We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;

For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in great fulness of assurance; as ye know what manner of men we have been among you for your sakes.

so that ye became models for all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.

For from you sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only into Macedonia and Achaia, but into every region also your fidelity towards God is gone out, so that we have no need to say any thing.

For they publish concerning you what manner of entrance we had unto you, and how ye turned unto God from idols, to serve the living and true God,

and to wait for his Son from the heavens, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, who delivereth us from the wrath to come.

FOR ye yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in to you, that it was not in vain.

For neither at any time used we insinuating language, as ye know, nor a pretext for covetousness; God is witness:

For ye remember, brethren, our labour and toil: for night and day working hard, that we might be no burden to any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

For this cause do we also give thanks to God unceasingly, because when ye received the word reported by us from God, ye received it not as the word of man, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which worketh also effectually in you that believe.

For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea, in Christ Jesus: for ye suffered the same things also yourselves from your own countrymen, as they too have of the Jews;

But we, brethren, bereaved of you for a short moment, in person, not in heart, have more abundantly longed to see your face with great desire.

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?

For ye are our glory and joy.

that no man might be shaken by these tribulations; for ye yourselves know that thereunto we are appointed.

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

For this cause also, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your fidelity, lest by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labour should be in vain.

for this cause we have felt consolation, brethren, in you under all our tribulation and distress, because of your fidelity.

For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.

For what sufficient thanks can we render to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice on your account before our God,

For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from whoredom;

For God hath not called us unto impurity, but unto holiness.

Now concerning brotherly love, I have no need to write unto you: for ye yourselves are divinely taught to love one another.

For if we believe that Jesus died, and rose again, so also those that have fallen asleep for Jesus shall God bring with him.

For this I say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent those who are fallen asleep.

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

for yourselves know precisely that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

For when they say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction rusheth upon them, as travail on a woman with child, and they shall in no wise escape.

For they who sleep, sleep in the night, and they who are drunken, are drunken in the night;

but let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.

For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

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

and to account of them very highly in love for their work's sake. And live in peace among yourselves.

See that no man return evil for evil to any man; but always pursue that which is good, both towards one another, and towards all men.

In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus to you-wards.

Brethren, pray for us.