for our preaching of the good news did not come to you as mere words but with power and the holy Spirit and full conviction??ou know the kind of life we lived among you for your good.

For we resolved to come to see you??, Paul, did so again and again??ut Satan held us back.

for when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we were going to have trouble, and it came true, as you know.

But now that Timothy has just come back to me from you, and brought me good news of your faith and love, and told me how kindly you think of me and that you long to see me just as much as I long to see you,

For the Lord himself, at the summons, when the archangel calls and God's trumpet sounds, will come down from heaven, and first those who died in union with Christ will rise;

for you yourselves know perfectly well that the Day of the Lord is to come like a thief in the night.