This is why we constantly thank God, because when you received the message about God that you heard from us, you welcomed it not as a human message, but as it truly is, the message of God, which also works effectively in you believers.

so that no one will be shaken by these persecutions. For you yourselves know that we are appointed to this.

For this reason, when I could no longer stand it, I also sent him to find out about your faith, fearing that the tempter had tempted you and that our labor might be for nothing.

For this is God’s will, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality,

This means one must not transgress against and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger of all these offenses, as we also previously told and warned you.

Therefore, the person who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who also gives you His Holy Spirit.

In fact, you are doing this toward all the brothers in the entire region of Macedonia. But we encourage you, brothers, to do so even more,

For we say this to you by a revelation from the Lord: We who are still alive at the Lord’s coming will certainly have no advantage over those who have fallen asleep.

But you, brothers, are not in the dark, for this day to overtake you like a thief.

Give thanks in everything,
for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

I charge you by the Lord that this letter be read to all the brothers.