For we came neither in word of flattery (at any time as ye know) nor a pretense of greed (God is witness)

Thus being desirous of you, we were pleased to impart to you, not only the good-news of God, but also our own souls, because ye have become beloved to us.

For ye remember, brothers, our labor and the hardship. For, laboring night and day in order not to burden any of you, we preached to you the good-news of God.

Ye are witnesses, and God, how piously and justly and blamelessly we became to you who believe,

and solemnly declaring for you to walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.

And because of this we thank God without ceasing, because, having received the word of God heard from us, ye received not the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God, which also is at work in you who believe.

For ye, brothers, became imitators of the congregations of God, which are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because ye also suffered the same things by your own countrymen, just as also they by the Jews.

The men who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and who persecuted us, and are not pleasing to God, and are contrary to all men.

And we sent Timothy, our brother, and a helper of God, and our fellow workman in the good-news of the Christ, in order to establish you and to encourage you about your faith,

But now of Timothy, having come to us from you, and having proclaimed good news to us of your faith and love, and that ye always have a good recollection of us, longing to see us, just as we also you,

For what thanks can we repay God about you, for all the joy in which we rejoiced because of you before our God,

Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you.

in order to establish your hearts unblameable in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his sanctified.

Finally therefore, brothers, we ask you, and summon in Lord Jesus, that just as ye received from us how ye ought to walk and to please God, that ye may abound more.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification, for you to abstain from fornication,

not in passion of lust, as also the Gentiles who have not known God,

For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.

Therefore he who disregards, disregards not man, but God, who also gave his Holy Spirit to you.

But about brotherly love ye have no need to write to you, for ye yourselves are taught by God in order to love each other.

For if we believe that Jesus died and arose, so also those who became asleep through Jesus, God will bring with him.

Because the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with a voice of the arch-agent, and with a trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first,

For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who are intoxicated get drunk at night.

Because God appointed us not for wrath, but for an acquired possession of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us.

See that not any man repays evil for evil to any man, but always pursue the good, both for each other and for all.

In everything express thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

but examine all things. Hold firm the good.

And may the God of peace himself sanctify you thoroughly. And may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, blamelessly at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the congregation of Thessalonians in God our Father and Lord Jesus Christ:

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and Lord Jesus Christ.

We are indebted to thank God always about you, brothers, as it is fitting, because your faith is increasing greatly, and the love of each one of you all toward each other abounds.

So as for us ourselves to have pride in you in the congregations of God, for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the tribulations that ye endure,

being evidence of the righteous judgment of God, for you to be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which also ye suffer.

Since it is a righteous thing according to God to repay restriction to those who restrict you,

in a fire of flame rendering vengeance to those who have not known God, and to those not obeying the good-news of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For which also we pray always about you, so that our God will make you worthy of the calling, and will fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power.

So that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and Lord Jesus Christ.

who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or an object of worship, so as for him to sit in the temple of God, as God, displaying himself that he is God.

And because of this God will send them the force of a delusion, for them to believe a lie,

But we are indebted to express thanks to God always about you, brothers, beloved by Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation, in sanctification of spirit and belief of truth,

for which he called you, through our good-news, for an acquired possession of glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father who loved us and gave eternal encouragement and good hope through grace,

encourage your hearts and establish you in every good word and work.

And may the Lord direct your hearts for the love of God, and for the steadfastness of the Christ.

But ye, brothers, do not become weary doing good.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to a commandment of God our Savior, and Lord Jesus Christ our hope,

to Timothy, a genuine child in faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

nor to heed myths and endless genealogies, which cause controversies rather than stewardship of God in faith.

But the end of the commandment is love out of a pure heart, and a good conscience, and non-hypocritical faith.

But we know that the law is good, if any man uses it lawfully,

according to the good-news of the glory of the blessed God, of which I was entrusted.

Now to the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, alone wise, to God is honor and glory into the ages of the ages. Truly.

This command I set before thee, child Timothy, according to the prophecies leading the way for thee, so that by them thou might war the good warfare.

Holding faith and a good conscience, which some, having put away, made shipwreck about the faith,

for kings and all those who are in prominence, so that we may live a quiet and peaceful life in all piety and propriety.

For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,

For there is one God, and one mediator of God and men, the man Jesus Christ,

but (which is fitting for women professing godliness) through good works.

Faithful is the saying, If any man aspires to supervision, he desires a good work.

(but if any man knows not how to rule his own house, how will he take care of a congregation of God?),

And he must also have good testimony from those outside, lest he may fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

For those who serve well will acquire to themselves a good standing, and much boldness in the faith in Christ Jesus.

but if I delay, that thou may know how it is necessary to live in a house of God, which is a congregation of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

And without controversy great is the mystery of piety. God was manifested in flesh, justified in spirit, seen by heavenly agents, proclaimed among nations, believed in the world, taken up in glory.

forbidding to marry, to abstain from foods, which God created for partaking with thankfulness by those who believe and know the truth.

Because every creation of God is good, and nothing rejected that is received with thankfulness,

for it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.

Laying these things down to the brothers, thou will be a good helper of Jesus Christ, reared up in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine that thou have followed.

For we both labor and are reproached for this, because we have hoped in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of the faithful.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to be devoted to their own house, and to give back recompense to their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

But the real widow, and made alone, has hoped in God, and continues in entreaties and prayers night and day.

being testified in good works: if she has reared children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the feet of the sanctified, if she has relieved those who are afflicted, if she has followed every good work.

I solemnly testify before God, and Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen agents, that thou keep these things without prejudice, doing nothing from partiality.

Likewise also good works are evident, and those faring otherwise cannot be hid.

Let bondmen, as many as are under a yoke, regard their own masters worthy of all respect, so that the name of God and the doctrine may not be blasphemed.

But thou, O man of God, flee these things, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, patience, mildness.

Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life for which thou are called, and confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

I command thee in the sight of God, who makes all live, and of Christ Jesus, who testified to Pontius Pilate the good confession,

Command the rich in the present age not to be arrogant, nor hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in the living God, who supplies us all things abundantly for enjoyment,

to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous, willing to share,

storing up for themselves a good foundation for that which is coming, so that they may take hold of the eternal life.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life in Christ Jesus,

to Timothy, a beloved child: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

I have gratitude to God whom I serve from the forefathers in a pure conscience, as I have unceasing remembrance about thee in my supplications, night and day

Because of which reason I remind thee to rekindle the gift of God that is in thee through the laying on of my hands.

For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but of power, and of love, and of soberness.

Be not ashamed therefore of the testimony of our Lord nor of me his prisoner, but suffer together with the good-news according to the power of God.

But which has now been manifested by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who indeed abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the good-news,

Guard the good consignment through the Holy Spirit that dwells in us.

Thou therefore endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, of the seed of David, according to my good-news,

within which I suffer evil to the point of bonds as an evildoer, but the word of God is not bound.

Be diligent to present thyself approved to God, an irreproachable workman, correctly traversing the word of truth.

Nevertheless the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal, Lord knows those who are his, and, Let every man who names the name of Lord keep away from unrighteousness.

If therefore any man purges himself from these things, he will be a vessel for esteem, sanctified and useful to the master, prepared for every good work.

in mildness correcting those who oppose. Perhaps God may grant them repentance for recognition of the truth,

devoid of natural affection, irreconcilable, slanderous, without self-control, savage, no lovers of good,

traitors, reckless, beclouded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God,

Every scripture is inspired by God and useful for instruction, for reproof, for correction, for discipline in righteousness,

so that the man of God may be qualified, having been completed for every good work.

I solemnly testify therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who is going to judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom,