because our good news did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, even as ye have known of what sort we became among you because of you,

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

For yourselves have known, brethren, our entrance in unto you, that it did not become vain,

for our exhortation is not out of deceit, nor out of uncleanness, nor in guile,

but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who is proving our hearts,

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

for ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail, for, night and day working not to be a burden upon any of you, we did preach to you the good news of God;

Because of this also, we -- we do give thanks to God continually, that, having received the word of hearing from us of God, ye accepted, not the word of man, but as it is truly, the word of God, who also doth work in you who believe;

who did both put to death the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and did persecute us, and God they are not pleasing, and to all men are contrary,

And we, brethren, having been taken from you for the space of an hour -- in presence, not in heart -- did hasten the more abundantly to see your face in much desire,

for what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? are not even ye before our Lord Jesus Christ in his presence?

night and day exceedingly beseeching, that we might see your face, and perfect the things lacking in your faith.

not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,

for God did not call us on uncleanness, but in sanctification;

he, therefore, who is despising -- doth not despise man, but God, who also did give His Holy Spirit to us.

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

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 yourselves have known thoroughly that the day of the Lord as a thief in the night doth so come,

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;

all ye are sons of light, and sons of day; we are not of night, nor of darkness,

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

for those sleeping, by night do sleep, and those making themselves drunk, by night are drunken,

because God did not appoint us to anger, but to the acquiring of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

The Spirit quench not;

prophesyings despise not;