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1 Thessalonians

1. 1:1 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.
2. 1:2 We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;
3. 1:3 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;
4. 1:5 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.
5. 1:6 And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:
6. 1:7 So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.
7. 1:8 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.
8. 1:9 For they themselves shew 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;
9. 2:1 For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain:
10. 2:2 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.
11. 2:3 For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
12. 2:4 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.
13. 2:13 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.
14. 2:14 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:
15. 2:17 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.
16. 2:19 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?
17. 3:2 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:
18. 3:5 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.
19. 3:7 Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:
20. 3:8 For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.
21. 3:10 Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
22. 3:12 And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
23. 3:13 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.
24. 4:4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
25. 4:5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
26. 4:6 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.
27. 4:10 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;
28. 4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
29. 4:16 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:
30. 4:17 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.
31. 5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
32. 5:4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
33. 5:7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
34. 5:12 And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
35. 5:13 And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves.
36. 5:18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.