Paul, and Sylvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of Thessalonians in God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: grace to you, and peace.

We give thanks to God at all times for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;

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

knowing, brethren beloved by God, your election;

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

for they themselves report, concerning us, what manner of entrance we had to you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God,

but, having suffered before, and having been shamefully treated, as ye know, in Philippi, we grew bold in our God to speak to you the Gospel of God in much conflict.

but even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, Who proveth our hearts.

For neither, at any time, did we use a word of flattery, as ye know, nor a semblance of covetousness, God is witness;

so, being affectionately desirous of you, we were well pleased 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; working 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 God, how piously and righteously and unblamably we behaved toward you who believe;

that ye should walk worthily of God, Who is calling you into His own Kingdom and glory.

And, for this reason, we also give thanks to God without ceasing, that, having received the word of God which ye heard from us, ye received it, not as the word of men, but, as it truly is, the word of God, which also is working in you who believe.

For ye, brethren, became imitators of the assemblies of God, that are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; because ye suffered the same things from your own countrymen, as they also did from the Jews;

who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and pleased not God, and are contrary to all men;

and sent Timothy, our brother and minister of God in the Gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to exhort you concerning your faith;

But, Timothy having just now come to us from you, and having brought us good tidings of your faith and love, and that ye have good remembrance of us at all times, longing to see us, as we also to see you??7 for this reason, brethren, we were comforted over you, in all our tribulation and distress, through your faith;

For what thanksgiving can we render again to God concerning you for all the joy wherewith we rejoice on your account before our God;

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

to the end that He may establish your hearts unblamable in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints.

Finally, then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received from us how ye ought to walk, and to please God??ven as ye also are walking??hat ye abound more and more;

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

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

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

Therefore, indeed, he that rejects, rejects not man, but God, Who giveth His Holy Spirit to you.

But concerning brotherly love, ye have no need that one write to you; for ye yourselves are taught by God to love one another;

and to make it your aim to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we charged you;

for, if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also those who fell asleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.

because the Lord Himself will descend from Heaven, with a shout, with a voice of an archangel, and with a trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first;

because God did not appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

See that no one render to any one evil for evil; but always pursue that which is good, toward one another, and toward all.

In everything give thanks; for this is God's will in Christ Jesus respecting you.

but prove all things, hold fast that which is good.

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