knowing as we do, brethren, that you are beloved by God and that He has chosen you.

For the Lord’s message rang out from you, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place that your faith in God has gone out. Therefore, we don’t need to say anything,

Rather, because we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, we speak as we do, not trying to please people but God, who tests our motives.

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;

But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has given us good news of your faith and love, and that you have happy memories of us, desiring greatly to see us, even as we do to see you;

for what thanks are we able to recompense to God for you, for all the joy with which we do joy because of you in the presence of our God?

And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:

Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk, --that ye abound more and more.

not in lustful passion, just as also the Gentiles who do not know God;

None of you over-reaching or taking advantage of his Brother in such matters. 'The Lord takes vengeance' upon all who do such things, as we have already warned you and solemnly declared.

But concerning brotherly love, I do not have need to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;

But we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them that are fallen asleep, to the end that ye be not grieved even as also the rest who have no 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,

About the times and the seasons: Brothers, you do not need anything to be written to you.

for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We do not belong to the night nor to darkness.

Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

But let us, belonging--as we do--to the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.

Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.