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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. 1:4 Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.
5. 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.
6. 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:
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. 2:2 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. 2:3 For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
11. 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.
12. 2:5 For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:
13. 2:6 Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.
14. 2:8 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.
15. 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.
16. 2:11 As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,
17. 2:12 That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
18. 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.
19. 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:
20. 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?
21. 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:
22. 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:
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. 4:1 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.
25. 4:3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
26. 4:4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
27. 4:5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
28. 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.
29. 4:9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
30. 4:12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
31. 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.
32. 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:
33. 5:1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
34. 5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
35. 5:5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
36. 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.
37. 5:18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
38. 5:22 Abstain from all appearance of evil.
39. 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.
40. 5:28 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.