For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in great fulness of assurance; as ye know what manner of men we have been among you for your sakes.

For from you sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only into Macedonia and Achaia, but into every region also your fidelity towards God is gone out, so that we have no need to say any thing.

FOR ye yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in to you, that it was not in vain.

And our exhortation originated not from delusion, or impurity, or from guile;

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

not seeking glory from men, neither from you, nor from others, though we might have been burdensome, as apostles of Christ.

So, tenderly affected towards you, we could with pleasure have imparted to you not the gospel of God only, but our own lives also, because ye were beloved by us.

For ye remember, brethren, our labour and toil: for night and day working hard, that we might be no burden to any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

For this cause do we also give thanks to God unceasingly, because when ye received the word reported by us from God, ye received it not as the word of man, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which worketh also effectually in you that believe.

who both murdered the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us, and please not God, and are in opposition to all mankind;

But we, brethren, bereaved of you for a short moment, in person, not in heart, have more abundantly longed to see your face with great desire.

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?

night and day most fervently praying that we may see your face, and amply supply the deficiencies of your faith?

not in the vile passion of lewdness, as the Gentiles which know not God;

For God hath not called us unto impurity, but unto holiness.

Therefore he that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his Holy Spirit.

Now concerning brotherly love, I have no need to write unto you: for ye yourselves are divinely taught to love one another.

that ye walk becomingly towards those without, and need no assistance from any person.

Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are fallen asleep, that ye be not afflicted, as the rest [of mankind] who have no hope.

For this I say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent those who are fallen asleep.

NOW concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I should write to you:

for yourselves know precisely that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day should overtake you as a thief.

Ye are all the children of light, and the children of day: we are not the children of night, nor of darkness.

Let us not then sleep as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

For they who sleep, sleep in the night, and they who are drunken, are drunken in the night;

For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Quench not the Spirit.

Despise not prophesyings.