for you have started, my brothers, to copy the churches of God in Christ Jesus throughout Judaea; you have suffered from your compatriots just as they have suffered from the Jews,

who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, who harassed ourselves, who offend God and oppose all men

For who is our hope, our joy, our crown of pride (who but you?) in the presence of our Lord Jesus on his arrival?

May our God and Father and our Lord Jesus direct my way to you!

so as to strengthen your hearts and make them blameless in holiness before our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his holy ones. [Amen.]

Finally, brothers, we beg and beseech you in the Lord Jesus to follow our instructions about the way you are to live so as to satisfy God; you are leading that life, but you are to excel in it still further.

You remember the instructions we gave you on the authority of the Lord Jesus.

Since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, then it follows that by means of Jesus God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.

but we must be sober, we who belong to the day, clad in faith and love as our coat of mail, with the hope of salvation as our helmet ??9 for God destined us not for Wrath but to gain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

thank God for everything ??such is his will for you in Christ Jesus;

May the God of peace consecrate you through and through! Spirit, soul, and body, may you be kept without break or blame till the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ!

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. [Amen.]

PAUL and Silvanus and Timotheus, to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:

grace and peace to you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

and repay you who are troubled (as well as us) with rest and relief, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven together with the angels of his power

in flaming fire, to inflict punishment on those who ignore God, even on those who refuse obedience to the gospel of our Lord Jesus,

so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you (and you glorified in him), by the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

With regard to the arrival of the Lord Jesus Christ and our muster before him, I beg you, brothers,

Then shall the Lawless One be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will destroy with the breath of his lips and quell by his appearing and arrival ??9 that One whose arrival is due to Satan's activity, with the full power, the miracles and portents, of falsehood,

it was for this that he called you by our gospel, to gain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father who has loved us and given us eternal encouragement and good hope,

Brothers, we charge you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to shun any brother who is loafing, instead of following the rule you got from us.

Now in the Lord Jesus Christ we charge and exhort such persons to keep quiet, to do their work and earn their own living.

'The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.'

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

to Timotheus his lawful son in the faith: grace, mercy, peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

I render thanks to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has made me able for this; he considered me trustworthy and appointed me to the ministry,

and the grace of our Lord flooded my life along with the faith and love that Christ Jesus inspires.

It is a sure word, it deserves all praise, that "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners"; and though I am the foremost of sinners,

I obtained mercy, for the purpose of furnishing Christ Jesus with the chief illustration of his utter patience; I was to be the typical instance of all who were to believe in him and gain eternal life.

the man Christ Jesus who gave himself as a ransom for all": ??in due time this was attested,

For those who do good service as deacons win a good position for themselves as well as great freedom in the faith of Christ Jesus.

Lay this before the brotherhood, and you will be an excellent minister of Christ Jesus, brought up on the truths of the faith and on the lessons of the good doctrine you have already followed.

In the presence of God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the elect angels, I adjure you to be unprejudiced in carrying out these orders; be absolutely impartial.

Anyone who teaches novelties and refuses to fall in with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the doctrine that tallies with piety,

In the presence of God who is the Life of all, and of Christ Jesus who testified to the good confession before Pontius Pilate, I charge you

to keep your commission free from stain, free from reproach, till the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ ??15 which will be brought about in due time by that blessed and only Sovereign, King of kings and Lord of lords,

Paul an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God in the service of the Life he has promised in Christ Jesus ??2 to his beloved son Timotheus: grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

who has saved us and called us to a life of consecration ??not for anything we have done but because he chose to do it himself, by the grace which he gave us ages ago in Christ Jesus

and has now revealed in the appearance of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who has put down death and brought life and immortality to light by the gospel.

Model yourself on the sound instruction you have had from me in the faith and love of Christ Jesus.

Now, my son, be strong in the grace of Christ Jesus,

Join the ranks of those who bear suffering, like a loyal soldier of Christ Jesus.

Never forget "Jesus Christ risen from the dead, descended from David" ??that is my gospel,

All I endure is for the sake of the elect, to let them obtain their share of the salvation of Christ Jesus and also of eternal glory.

Yes, and all who want to live the religious life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

remember you have known from childhood the sacred writings that can impart saving wisdom by faith in Christ Jesus.

In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who will judge the living and the dead, in the light of his appearance and his reign,

The Lord Jesus be with your spirit. Grace be with you all.

Paul a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ for the faith of God's elect and for their knowledge of the Truth that goes with a religious life,

serving in hope of the life eternal which God, who never lies, promised ages ago ??3 he gave effect to his word in due time by a proclamation with which I have been entrusted by command of God our Saviour: ??4 to Titus my lawful son in a faith we hold in common; grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour.

awaiting the blessed hope of the appearance of the Glory of the great God and of our Saviour Christ Jesus,

which he poured upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Saviour,

Paul a prisoner of Christ Jesus and brother Timotheus, to our beloved fellow-worker Philemon,

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

for as I hear of your love and loyalty to the Lord Jesus and to all the saints,

I prefer to appeal to you on the ground of love. Well then, as Paul the old man, who now-a-days is a prisoner for Christ Jesus,

Epaphras my fellow-prisoner in Christ Jesus salutes you.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.

what we do see is Jesus who was put lower than the angels for a little while to suffer death, and who has been crowned with glory and honour that by God's grace he might taste death for everyone.

Holy brothers, you who participate in a heavenly calling, look at Jesus then, at the apostle and high priest of our confession;

Jesus has been adjudged greater glory than Moses, inasmuch as the founder of a house enjoys greater honour than the house itself.

As we have a great high priest, then, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession;

There Jesus entered for us in advance, when he became high priest for ever with the rank of Melchizedek.

And this makes Jesus surety for a superior covenant.

And it is by this will that we are consecrated, because Jesus Christ once for all has offered up his body.

Brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy Presence in virtue of the blood of Jesus,

our eyes fixed upon Jesus as the pioneer and the perfection of faith ??upon Jesus who, in order to reach his own appointed joy, steadily endured the cross, thinking nothing of its shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

to Jesus who mediates the new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood whose message is nobler than Abel's.

Jesus Christ is always the same, yesterday, to-day, and for ever.

and so Jesus also suffered outside the gate, in order to sanctify the people by his own blood.

May the God of peace who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep, with the blood of the eternal covenant,

furnish you with everything for the doing of his will, creating in your lives by Jesus Christ what is acceptable in his own sight! To him be glory for ever and ever: Amen.

James, a servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: greeting.

My brothers, as you believe in our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the Glory, pay no servile regard to people.

Peter an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

whom God the Father has predestined and chosen, by the consecration of the Spirit, to obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: may grace and peace be multiplied to you.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy we have been born anew to a life of hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

that is only to prove your faith is sterling (far more precious than gold which is perishable and yet is tested by fire), and it redounds to your praise and glory and honour at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Brace up your minds, then, keep cool, and put your hope for good and all in the grace that is coming to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

come and, like living stones yourselves, be built into a spiritual house, to form a consecrated priesthood for the offering of those spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Baptism, the counterpart of that, saves you to-day (not the mere washing of dirt from the flesh but the prayer for a clean conscience before God) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ

If anyone preaches, he must preach as one who utters the words of God; if anyone renders some service, it must be as one who is supplied by God with power, so that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. The glory and the dominion are his for ever and ever: Amen.

Once you have suffered for a little, the God of all grace who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, will repair and recruit and strengthen you.

Salute one another with a kiss of love. Peace be to you all who are in Christ [Jesus].

Symeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have been allotted a faith of equal privilege with ours, by the equity of our God and saviour Jesus Christ:

For as these qualities exist and increase with you, they render you active and fruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ;

you will thus be richly furnished with the right of entry into the eternal realm of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ.

since I know my tent must be folded up very soon ??as indeed our Lord Jesus Christ has shown me.

For it was no fabricated fables that we followed when we reported to you the power and advent of our Lord Jesus Christ; we were admitted to the spectacle of his sovereignty,

After escaping the pollutions of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ, if they get entangled and overpowered again, the last state is worse for them than the first.

but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ. To him be the glory now and to the day of eternity: Amen.

(the Life has appeared; we saw it, we testify to it, we bring you word of that eternal Life which existed with the Father and was disclosed to us) ??3 it is of what we heard and saw that we bring you word, so that you may share our fellowship; and our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

but if we live and move within the light, as he is within the light, then we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from every sin.

My dear children, I am writing this to you that you may not sin; but if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father in Jesus Christ the just;

Who is the real liar? who but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is 'antichrist,' he who disowns the Father and the Son.

Now this is what he commands, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another as he has commanded us to do;

You can recognize the Spirit of God by this: every spirit which confesses Jesus as the Christ incarnate comes from God,

and every spirit which does not confess Jesus [incarnate] does not come from God. This latter is the spirit of antichrist; you were told it was coming, and here it is already in the world.

Whoever confesses that 'Jesus is the Son of God,' in him God remains, and he remains in God;