For our good news was not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much complete certainty; as we know what we were among you for your sake.

For from you sounded forth the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith towards God went out; so that we have no need to speak any thing.

For ye yourselves know, brethren, our entrance to you, that it was not in vain:

But as we have been tried by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, trying our hearts:

So longing for you, we are contented to impart to you, not only the good news of God, but also our own souls, because ye are dearly beloved to us.

For ye remember, brethren, our fatigue and toil: for also working night and day, not to overload any of you, we proclaimed to you the good news of God.

For this also we return thanks to God continually, that, having received the word of God from our report, ye received not the word of man, but as it is truly, the word of God, which is also energetic in you the believing.

They also having slain the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and having driven you out; and not pleasing God, and opposite to all men;

And we, brethren, having been separated from you for a due measure of time, in face, not in heart, we were the more excessively zealous to see your face with much eager desire.

For what our hope, or joy, or crown of boasting? Are not also ye before our Lord Jesus Christ in his arrival?

Night and day praying exceedingly to see your face, and to adjust things wanting of your faith?

Not in the passion of eager desire, as also the nations not knowing God:

Not to pass over and have the advantage over his brother in business: because the Lord just for all these, as we told you before and testified.

But God has not called you to uncleanness, but in consecration.

For surely therefore he despising, despises not man, but God, he also giving his holy Spirit for us.

And for brotherly love ye have no need to write to you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

That ye should walk becomingly to them without, and have need of nothing.

And I wish you not to be ignorant, brethren, of them having been asleep, that ye should not grieve, as also the rest, they hating no hope.

For this we say to you in the word of the Lord, that we the living being left at the arrival of the Lord shall not get beforehand with them having slept.

And of the times and seasons, brethren, ye have no need to write to you.

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

For when they say, Peace and security; then sudden ruin is upon them, as anguish in her with child; and they may not escape.

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

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

Therefore let us not sleep, as also the rest; but let us watch and be sober.

For they sleeping sleep in the night; and they drunken are drunken in the night.

For God set us not for wrath, but for the acquisition of salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

See that any return not evil to any: but always pursue good to one another, and to all.

Quench not the Spirit.

Set not prophecies at nought.