God forget your energizing faith, your toiling love, and your enduring hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

You can testify, and God too, with what pure, upright, and irreproachable motives I dealt with you who believed;

for they [even] try to prevent us from speaking to the Gentiles, so that they can be saved. [In doing this] they are always piling up one sin on another. But the wrath [of God] has come upon them at last [or, "completely"].

for what can be our hope, or joy, what can crown our pretensions, unless it be you, when we shall appear before the Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?

for now I can really live, since you are standing firm in the Lord.

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

Night and day we pray very earnestly that we will be able to see you in person, so we can provide what is lacking in your faith.

For we can assure you, on the Lord's own authority, that those of us who will still be living when the Lord comes will have no advantage over those who have fallen asleep.

When they may say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes on them, as travail upon a woman in gestation; and they can not escape.

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.

but continue to prove all things until you can approve them, and then hold on to what is good.

He who calls you can be relied on, and he will do this.