Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, to the church of the 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 in our prayers;

incessantly remembering your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, before God even our Father;

knowing, brethren beloved of God, your election,

For from you the word of the Lord echoed out, not only in Macedonia and in Achaia, but in every place your faith which is towards God has gone forth; so that we have no need to say any thing:

for they proclaim concerning what kind of reception we had unto you; and how you turned to God from the idols, to serve the true and the living God,

but having suffered, and been abused, as you know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God in much conflict.

but as we were approved of God that the gospel should be intrusted unto us, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God who is proving our hearts,

For at that time we were not in word of flattery, as you know, nor in a pretext of covetousness, God is our witness;

being so desirous of you, that we are anxious not only to give the gospel of God, but our own souls, because you are beloved unto us.

For you remember, brethren, our labor and toil: night and day working, that we should burden no one of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

You are witnesses, and God, how sacredly and righteously and blamelessly we were unto you who believed:

and testifying, that you walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.

And on account of this we also give thanks to God incessantly, because, receiving the word of God from us by hearing, you received it not as the word of men, but, as it truly is, the word of God, who indeed works in you who believe.

For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Jesus Christ: because you suffered the same things from your fellow tribes, as they also from the Jews;

who even killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and persecuted us, and are displeasing to God, and hostile to all men;

and we sent Timothy, our brother and minister of God in the gospel of Christ, in order to establish you, and exhort you concerning your faith;

But Timothy, having already come to us from you, and proclaimed to us the good news of your faith and your divine love, and that you always have a good mention of us, longing to see us, as we do to see you;

For what thanks are we able to render unto God in your behalf, for all the joy with which we rejoice on account of you before our God;

But God himself, even our Father, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way unto you:

in order to establish your hearts blameless in holiness in the presence of God even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints: amen.

Finally therefore, brethren, we pray you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how it behooves you to walk about and to please God, as you do indeed walk about, in order that you may abound more and more.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you abstain from fornication;

not in the passion of lust, as indeed the Gentiles who do not know God;

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

Therefore the one rejecting (sanctification), does not reject man, but God, who indeed gives to you his Holy Spirit.

But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I write to you: for you yourselves are taught of God to love one another with divine love;

and that you aspire to be quiet, and to prosecute your own employments, and work with your hands, as we proclaimed unto you;

For if we believe that Jesus died and is risen, so also will God bring with him those who sleep in Jesus.

because the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first;

For those sleeping, sleep in the night; and those who are drunken, get drunk in the night:

because God did not put us forth unto wrath, but unto the obtainment of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

See that no one may return evil for evil to any one; but always pursue good toward one another, and toward all.

in every thing give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus towards you.

And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless, in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.