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.

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

forbidding us to speak to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always; but the wrath has come upon them to the uttermost.

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.

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