1TH-11 Paul and Silvanus and Timotheus unto the church of the
Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus
Christ Grace be unto you and peace from God our Father and the
Lord Jesus Christ .
1TH-12 We give thanks to God always for you all making mention
of you in our prayers .
1TH-13 Remembering without ceasing your work of faith and
labour of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in
the sight of God and our Father .
1TH-14 Knowing brethren beloved your election of God .
1TH-15 For our gospel came not unto you in word only but also
in power and in the Holy Ghost and in much assurance as ye know
what manner of men we were among you for your sake .
1TH-16 And ye became followers of us and of the Lord having
received the word in much affliction with joy of the Holy Ghost .
1TH-17 So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in
Macedonia and Achaia .
1TH-18 For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only
in Macedonia and Achaia but also in every place your faith to
God-ward is spread abroad so that we need not to speak any thing
.
1TH-19 For they themselves show of us what manner of entering
in we had unto you and how ye turned to God from idols to serve
the living and true God .
1TH-110 And to wait for his Son from heaven whom he raised from
the dead even Jesus which delivered us from the wrath to come .
* 1TH-21 For yourselves brethren know our entrance in unto you
that it was not in vain .
1TH-22 But even after that we had suffered before and were
shamefully entreated as ye know at Philippi we were bold in our
God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention .
1TH-23 For our exhortation was not of deceit nor of uncleanness
nor in guile .
1TH-24 But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with
the gospel even so we speak not as pleasing men but God which
trieth our hearts .
1TH-25 For neither at any time used we flattering words as ye
know nor a cloak of covetousness God is witness .
1TH-26 Nor of men sought we glory neither of you nor yet of
others when we might have been burdensome as the apostles of
Christ .
1TH-27 But we were gentle among you even as a nurse cherisheth
her children .
1TH-28 So being affectionately desirous of you we were willing
to have imparted unto you not the gospel of God only but also
our own souls because ye were dear unto us .
1TH-29 For ye remember brethren our labour and travail for
labouring night and day because we would not be chargeable unto
any of you we preached unto you the gospel of God .
1TH-210 Ye are witnesses and God also how holily and justly and
unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe .
1TH-211 As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged
every one of you as a father doth his children .
1TH-212 That ye would walk worthy of God who hath called you
unto his kingdom and glory .
1TH-213 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing
because when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us ye
received it not as the word of men but as it is in truth the
word of God which effectually worketh also in you that believe .
1TH-214 For ye brethren became followers of the churches of God
which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus for ye also have suffered
like things of your own countrymen even as they have of the Jews
.
1TH-215 Who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets
and have persecuted us and they please not God and are contrary
to all men .
1TH-216 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might
be saved to fill up their sins alway for the wrath is come upon
them to the uttermost .
1TH-217 But we brethren being taken from you for a short time
in presence not in heart endeavoured the more abundantly to see
your face with great desire .
1TH-218 Wherefore we would have come unto you even I Paul once
and again but Satan hindered us .
1TH-219 For what is our hope or joy or crown of rejoicing Are
not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his
coming .
1TH-220 For ye are our glory and joy .
* 1TH-31 Wherefore when we could no longer forbear we thought
it good to be left at Athens alone .
1TH-32 And sent Timotheus our brother and minister of God and
our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ to establish you and
to comfort you concerning your faith .
1TH-33 That no man should be moved by these afflictions for
yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto .
1TH-34 For verily when we were with you we told you before that
we should suffer tribulation even as it came to pass and ye know
.
1TH-35 For this cause when I could no longer forbear I sent to
know your faith lest by some means the tempter have tempted you
and our labour be in vain .
1TH-36 But now when Timotheus came from you unto us and brought
us good tidings of your faith and charity and that ye have good
remembrance of us always desiring greatly to see us as we also
to see you .
1TH-37 Therefore brethren we were comforted over you in all our
affliction and distress by your faith .
1TH-38 For now we live if ye stand fast in the Lord .
1TH-39 For what thanks can we render to God again for you for
all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God .
1TH-310 Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see
your face and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith .
1TH-311 Now God himself and our Father and our Lord Jesus
Christ direct our way unto you .
1TH-312 And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love
one toward another and toward all men even as we do toward you .
1TH-313 To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in
holiness before God even our Father at the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ with all his saints .
* 1TH-41 Furthermore then we beseech you brethren and exhort
you by the Lord Jesus that as ye have received of us how ye
ought to walk and to please God so ye would abound more and more
.
1TH-42 For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord
Jesus .
1TH-43 For this is the will of God even your sanctification
that ye should abstain from fornication .
1TH-44 That every one of you should know how to possess his
vessel in sanctification and honour .
1TH-45 Not in the lust of concupiscence even as the Gentiles
which know not God .
1TH-46 That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any
matter because that the Lord is the avenger of all such as we
also have forewarned you and testified .
1TH-47 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness but unto
holiness .
1TH-48 He therefore that despiseth despiseth not man but God
who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit .
1TH-49 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write
unto you for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another
.
1TH-410 And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are
in all Macedonia but we beseech you brethren that ye increase
more and more .
1TH-411 And that ye study to be quiet and to do your own
business and to work with your own hands as we commanded you .
1TH-412 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without
and that ye may have lack of nothing .
1TH-413 But I would not have you to be ignorant brethren
concerning them which are asleep that ye sorrow not even as
others which have no hope .
1TH-414 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again even
so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him .
1TH-415 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord that
we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall
not prevent them which are asleep .
1TH-416 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a
shout with the voice of the archangel and with the trump of God
and the dead in Christ shall rise first .
1TH-417 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up
together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and
so shall we ever be with the Lord .
1TH-418 Wherefore comfort one another with these words .
* 1TH-51 But of the times and the seasons brethren ye have no
need that I write unto you .
1TH-52 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord
so cometh as a thief in the night .
1TH-53 For when they shall say Peace and safety then sudden
destruction cometh upon them as travail upon a woman with child
and they shall not escape .
1TH-54 But ye brethren are not in darkness that that day should
overtake you as a thief .
1TH-55 Ye are all the children of light and the children of the
day we are not of the night nor of darkness .
1TH-56 Therefore let us not sleep as do others but let us watch
and be sober .
1TH-57 For they that sleep sleep in the night and they that be
drunken are drunken in the night .
1TH-58 But let us who are of the day be sober putting on the
breastplate of faith and love and for an helmet the hope of
salvation .
1TH-59 For God hath not appointed us to wrath but to obtain
salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ .
1TH-510 Who died for us that whether we wake or sleep we should
live together with him .
1TH-511 Wherefore comfort yourselves together and edify one
another even as also ye do .
1TH-512 And we beseech you brethren to know them which labour
among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you .
1TH-513 And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's
sake And be at peace among yourselves .
1TH-514 Now we exhort you brethren warn them that are unruly
comfort the feebleminded support the weak be patient toward all
men .
1TH-515 See that none render evil for evil unto any man but
ever follow that which is good both among yourselves and to all
men .
1TH-516 Rejoice evermore .
1TH-517 Pray without ceasing .
1TH-518 In every thing give thanks for this is the will of God
in Christ Jesus concerning you .
1TH-519 Quench not the Spirit .
1TH-520 Despise not prophesyings .
1TH-521 Prove all things hold fast that which is good .
1TH-522 Abstain from all appearance of evil .
1TH-523 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly and I
pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved
blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ .
1TH-524 Faithful is he that calleth you who also will do it .
1TH-525 Brethren pray for us .
1TH-526 Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss .
1TH-527 I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto
all the holy brethren .
1TH-528 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you Amen .
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