For you brothers [should] know that our coming to you was not a waste of time.

but as we were allowed of God, that the gospel should be committed unto us: even so we speak, not as though we intended to please men, but God, which trieth our hearts.

But we were gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse should cherish her children:

For you remember, brethren, our labor and toil: night and day working, that we should burden no one of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

and charged you, that ye should walk worthy of God, who hath called you to his kingdom and glory.

forbidding that we should speak to the Gentiles in order that they may be saved; that they may fill up their sins always: but the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

that no man should be moved in these afflictions. For ye yourselves know that we are even appointed thereunto.

For verily when I was with you, I told you before that we should suffer tribulation even as it came to pass, and as ye know.

For this reason, being no longer able to forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest in some way the tempter should have tempted you, and our labor be in vain.

Finally then, brothers, we request and urge you, in [the fellowship of] the Lord, that you should live [dedicated lives] and please God. Just as you people received direction from us [on doing this], see that you [continue to] do it more and more.

For this is the will of God, even that ye should be holy, and that ye should abstain from fornication,

that every one of you should know how to keep his vessel in holiness and honour,

that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.

But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that I should write to you; for you are taught by God to love one another;

That ye should walk reputably toward those without, and, of no one, have, need.

Now I would not have you, my brethren, be mistaken about the state of the dead, lest you should be as greatly afflicted as those, who have no hope.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also should we believe that God will, through Jesus, bring with him those who sleep.

But concerning the times and season, brothers, you have no need that I should write to you;

But you, brothers, are not in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.

So then, we should not be [spiritually] asleep, like the rest [i.e., the unsaved world], but we should be alert and sober [i.e., in control of our senses].

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

who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

And regard them very highly, in a loving way, because of the work they do. You should live at peace with one another.

You should be joyful at all times.