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

how that our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance; even as ye know what manner of men we showed ourselves toward you for your sake.

For from you hath sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith to God-ward is gone forth; so that we need not to speak anything.

For they themselves report concerning us what manner of entering in we had unto you; and how ye turned unto God from idols, to serve a living and true God,

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

For yourselves, brethren, know our entering in unto you, that it hath not been found vain:

For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:

For neither at any time were we found using words of flattery, as ye know, nor a cloak of covetousness, God is witness;

For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when ye received from us the word of the message, even the word of God, ye accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also worketh 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 of your own countrymen, even as they did of the Jews;

But we, brethren, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence not in heart, endeavored the more exceedingly to see your face with great desire:

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glorying? Are not even ye, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

For ye are our glory and our joy.

that no man be moved by these afflictions; for yourselves know that hereunto we are appointed.

For verily, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction; even as it came to pass, and ye know.

For this cause I also, when I could no longer forbear, sent that I might know your faith, lest by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor should be in vain.

for this cause, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith:

for now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.

For what thanksgiving can we render again unto God for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;

For ye know what charge we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

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

For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

But concerning love of the brethren ye have no need that one write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another;

for indeed ye do it toward all the brethren that are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, that ye abound more and more;

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also that are fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we that are alive, that are left unto the coming of the Lord, shall in no wise precede them that are fallen asleep.

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first;

For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

for ye are all sons of light, and sons of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness;

For they that sleep sleep in the night: and they that are drunken are drunken in the night.

But let us, since we are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

For God appointed us not into wrath, but unto the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

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

and to esteem them exceeding highly in love for their work's sake. Be at peace among yourselves.

See that none render unto any one evil for evil; but always follow after that which is good, one toward another, and toward all.

in everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus to you-ward.

Brethren, pray for us.