for the word of the Lord sounded out from you, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith which is towards God has gone abroad, so that we have no need to say anything;

for they themselves relate concerning us what entering in we had to you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God,

and to await his Son from the heavens, whom he raised from among the dead, Jesus, our deliverer from the coming wrath.

nor seeking glory from men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have been a charge as Christ's apostles;

But Timotheus having just come to us from you, and brought to us the glad tidings of your faith and love, and that ye have always good remembrance of us, desiring much to see us, even as we also you;

because now we live if ye stand firm in the Lord.

For the rest, then, brethren, we beg you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, even as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and please God, even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more.

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

for the Lord himself, with an assembling shout, with archangel's voice and with trump of God, shall descend from heaven; and the dead in Christ shall rise first;

hold aloof from every form of wickedness.