and send Timothy, our brother who works with us for God in the gospel of the Messiah, to strengthen and encourage you in your faith,

But Timothy has just now returned from visiting you and has told us the good news about your faith and love. He also told us that you always have fond memories of us and want to see us, just as we want to see you.

How can we thank God enough for you in return for all the joy that we have in God's presence because of you?

Now may our God and Father and our Lord Jesus provide a way for us to visit you.

Then your hearts will be strong, blameless, and holy in the presence of God, who is our Father, when our Lord Jesus appears with all his saints.

Now then, brothers, you learned from us how you ought to live and to please God, as in fact you are doing. We ask and encourage you in the Lord to do so even more.

For it is God's will that you be sanctified: You must abstain from sexual immorality.

not with passion and lust like the gentiles who do not know God.

For God did not call us to be impure, but to be holy.

Therefore, whoever rejects this instruction is not rejecting human authority but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.

Now you do not need anyone to write to you about brotherly love, since you have been taught by God to love each other.

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

With a shout of command, with the archangel's call, and with the sound of God's trumpet, the Lord himself will come down from heaven, and the dead who belong to the Messiah will rise first.

For people who go to sleep, go to sleep at night; and people who get drunk, get drunk at night.

For God has not destined us to receive wrath but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus, the Messiah,

Make sure that no one pays back evil for evil. Instead, always pursue what is good for each other and for everyone else.

In everything be thankful, because this is God's will for you in the Messiah Jesus.

Instead, test everything. Hold on to what is good.

May the God of peace himself make you holy in every way. And may your whole being spirit, soul, and body remain blameless when our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, appears.

From: Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy. To: The church of the Thessalonians in union with God our Father and the Lord Jesus, the Messiah.

May grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, be yours!

Brothers, at all times we are obligated to thank God for you. It is right to do this because your faith is growing all the time and the love every one of you has for each other is increasing.

As a result, we rejoice about you among God's churches about your endurance and faith through all the persecutions and afflictions you are experiencing.

This is evidence of God's righteous judgment and is intended to make you worthy of God's kingdom, for which you are suffering.

Certainly it is right for God to pay back those who afflict you with affliction,

in blazing fire. He will take revenge on those who do not know God and on those who refuse to obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

With this in mind, we always pray for you, asking that our God might make you worthy of his calling and that through his power he might help you accomplish every good desire and faithful action.

That way the name of our Lord Jesus will be glorified by you, and you by him, according to the grace of our God and Lord, Jesus, the Messiah.

He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god and object of worship. As a result, he seats himself in the sanctuary of God and himself declares that he is God.

For this reason, God will send them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie.

At all times we are obligated to thank God for you, brothers who are loved by the Lord, because God chose you to be the first fruits for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and through faith in the truth.

May our Lord Jesus, the Messiah himself, and may God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal comfort and good hope,

encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good action and word.

May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the endurance of the Messiah.

Brothers, do not get tired of doing what is right.

From: Paul, an apostle of the Messiah Jesus, by the command of God our Savior and the Messiah Jesus, our hope.

To: Timothy, my genuine child in the faith. May grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Messiah Jesus, our Lord, be yours!

and occupying themselves with myths and endless genealogies. These things promote controversies rather than God's ongoing purpose, which involves faith.

Of course, we know that the Law is good if a person uses it legitimately,

that agrees with the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me.

Now to the King Eternal the immortal, invisible, and only God be honor and glory forever and ever! Amen.

Timothy, my child, I am instructing you in keeping with the prophecies made earlier about you, so that by following them you may continue to fight the good fight

with faith and a good conscience. By ignoring their consciences, some people have destroyed their faith like a wrecked ship.

First of all, then, I urge you to offer to God petitions, prayers, intercessions, and expressions of thanks for all people,

for kings, and for everyone who has authority, so that we might lead a quiet and peaceful life with all godliness and dignity.

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

There is one God. There is also one mediator between God and human beings a human, the Messiah Jesus.

but through good actions. This is proper for women who claim to revere God.

Let a woman learn with a quiet spirit, and submissively.

even though she will be saved through the birth of the Child, if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, along with good judgment.

For if a man does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God's church?

in case I am delayed, so that you may know how to behave in God's household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

They will try to stop people from marrying and from eating certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

For everything God created is good, and nothing should be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,

because it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

If you continue to point these things out to the brothers, you will be a good servant of the Messiah Jesus, nourished by the words of the faith and the healthy teaching that you have followed closely.

To this end we work hard and struggle, because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, that is, of those who believe.

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to respect their own family by repaying their parents, for this is pleasing in God's sight.

A woman who has no other family members to care for her and who is left all alone has placed her hope in God and devotes herself to petitions and prayers night and day.

But the self-indulgent widow is just as good as dead.

She must be well known for her good actions as a woman who has raised children, welcomed strangers, washed the saints' feet, helped the suffering, and devoted herself to doing good in every way.

With God as my witness, as well as the Messiah Jesus and the chosen angels, I solemnly call on you to carry out these instructions without prejudice, doing nothing on the basis of partiality.

In the same way, good actions are obvious, and those that are not cannot remain hidden.

All who are under the yoke of slavery should regard their own masters as deserving of the highest respect, so that the name of God and our teaching may not be discredited.

But people who want to get rich keep toppling into temptation and are trapped by many stupid and harmful desires that plunge them into destruction and ruin.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, in their eagerness to get rich, have wandered away from the faith and caused themselves a lot of pain.

But you, man of God, must flee from all these things. Instead, you must pursue righteousness, godliness, faithfulness, love, endurance, and gentleness.

Fight the good fight for the faith. Keep holding on to eternal life, to which you were called and about which you gave a good testimony in front of many witnesses.

Since you are in the presence of God, who gives life to everything, and in the presence of the Messiah Jesus, who gave a good testimony before Pontius Pilate, I solemnly charge you

At the right time, he will make him known. God is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords.

Tell those who are rich in this age not to be arrogant and not to place their confidence in anything as uncertain as riches. Instead, let them place their confidence in God, who lavishly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.

They are to do good, to be rich in good actions, to be generous, and to share.

By doing this they store up a treasure for themselves that is a good foundation for the future, so that they can keep their hold on the life that is real.

From: Paul, an apostle of the Messiah Jesus by God's will in keeping with the promise of life that is in the Messiah Jesus.

To: Timothy, my dear child. May grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Messiah Jesus our Lord be yours!

I constantly thank my God whom I serve with a clear conscience, as my ancestors did when I remember you in my prayers night and day,

For this reason, I am reminding you to fan into flames the gift of God that is within you through the laying on of my hands.

For God did not give us a spirit of timidity but one of power, love, and self-discipline.

Therefore, never be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord or of me, his prisoner. Instead, by God's power, join me in suffering for the sake of the gospel.

With the help of the Holy Spirit who lives in us, protect the good treasure that has been entrusted to you.

Join me in suffering like a good soldier of the Messiah Jesus.

Because of it I am experiencing trouble, even to the point of being chained like a criminal. However, God's word is not chained.

Remind others about these things, and warn them before God not to argue over words. Arguing does not do any good but only destroys those who are listening.

Do your best to present yourself to God as an approved worker who has nothing to be ashamed of, handling the word of truth with precision.

However, God's solid foundation still stands. It has this inscription on it: "The Lord knows those who belong to him," and "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord must turn away from evil."

Therefore, if anyone stops associating with these people, he will become a special utensil, set apart for the owner's use, prepared for every good action.

and gentle when refuting opponents. After all, maybe God will allow them to repent and to come to a full knowledge of the truth,

unfeeling, uncooperative, slanderous, degenerate, brutal, hateful of what is good,

traitors, reckless, conceited, and lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.

But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those two men, their stupidity will be plain to everyone.

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

so that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good action.

In the presence of God and the Messiah Jesus, who is going to judge those who are living and those who are dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I solemnly appeal to you

I have fought the good fight. I have completed the race. I have kept the faith.

Only Luke is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, for he is useful in my ministry.

When you come, bring the coat I left with Carpus in Troas, as well as the scrolls and especially the parchments.

From: Paul, a servant of God, and also an apostle of Jesus the Messiah, to bring the faith to those chosen by God, along with full knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness,

which is based on the hope of eternal life that God, who cannot lie, promised before the world began.

At the right time he revealed his message through the proclamation that was entrusted to me by the command of God our Savior.

To: Titus, a genuine child in the faith that we share. May grace and peace from God the Father and the Messiah, Jesus our Savior, be yours!