So that ye were types to all believing in Macedonia and Achaia.

For from you sounded forth the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith towards God went out; so that we have no need to speak any thing.

For ye yourselves know, brethren, our entrance to you, that it was not in vain:

For this also we return thanks to God continually, that, having received the word of God from our report, ye received not the word of man, but as it is truly, the word of God, which is also energetic in you the believing.

Hindering us from speaking to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always: and the wrath of God has come before upon them even to the end.

For none to be shaken in these pressures: for ye yourselves know that for this we are placed.

For also, when we were with you, we told you before that we were about to be pressed; as also it was, and ye know.

And now Timothy having come to us from you, and having announced to us the good news, your faith and love, and that ye have good remembrance. of us always, greatly desiring to see us, as we also you:

Therefore as to the rest, brethren we ask you, and beseech in the Lord Jesus, as ye received from us how ye must walk and please God, that ye may more abound.

For this is the will of God, your consecration, that ye should keep away from fornication:

And that ye be ambitions to remain quiet, and attend to your own things, and work with your own hands, as we enjoined you;

That ye should walk becomingly to them without, and have need of nothing.

And I wish you not to be ignorant, brethren, of them having been asleep, that ye should not grieve, as also the rest, they hating no hope.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose up, so also God by Jesus Christ will bring with him them having slept.

For this we say to you in the word of the Lord, that we the living being left at the arrival of the Lord shall not get beforehand with them having slept.

For ye yourselves know accurately that the day of the Lord, as a thief in the night, so comes.

And ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day as a thief overtake you.

He having died for us, that, whether we watch or sleep, we should live together with him.

See that any return not evil to any: but always pursue good to one another, and to all.