For if we really believe that Jesus died and rose again, so even so will God through Jesus bring with him those also who have fallen asleep.

so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anyone.

then those of us who are still living will be caught up along with them on clouds in the air to meet the Lord, and so we shall be with the Lord forever.

And so, when I could no longer bear it, I made up my mind to be left behind at Athens, all alone.

For even when I was with you I used to tell you beforehand that I was to suffer affliction; and so it proved, as you know.

And so we too constantly thank God that when you received God's message that you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human message, but as it truly is, God's message, which is at work among you who believe.

God has thought us fit to be intrusted with the good news, and so we tell it, making no effort to please men, but to please God, who tests our hearts.

And so, since we have such deep affection for you, we were very pleased to share with you, not only the Gospel of God, but also our own lives, because you had become very dear to us.

And so we shall be with the Lord for ever. Therefore encourage one another with these words.

And so may he establish your hearts unblameable in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus, with all his saints.

You are witnesses, and so is God, of how devoutly, righteously, and blamelessly we conducted ourselves with you believers.

and so I sent my brother Timothy, God's minister in the preaching of the good news of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you in your faith,