Ye are witnesses, and God, how piously and justly and blamelessly we became to 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.

For ye are our glory and joy.

for no man to be disturbed by these afflictions. For ye yourselves know that we are set for this.

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 ye are also doing it toward all the brothers in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, to abound more,

But we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about those who are asleep, so that ye may not grieve, as also the others who have no hope.

For this we say to you in the word of Lord, that we who are alive, who remain for the coming of the Lord, will no, not precede those who became asleep.

then we who are alive, who remain, will be caught up simultaneously with them in clouds to the Lord's gathering in the air. And so we will always be with Lord.

But ye, brothers, are not in darkness, so that the day would seize you as a thief.

Ye are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.

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

So that, whether we are awake or sleep, we should live together with him.

Therefore encourage each other, and build ye up one by one, just as ye also are doing.