By the help of the Lord always keep up the glad spirit; yes, I will repeat it, keep up the glad spirit.

Let your forbearing spirit be known to everybody. The Lord is near.

Practice the things you learned, received, and heard from me, things that you saw me do, and then the God who gives us peace will be with you.

Not that I refer to any personal want, for I have learned to be contented in whatever circumstances I am.

I have received your payment in full, and more too. I am amply supplied after getting the things you sent by Epaphroditus; they are like sweet incense, the kind of sacrifice that God accepts and approves.

Remember me to every one of God's people in union with Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me wish to be remembered to you.

All God's people wish to be remembered to you, but more especially the members of the Emperor's household.

The spiritual blessing of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirits.

Paul, by God's will an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Timothy,

he is the very one who told me of the love awakened in you by the Spirit.

so that you may lead lives worthy of the Lord to His full satisfaction, by perennially bearing fruit in every good enterprise and by a steady growth in fuller knowledge of God;

then you will be perfectly empowered by His glorious might for every sort of joyous endurance and forbearance,

and you will always be thanking the Father who has qualified you to share the lot of His people in the realm of light.

by whom we possess the ransom from captivity, which means the forgiveness of our sins.

So you, who were once estranged from Him, and hostile in disposition as shown by your wrongdoings, He has now reconciled

by His death in His human body, so as to present you consecrated, faultless, and blameless in His presence,

if indeed you continue well grounded and firm in faith and never shift from the hope inspired by the good news you heard, which has been preached all over the world, and of which I, Paul, have been made a minister.

I am now glad to be suffering for you, and in my own person I am filling in what is lacking in Christ's sufferings for His body, that is, the church.

For this I am toiling and struggling by His active energy which is mightily working in me.

that their hearts may be encouraged, by having been knit together in love and by having atoned to the full assurance of understanding, so that they may finally reach the fullest knowledge of the open secret, Christ Himself,

I am saying this to keep anyone from misleading you by persuasive arguments.

Take care that nobody captures you by the idle fancies of his so-called philosophy, following human tradition and the world's crude notions instead of Christ.

And through your union with Him you once received, not a hand-performed circumcision but one performed by Christ, in stripping you of your lower nature,

canceled the note that stood against us, with its requirements, and has put it out of our way by nailing it to the cross.

He thus stripped the principalities and dominions of power and made a public display of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

When Christ, who is our life, appears, you too will appear to be glorified in fellowship with Him.

And whatever you say or do, let it all be done with reference to the Lord Jesus, and through Him continue to give thanks to God the Father.

for you know that it is from the Lord that you are going to get your pay in the form of an inheritance; so keep on serving Christ the Lord.

For the man who wrongs another will be paid back the wrong he has done; and there are no exceptions.

Masters, you must practice doing the right and square things by your slaves, for you know that you have a Master in heaven.

You must persevere in prayer and by this means stay wide awake when you give thanks.

Always let your conversation be seasoned with salt, that is, with winsomeness, so that you may know how to make a fitting answer to everyone.

he is accompanied by Onesimus, a faithful and dearly loved brother, who is one of your own number. They will tell you everything that is going on here.

Aristarchus, my fellow-prisoner, wishes to be remembered to you; and so does Mark, the cousin of Barnabas; if he comes to see you, give him a hearty welcome.

Epaphras, one of your own number, a slave of Christ Jesus, wishes to be remembered to you. He is always earnestly pleading for you in his prayers that you may stand fast as men mature and of firm convictions in everything required by the will of God.

Our dearly loved Luke, the physician, and Demas, wish to be remembered to you.

This farewell greeting is in my own hand, from Paul. Remember that I am still a prisoner. Spiritual blessing be with you.

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy to the Thessalonian church in union with God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: spiritual blessing and peace be to you.

For we know, brothers so beloved by God, that He has chosen you,

And you followed the example set by us and by the Lord, because you welcomed our message with a joy inspired by the Holy Spirit, in spite of the painful persecutions it brought you,

For you know yourselves, brothers, that our visit to you was by no means a failure.

But, although we had just suffered and been insulted, as you remember, at Philippi, we again summoned courage by the help of God, in spite of the terrific strain, to tell you God's good news.

for since we have been so approved by God as to be entrusted with the good news, we are now telling it, not to please men but God, who proves and finds approved our hearts.

Because we were yearning for you so tenderly, we were willing, not only to share with you God's good news, but to lay down our very lives too for you, all because you were so dearly loved by us.

You remember, brothers, our hard labor and toil. We kept up our habit of working night and day, in order not to be a burden to any of you when we preached to you.

by trying to keep us from speaking to the heathen, so that they may be saved, so as always to fill to the brim the cup of their sins. But at last God's wrath has come upon them.

So when I could not bear it any longer, I decided to be left behind in Athens alone,

so that none of you might be deceived amid these difficulties. For you knew yourselves that this is our appointed lot,

for when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we were going to be pressed with difficulties, and it took place, as you know.

That was why, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to learn about your faith, for I was afraid that the tempter had tempted you and our labor might be lost.

so that He may strengthen your hearts to be faultless in purity in the sight of God, when our Lord Jesus comes back with all His consecrated ones.

For you are aware of the instructions which we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.

Now as to brotherly love, you have no need of anyone's writing you, for you have yourselves been taught by God to love one another,

so that you may live influentially with the outsiders, and not be dependent on anybody.

For on the Lord's own authority we say that those of us who may be left behind and are still living when the Lord comes back, will have no advantage at all over those who have fallen asleep.

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,

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.

But you, brothers, are not in darkness, so that that day, like a thief, should take you by surprise;

We beg you, brothers, continue to warn the shirkers, to cheer the faint-hearted, to hold up the weak, and to be patient with everybody.

Always be joyful.

May God Himself, who gave you peace, consecrate your whole being. May you be safely kept, spirit, soul, and body, so as to be blameless when our Lord Jesus Christ comes back.

The spiritual blessing of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

spiritual blessing and peace be to you.

We always ought to be thanking God for you, brothers, as it is right to do so, because your faith is growing so much and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing

when on that day He comes to be glorified in His consecrated ones and to be admired by all who believe in Him because our testimony has been confidently accepted among you.

With this in view we are always praying for you too, that our God may make you worthy of His call, and by His power fully satisfy your every desire for goodness, and complete every activity of your faith,

so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you and you through union with Him, in accordance with the favor of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

not to let your minds be easily unsettled or even be excited, whether by some message by the Spirit or by some saying or letter that is claimed as coming from me, saying that the day of the Lord is already here.

the one who keeps up his opposition and so far exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, that he actually takes his seat in the sanctuary of God, proclaiming himself to be God.

So now you know the power that is holding him back, that he is to be unveiled at His own appointed time.

Then the representative of lawlessness will be uncovered, and the Lord Jesus will destroy him with the breath of His mouth and put a stop to his operations by His appearance and coming;

and with a completely wicked deception for men who are on the way to destruction, because they refused to love the truth so as to be saved.

so that all who have refused to believe the truth but have chosen unrighteousness instead might be condemned.

We ought always to be thanking God for you, brothers dearly loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through the Spirit's consecration of you and through your faith in the truth,

and to this end He called you by our preaching of the good news, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

So then, brothers, continue to stand firm and keep a tight grip on the teachings you have received from us, whether by word of mouth or by letter.

and that we may be delivered from unprincipled and wicked men; for not all men have faith.

But the Lord is to be trusted, and He will give you strength and guard you from the evil one.

I did not eat any man's bread without paying for it, but with toil and hard labor I worked night and day, in order not to be a burden to any of you.

Not that I have no right to be supported, but to make myself an example for you to follow.

For when I was with you, I gave you this direction, "If a person refuses to work, he must not be allowed to eat."

And may the Lord who gives us peace give you peace in whatever circumstances you may be. The Lord be with you all.

The spiritual blessing of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by command of God our Saviour and of Christ Jesus our hope,

to Timothy my genuine child in faith: spiritual blessing, mercy, and peace be with you from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

But the aim of your instruction is to be love that flows out of a pure heart, a good conscience, and a sincere faith.

They want to be teachers of the law, although they do not understand the words they use or the things about which they make such confident assertions.

as measured by the glorious good news of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted.

though I once used to abuse, persecute, and insult Him. But mercy was shown me by Him, because I did it in ignorance and unbelief,

and the spiritual blessing of our Lord in increasing floods has come upon me, accompanied by faith and love inspired by union with Christ Jesus.

It is a saying to be trusted and deserves our fullest acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; and I am the foremost of them.

To the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever! Amen.

This is the instruction which I entrust to you, my son Timothy, which is in accordance with the prophetic utterances formerly made about you, that you may, aided by them, continue to fight the good fight,

by keeping your hold on faith and a good conscience; for some have thrust the latter aside and so have made shipwreck of their faith.

Among these are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have turned over to Satan to be so disciplined that they will stop their abusive speech.

First of all, then, I urge that entreaties, prayers, and thanksgiving be offered for all men,

who is ever willing for all mankind to be saved and to come to an increasing knowledge of the truth.

So I want the men everywhere to offer prayer, lifting to heaven holy hands which are kept unstained by anger and dissensions.

but with good deeds; for this is appropriate for women who profess to be pious.

But women will be saved through motherhood, if they continue to live in faith, love, and purity, blended with good sense.