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1 Thessalonians
1:1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians .
1:2 We give thanks to God alion of you in our prayers;
1:3 Remembering her;
1:4 Knoion of God.
1:5 For ospel came not unto you inmanner of men we were among you for your sake.
1:6 And ye became follo.
1:7 So that yebelieve in Maia and Achaia.
1:8 For from you sounded out the hing.
1:9 For they themselves sherue God;
1:10 And to oe.
2:1 For yourselves, brethren, kno in vain:
2:2 But even after that ion.
2:3 For our exhortation , nor of unness, nor in guile:
2:4 But as s.
2:5 For her at any time used ness:
2:6 Nor of men sought .
2:7 But h her children:
2:8 So being affeately desirous of you, o us.
2:9 For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for lab night and day, because he gospel of God.
2:10 Ye arebelieve:
2:11 As ye knoh his children,
2:12 That ye o his kingdom and glory.
2:13 For this cause also thankbelieve.
2:14 For ye, brethren, became follohe Jews:
2:15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their oo all men:
2:16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gehat they might be saved, to fill up their sins al.
2:17 Butdesire.
2:18 Wherefore an hindered us.
2:19 Forhising?
2:20 For ye are lory and joy.
3:1 Wherefore hens alone;
3:2 Aimotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our felloh:
3:3 That no man should be moved by these afflis: for yourselves knoo.
3:4 For verily, o pass, and ye know.
3:5 For this cause, ed you, and our labour be in vain.
3:6 But noo see you:
3:7 Therefore, brethren, h:
3:8 For nohe Lord.
3:9 For h we joy for your sakes before od;
3:10 Night and day praying exceedingly that h?
3:11 Noo you.
3:12 And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love oooward you:
3:13 To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness befod, even our Father, at theing of our Lord Jesus Christ s.
4:1 Furthermore then o please God, so ye would abound more and more.
4:2 For ye knohe Lord Jesus.
4:3 For this is the ion:
4:4 That every one of you should knoion and honour;
4:5 Not in the lust of cupisce, even as the GentilesGod:
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 ified.
4:7 Fod hath not called us unto unness, but unto holiness.
4:8 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, .
4:9 But as toug brotherly love ye need not that I her.
4:10 And indeed ye do it to ye increase more and more;
4:11 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your oh your own hands, as wemanded you;
4:12 That ye may hing.
4:13 But I hers which have no hope.
4:14 For if h him.
4:15 For this hem which are asleep.
4:16 For the Lord himself shall desd from heaven :
4:17 Then he Lord.
4:18 Whereforefort one another hese words.
5:1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have hat I o you.
5:2 For yourselves kno.
5:3 Forescape.
5:4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5:5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: , nor of darkness.
5:6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us d be sober.
5:7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
5:8 But let us, ion.
5:9 Fod hath not appointed us to ,
5:10 Who died for us, that, h him.
5:11 Whereforefort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
5:12 And he Lord, and admonish you;
5:13 And to esteem them very highly in love for theirpeace among yourselves.
5:14 Nooward all men.
5:15 See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever folloo all men.
5:16 Rejoice evermore.
5:17 Prayceasing.
5:18 Ihing give thanks: for this is theJesus ing you.
5:19 Quenot the Spirit.
5:20 Despise not prophesyings.
5:21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
5:22 Abstain from all appearance of evil.
5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you .
5:24 Faithful is he that calleth you, .
5:25 Brethren, pray for us.
5:26 Greet all the brethren h an holy kiss.
5:27 I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren.
5:28 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be h you. Amen.