and even when we were with you, we foretold you, that we should be persecuted, as you know it happen'd.

not being able therefore to wait any longer, I sent Timothy to know the state of your faith, for fear the tempter should have seduc'd you, and all our labour have prov'd abortive.

and such is the will of God, that you should be holy, and avoid licentiousness;

that every one of you should take care to preserve the dignity of his

that no man should be exorbitant, and behave contumeliously to his brother: because the Lord is the avenger of all such crimes, as we have formerly remonstrated to you.

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.