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.

that ye should walk worthy of God, who calls you to his own 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.

so that no one would be unsettled by these difficulties [to which I have referred]. For you know that we have been destined for this [as something unavoidable in our position].

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

For this cause, I also, no longer concealing my anxiety, sent, that I might get to know your faith, lest by any means he that tempteth, should have tempted you, and, in vain, should have been our toil.

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 it is God's will that you should keep pure in person, that you should practice abstinence from sexual immorality,

that each man among you should learn to take his own wife out of pure and honorable motives,

that no one should do wrong and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord takes vengeance for all such things, as we told you before and solemnly warned you.

It is not needed that I should write to you about brotherly love; for you yourselves have been 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 the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that ye should be written to,

But you, brothers, are not in darkness, so that that day, like a thief, should take you by surprise;

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.

So that, whether we are awake 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.