And you took us and the Lord as your example, after the word had come to you in much trouble, with joy in the Holy Spirit;

Waiting for his Son from heaven, who came back from the dead, even Jesus, our Saviour from the wrath to come.

For our witness does not come from error or from an unclean heart or from deceit:

Who, to make the measure of their sins complete, kept us from giving the word of salvation to the Gentiles: but the wrath of God is about to come on them in the fullest degree.

For which reason we made attempts to come to you, even I, Paul, once and again; but Satan kept us from coming.

For this reason, when I was no longer able to keep quiet, I sent to get news of your faith, fearing that you might be tested by the Evil One and that our work might come to nothing.

But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has given us good news of your faith and love, and that you have happy memories of us, desiring greatly to see us, even as we do to see you;

Now may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus make a way for us to come to you;

For if we have faith that Jesus underwent death and came back again, even so those who are sleeping will come again with him by God's power.

Because the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a word of authority, with the voice of the chief angel, with the sound of a horn: and the dead in Christ will come to life first;

For you yourselves have the knowledge that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.