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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. 1:3 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;
3. 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.
4. 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:
5. 1:7 So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.
6. 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.
7. 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;
8. 1:10 And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
9. 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.
10. 2:9 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.
11. 2:10 Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:
12. 2:11 As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,
13. 2:12 That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
14. 2:15 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:
15. 2:18 Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.
16. 2:20 For ye are our glory and joy.
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. 3:4 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.
19. 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.
20. 3:6 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:
21. 3:7 Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:
22. 3:10 Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
23. 3:11 Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.
24. 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:
25. 4:1 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.
26. 4:4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
27. 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.
28. 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;
29. 4:11 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
30. 4:12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
31. 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.
32. 4:15 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.
33. 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:
34. 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.
35. 5:1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
36. 5:3 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.
37. 5:5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
38. 5:6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
39. 5:7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
40. 5:8 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.
41. 5:11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
42. 5:12 And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
43. 5:13 And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves.
44. 5:15 See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.
45. 5:23 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.