because the good-news from us happened to you not in word only, but also in power, and in Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, as ye know what kind of men we became among you, because of you.

For the word of the Lord has sounded forth from you, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone forth, so that we have no need to say anything.

For ye yourselves know, brothers, our entrance with you, that it has not become empty.

For our exhortation is not from error, nor from uncleanness, nor in deception,

but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good-news, thus we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who proves our hearts.

Thus being desirous of you, we were pleased to impart to you, not only the good-news of God, but also our own souls, because ye have become beloved to us.

For ye remember, brothers, our labor and the hardship. For, laboring night and day in order not to burden any of you, we preached to you the good-news of God.

And because of this we thank God without ceasing, because, having received the word of God heard from us, ye received not the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God, which also is at work in you who believe.

The men who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and who persecuted us, and are not pleasing to God, and are contrary to all men.

But we, brothers, who were orphaned from you for the time of an hour, in presence not in heart, hastened more earnestly to see your face, with much desire.

For what is our hope or joy or crown of boast? Or is it not even ye, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

praying night and day above extraordinary in order to see your face and to mend the deficiencies of your faith?

not in passion of lust, as also the Gentiles who have not known God,

not to transgress and to cheat his brother in the affair, because the Lord is vengeful about all these things, as also we forewarned you and solemnly testified.

For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.

Therefore he who disregards, disregards not man, but God, who also gave his Holy Spirit to you.

But about brotherly love ye have no need to write to you, for ye yourselves are taught by God in order to love each other.

But we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about those who are asleep, so that ye may not grieve, as also the others who have no hope.

For this we say to you in the word of Lord, that we who are alive, who remain for the coming of the Lord, will no, not precede those who became asleep.

But about the times and the seasons, brothers, ye have no need to be written to you.

For ye yourselves know accurately that the day of Lord so comes as a thief in the night.

For when they say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction approaches them, as the woman having birth pangs in her womb, and they will, no, not escape.

But ye, brothers, are not in darkness, so that the day would seize you as a thief.

Ye are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.

So then let us not sleep, as also the others, but let us watch and be sober.

For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who are intoxicated get drunk at night.

Because God appointed us not for wrath, but for an acquired possession of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us.

See that not any man repays evil for evil to any man, but always pursue the good, both for each other and for all.

Do not quench the Spirit.

Do not disdain prophecies,