buried with him in baptism, in which ye have been also raised with him through faith of the working of God who raised him from among the dead.

and not holding fast the head, from whom all the body, ministered to and united together by the joints and bands, increases with the increase of God.

If therefore ye have been raised with the Christ, seek the things which are above, where the Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God:

for ye have died, and your life is hid with the Christ in God.

On account of which things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering;

Let the word of the Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another, in psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to God.

And everything, whatever ye may do in word or in deed, do all things in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father by him.

praying at the same time for us also, that God may open to us a door of the word to speak the mystery of Christ, on account of which also I am bound,

and Jesus called Justus, who are of the circumcision. These are the only fellow-workers for the kingdom of God who have been a consolation to me.

Epaphras, who is one of you, the bondman of Christ Jesus, salutes you, always combating earnestly for you in prayers, to the end that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

Paul and Silvanus and Timotheus to the assembly of Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace to you and peace.

We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you at our prayers,

remembering unceasingly your work of faith, and labour of love, and enduring constancy of hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

knowing, brethren beloved by God, your election.

for the word of the Lord sounded out from you, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith which is towards God has gone abroad, so that we have no need to say anything;

for they themselves relate concerning us what entering in we had to you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God,

but, having suffered before and been insulted, even as ye know, in Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the glad tidings of God with much earnest striving.

but even as we have been approved of God to have the glad tidings entrusted to us, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who proves our hearts.

For we have not at any time been among you with flattering discourse, even as ye know, nor with a pretext for covetousness, God is witness;

Thus, yearning over you, we had found our delight in having imparted to you not only the glad tidings of God, but our own lives also, because ye had become beloved of us.

For ye remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, not to be chargeable to any one of you, we have preached to you the glad tidings of God.

Ye are witnesses, and God, how piously and righteously and blamelessly we have conducted ourselves with you that believe:

that ye should walk worthy of God, who calls you to his own kingdom and glory.

And for this cause we also give thanks to God unceasingly that, having received the word of the report of God by us, ye accepted, not men's word, but, even as it is truly, God's word, which also works in you who believe.

For ye, brethren, have become imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; for ye also have suffered the same things of your own countrymen as also they of the Jews,

who have both slain the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and have driven us out by persecution, and do not please God, and are against all men,

Wherefore, being no longer able to refrain ourselves, we thought good to be left alone in Athens,

and sent Timotheus, our brother and fellow-workman under God in the glad tidings of Christ, to confirm you and encourage you concerning your faith,

But Timotheus having just come to us from you, and brought to us the glad tidings of your faith and love, and that ye have always good remembrance of us, desiring much to see us, even as we also you;

For what thanksgiving can we render to God for you, for all the joy wherewith we rejoice on account of you before our God,

But our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you.

in order to the confirming of your hearts unblamable in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

For the rest, then, brethren, we beg you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, even as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and please God, even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more.

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;

(not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know not God,)

For God has not called us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.

He therefore that in this disregards his brother, disregards, not man, but God, who has given also his Holy Spirit to you.

Now concerning brotherly love ye have no need that we should write to you, for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

and to seek earnestly to be quiet and mind your own affairs, and work with your own hands, even as we charged you,

For if we believe that Jesus has died and has risen again, so also God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep through Jesus.

for the Lord himself, with an assembling shout, with archangel's voice and with trump of God, shall descend from heaven; and the dead in Christ shall rise first;

because God has not set us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

See that no one render to any evil for evil, but pursue always what is good towards one another and towards all;

in everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus towards you;

Now the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly: and your whole spirit, and soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Paul and Silvanus and Timotheus to the assembly of Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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

We ought to thank God always for you, brethren, even as it is meet, because your faith increases exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all towards one another abounds;

so that we ourselves make our boast in you in the assemblies of God for your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations, which ye are sustaining;

a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that ye should be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for the sake of which ye also suffer;

if at least it is a righteous thing with God to render tribulation to those that trouble you,

in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who know not God, and those who do not obey the glad tidings of our Lord Jesus Christ;

To which end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of the calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness and the 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 of the Lord Jesus Christ.

who opposes and exalts himself on high against all called God, or object of veneration; so that he himself sits down in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

And for this reason God sends to them a working of error, that they should believe what is false,

But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, that God has chosen you from the beginning to salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

But our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us, and given us eternal consolation and good hope by grace,

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

But the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of the Christ.

Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the command of God our Saviour, and of Christ Jesus our hope,

to Timotheus, my true child in faith: grace, mercy, peace, from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

nor to turn their minds to fables and interminable genealogies, which bring questionings rather than further God's dispensation, which is in faith.

But the end of what is enjoined is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and unfeigned faith;

Now we know that the law is good if any one uses it lawfully,

according to the glad tidings of the glory of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted.

Now to the King of the ages, the incorruptible, invisible, only God, honour and glory to the ages of ages. Amen.

This charge, my child Timotheus, I commit to thee, according to the prophecies as to thee preceding, in order that thou mightest war by them the good warfare,

maintaining faith and a good conscience; which last some, having put away, have made shipwreck as to faith;

for kings and all that are in dignity, that we may lead a quiet and tranquil life in all piety and gravity;

for this is good and acceptable before our Saviour God,

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

but, what becomes women making profession of the fear of God, by good works.

The word is faithful: if any one aspires to exercise oversight, he desires a good work.

(but if one does not know how to conduct his own house, how shall he take care of the assembly of God?)

But it is necessary that he should have also a good testimony from those without, that he may fall not into reproach and the snare of the devil.

for those who shall have ministered well obtain for themselves a good degree, and much boldness in faith which is in Christ Jesus.

but if I delay, in order that thou mayest know how one ought to conduct oneself in God's house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and base of the truth.

And confessedly the mystery of piety is great. God has been manifested in flesh, has been justified in the Spirit, has appeared to angels, has been preached among the nations, has been believed on in the world, has been received up in glory.

forbidding to marry, bidding to abstain from meats, which God has created for receiving with thanksgiving for them who are faithful and know the truth.

For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, being received with thanksgiving;

for it is sanctified by God's word and freely addressing him.

Laying these things before the brethren, thou wilt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished with the words of the faith and of the good teaching which thou hast fully followed up.

for, for this we labour and suffer reproach, because we hope in a living God, who is preserver of all men, specially of those that believe.

but if any widow have children or descendants, let them learn first to be pious as regards their own house, and to render a return on their side to their parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

Now she who is a widow indeed, and is left alone, has put her hope in God, and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.

borne witness to in good works, if she have brought up children, if she have exercised hospitality, if she have washed saints' feet, if she have imparted relief to the distressed, if she have diligently followed every good work.

I testify before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels, that thou keep these things without prejudice, doing nothing by favour.

In like manner good works also are manifest beforehand, and those that are otherwise cannot be hid.

Let as many bondmen as are under yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and the teaching be not blasphemed.

And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brethren; but let them the rather serve them with subjection, because they are faithful and beloved, who profit by the good and ready service rendered. These things teach and exhort.

But thou, O man of God, flee these things, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness of spirit.

Strive earnestly in the good conflict of faith. Lay hold of eternal life, to which thou hast been called, and hast confessed the good confession before many witnesses.

I enjoin thee before God who preserves all things in life, and Christ Jesus who witnessed before Pontius Pilate the good confession,

Enjoin on those rich in the present age not to be high-minded, nor to trust on the uncertainty of riches; but in the God who affords us all things richly for our enjoyment;

to do good, to be rich in good works, to be liberal in distributing, disposed to communicate of their substance,

laying by for themselves a good foundation for the future, that they may lay hold of what is really life.

Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ by God's will, according to promise of life, the life which is in Christ Jesus,

to Timotheus, my beloved child: grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father, and Christ Jesus our Lord.