But we became gentle in your midst, as a nurse may cherish her own children,

because now we live, if ye may stand fast in the Lord;

As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,

And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of my writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another,

that ye may walk becomingly unto those without, and may have lack of nothing.

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope,

for this to you we say in the word of the Lord, that we who are living -- who do remain over to the presence of the Lord -- may not precede those asleep,

And concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need of my writing to you,

for when they may say, Peace and surety, then sudden destruction doth stand by them, as the travail doth her who is with child, and they shall not escape;

and ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day may catch you as a thief;

so, then, we may not sleep as also the others, but watch and be sober,

who did die for us, that whether we wake -- whether we sleep -- together with him we may live;

see no one evil for evil may render to any one, but always that which is good pursue ye, both to one another and to all;

and the God of the peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your whole spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved unblameably in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ;