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 with power, and with the Holy Ghost, and with much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you, for your sake.

For from you the word of the Lord sounded forth, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith toward God went abroad in every place also, so that we need not speak any thing.

For they themselves declare concerning us, what manner of entrance to you we had, and how ye turned from idols to God,

to serve the living and true God, And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he hath raised from the dead, even Jesus, who delivereth us from the wrath to come.

For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance to you, that it was not in vain: But even after we had suffered before,

For our exhortation is not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile.

For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloak of covetousness: God is witness:

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

For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, even because when ye received the word of God from us, ye received it, not as the word of men, but (as it is in truth) the word of God, who likewise effectually worketh in you that believe.

For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God in Christ Jesus, which are in Judea; for ye also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, as they likewise from the Jews:

But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time, in presence, not in heart, laboured with great desire the more abundantly to see your face.

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

For ye are our glory and joy.

That no one might be moved by these afflictions; for ye know that we are appointed hereto.

For when we were with you we told you before, we should be afflicted; as it came to pass, and ye know.

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

For what thanks can we render to God for you, for all the joy wherewith we rejoice for your sake before our God?

For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

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

For God hath not called us to uncleanness, but to holiness.

Touching brotherly love, we need not write to you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

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

For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left to the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them that are asleep.

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

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

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

But let us who are of the day keep awake, having put on the breast-plate of faith and love, and for an helmet the hope of salvation.

For God hath not appointed us to wrath,

but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, Who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we may live together with him.

and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you, And to esteem them very highly in love for their works sake, and be at peace among yourselves.

See that none render to any man evil for evil, but ever follow that which is good, both to one another and to all men.

for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

Brethren, pray for us.