and to wait for the coming from heaven of His Son, whom He raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.

For our appeal did not originate from a delusion or an impure motive; it was not made in fraud;

For you, brothers, followed the example of God's churches in Judea that are in union with Christ Jesus, for you too have suffered the same sort of ill-treatment at the hands of your fellow-countrymen as they did at the hands of the Jews,

Because we did want to come to see you; I mean, that I myself, Paul, wanted again and again to come, but Satan prevented it.

For God did not call us to a life of immorality, but to one of personal purity.

For the Lord Himself, at the summons sounded by the archangel's call and by God's trumpet, will come down from heaven, and first of all the dead in union with Christ will rise,