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.

But having suffered before and been mistreated in Philippi, as ye know, we were bold in our God to speak to you the good-news of God within much conflict.

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.

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.

Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles so that they might be saved, in order to fill up their sins always. But wrath came upon them finally.

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.

But now of Timothy, having come to us from you, and having proclaimed good news to us of your faith and love, and that ye always have a good recollection of us, longing to see us, just as we also you,

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.

For ye are also doing it toward all the brothers in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, to abound more,

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.

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

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

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

But we, being of the day, should be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and a helmet, the hope of salvation.

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.

but examine all things. Hold firm the good.