Paul and Silvanus and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians, in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace to you, and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

We give thanks to God for you always, 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, in the sight of God and our Father,

knowing, beloved brothers, your election of God.

For from you the Word of the Lord sounded out, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out, so that we do not need to speak anything.

For they themselves witness what kind of entrance we had to you, even how you turned from idols to God in order to serve the living and true God,

But also suffering before, being insulted in Philippi, as you know, we were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God in much agony.

but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who tries our hearts.

For neither at any time did we use flattering words, as you know, nor with pretense of covetousness; God is witness.

So affectionately longing for you, we were willing to have imparted to you, not only the gospel of God, but also our own souls, because you have become beloved to us.

For, brothers, you remember our labor and toil. For laboring night and day in order not to put a burden on any one of you, we preached the gospel of God to you.

You and God are witnesses how holily and justly and blamelessly we were to you who believe,

that you should walk worthy of God, who has called you to His kingdom and glory.

And for this cause we thank God without ceasing, that when you received the Word of hearing, of God, you welcomed it as the Word of God, not as a word of men, but as it is, truly the Word of God, which also effectually works in you who believe.

For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus. For you also have suffered these things by your own countrymen, even as they also by the Jews;

who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, also driving us out and they do not please God and being contrary to all men,

And we sent Timothy, our brother and minister of God, and our fellow laborer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you and to comfort you concerning your faith,

But now when Timothy came from you to us and brought us good news of your faith and love, and that you have good remembrance of us always, desiring to see us (as we also you),

For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God,

And may God Himself and our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ direct our way to you.

in order to establish your hearts blameless in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.

For the rest, then, my brothers, we beseech you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as you have received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, so you would abound more and more.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification, for you to abstain from fornication,

(not in the passion of lust, even as the nations who do not know God),

For God has not called us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.

Therefore he who despises does not despise man, but God, who also has given us His Holy Spirit.

But regarding brotherly love, you do not need that I write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.

and that you try earnestly to be quiet and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will also bring with Him all those who have fallen asleep through Jesus.

For the Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ shall rise first.

For God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

See that none gives evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue the good, both towards one another and towards all.

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

Prove all things, hold fast to the good.

And may the God of peace Himself sanctify you, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blamelessly at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.