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

For our gospel came not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in full assurance, as you know what sort of persons we were among you for your sakes.

For from you, the word of the Lord sounded out, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also your faith in God has gone abroad in every place, so that we have no need to speak any thing.

For they themselves declare concerning us what kind of entrance we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God,

and to wait for his Son from heaven, even Jesus, whom he raised from the dead, and who delivers us from the coming wrath.

For you yourselves know, brethren, our entrance among you, that it was not in vain.

For our exhortation arose not from deception, nor from uncleanness, nor was it with guile;

For neither nattering words did we at any time use, as you know, nor a pretext for covetousness; God is witness:

so, having a strong affection for you, we were well pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God, but our own lives also, because you had become dear to us.

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

For this reason, also, we thank God without ceasing; be cause, when you received the word of God, as preached by us, you embraced it, not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually works in you that believe.

For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God in Judea which are in Christ Jesus; for you, also, have suffered the same things from your own countrymen, that they have suffered from the Jews,

But we, brethren, having been taken from you for a short time, in person, not in heart, did, with great desire, endeavor the more earnestly to see your face.

For this reason, we intended to go to you, (I Paul) both once and again, but Satan hindered us.

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even you, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? -You indeed are our glory and

that no one be moved by these afflictions; for you yourselves know that we are appointed to this:

for even when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we were about to be afflicted, as it also came to pass, and as you know.

For this reason, when I could no longer contain my self, I sent to know your faith, lest by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor should be in vain.

for this reason we are comforted concerning you, brethren, in all our distress and affliction, by your faith:

for now we live, if you stand firm in the Lord.

For what thanks can we render to God for you, for the great joy with which we rejoice on your account before our God,

For you know what commandments we gave you by our Lord Jesus.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you keep yourselves from lewdness;

That no one take advantage of or injure his brother in this matter; because the Lord takes vengeance for all such things, as we also told you before, and fully testified:

for God has not called us for uncleanness, but for holiness.

But with respect to brotherly love, you have no need that I write to you: for you yourselves are taught of God to love one another;

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also should we believe that God will, through Jesus, bring with him those who sleep.

For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we, the living, who remain till the coming of the Lord, shall not precede those who are asleep

for the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall arise first;

for you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night:

for when they shall say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them, as the pains of birth upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape.

For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunken, are drunken in the night.

But let us, who are of the day, be sober, having on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation:

for God has not appointed us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we might live together with him.

Now we beseech you, brethren, to have regard for those who labor among you, and preside over you in the Lord, and admonish you,

We exhort you, brethren, admonish the unruly, comfort the faint-hearted, earnestly care for the weak-minded, be of a long-suffering disposition toward all.

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

in every thing give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

Brethren, pray for us.