BLB 1TH book

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1 Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace. 2 We give thanks to God always concerning all of you, making mention in our prayers, 3 remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and unceasing labor of love, and the endurance of the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, 4 knowing, brothers beloved by God, your election, 5 because our gospel came to you not in word only, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit, and with much full assurance, just as you know what we were among you on account of you. 6 And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much tribulation, with the joy of the Holy Spirit, 7 so as for you to became an example to all the believing ones in Macedonia and in Achaia. 8 For not only has the word of the Lord sounded forth from you in Macedonia and in Achaia, but in every place your faith toward God has gone abroad, so as for us to have no need to say anything. 9 For they themselves report concerning us what reception we had from you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God, 10 and to await His Son from the heavens, whom He raised out from the dead--Jesus, the one delivering us from the coming wrath. 2 For you yourselves know, brothers, that our coming to you has not been in vain. 2 But having previously suffered and having been mistreated in Philippi, just as you know, we had boldness in our God to speak to you the gospel of God amid much conflict. 3 For our exhortation was not of error, nor of impurity, nor in trickery; 4 but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, the One examining our hearts. 5 For never at any time were we with word of flattery, just as you know, nor with a pretext for greed--God is witness-- 6 nor seeking glory from men, nor from you, nor from others, though having authority with weight to be, as apostles of Christ. 7 But we were gentle in your midst, as a nursing mother would cherish her own children. 8 So yearning over you, we were pleased to have imparted to you not only the gospel of God, but also our own lives, because you have become beloved to us. 9 For you remember, brothers, our labor and hardship: Working night and day in order not to burden any one of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God. 10 You are witnesses, and God, how holily and righteously and blamelessly we behaved toward you, those believing, 11 just as you know how each one of you, as a father his own children, 12 we were exhorting and comforting you and charging unto you to walk worthily of God, who calls you into His kingdom and glory. 13 And because of this, we also give thanks to God unceasingly that, having received the word of God by your hearing from us, you accepted not the word of men, but even as truly it is, the word of God, which also works in you who believe. 14 For you became imitators, brothers, of the churches of God in Judea being in Christ Jesus. For the same as them, you also suffered from the own countrymen as they also did from the Jews, 15 who having killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and having driven us out, and not pleasing God, are also set against all men, 16 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, so as always to fill up their sins. Now the wrath has come upon them to the utmost. 17 But we, having been bereaved of you, brothers, for the time of an hour--in face, not in heart--were more abundantly eager with great desire to see your face. 18 Therefore we wanted to come to you--indeed I Paul, both once and twice--and Satan hindered us. 19 For who is our hope or joy or crown of boasting? Or are not even you, before our Lord Jesus at His coming? 20 For you are our glory and joy. 3 Therefore, enduring no longer, we thought it best to be left in Athens alone, 2 and we sent Timothy, our brother and fellow worker of God in the gospel of Christ, in order to strengthen and to encourage you concerning your faith, 3 that no one be moved in these tribulations. For you yourselves know that we are destined for this. 4 And indeed, when we were with you, we were telling you beforehand that we are about to suffer affliction, just as also it came to pass, and you know. 5 Because of this I also, enduring no longer, sent in order to know your faith, lest somehow the one tempting had tempted you, and our labor would be in vain. 6 But presently, Timothy having come to us from you and having brought good news to us of your faith and love, and that always you have a good remembrance of us, longing to see us just as also we you, 7 because of this, brothers, we were encouraged as to you in all our distress and tribulation, through your faith. 8 For now we live, if you are standing firm in the Lord. 9 For what thanksgiving are we able to give to God concerning you in return for all the joy that we rejoice before our God because of you, 10 night and day imploring exceedingly for us to see your face and to supply the things lacking of you in faith? 11 Now may our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you. 12 And may the Lord make you to increase and to abound in love toward one another, and toward all, just as also we toward you, 13 in order to strengthen your hearts, blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints. Amen. 4 Finally then, brothers, we implore and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that just as you have received from us in what manner it behooves you to walk and to please God, just as even you walk now, so you should abound more. 2 For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus. 3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: You are to abstain from sexual immorality; 4 each of you to know how to win mastery over his own vessel in holiness and honor, 5 not in the passion of lust, as also the Gentiles, not knowing God; 6 not to go beyond and to overreach his brother in the matter, because the Lord is avenging concerning all these things, just as also we told you before and thoroughly warned. 7 For God has not called us to impurity, but into holiness. 8 So then, the one rejecting this does not disregard man but God, the One also giving His Holy Spirit to you. 9 Now concerning brotherly love, you have no need for me to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God in order to love one another. 10 And indeed you are doing this toward all the brothers, the ones in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, to abound more and more, 11 and to strive earnestly to live quietly and to attend to your own matters, and to work with your own hands, just as we commanded you, 12 so that you may walk properly toward those outside, and may have need of no one. 13 But we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those having fallen asleep, so that you should not be grieved, just as also the rest, those having no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with Him those having fallen asleep. 15 For this we declare to you in the word of the Lord, that we the living, remaining unto the coming of the Lord, shall not precede those having fallen asleep, 16 because the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we, the living remaining, will be caught away together with them in the clouds for the meeting of the Lord in the air; and so we will be always with the Lord. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words. 5 Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to be written to you. 2 For you yourselves fully know that the day of the Lord comes in this manner, as a thief by night. 3 For when they might say, "Peace and security," then suddenly destruction comes upon them, as the labor pains to her having in womb; and they shall not escape. 4 But you, brothers, are not in darkness, so that the day should overtake you like a thief. 5 For you are all sons of light and sons of day; we are not of night nor of darkness. 6 So then we should not sleep as the others, but we should watch and we should be sober. 7 For those sleeping, sleep by night; and those becoming drunk, get drunk by night. 8 But we being of the day should be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and the helmet, the hope of salvation, 9 because God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 the One having died for us, so that whether we might watch or we might sleep, we may live together with Him. 11 Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as also you are doing. 12 But we implore you, brothers, to appreciate those toiling among you, and taking the lead over you in the Lord, and admonishing you, 13 and to esteem them exceedingly in love, because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves. 14 And we exhort you, brothers, to admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient toward all. 15 See that no one has repaid to anyone evil for evil, but always pursue the good also toward one another and toward all. 16 Rejoice always. 17 Pray unceasingly. 18 Give thanks in everything, for this is the will of God toward you in Christ Jesus. 19 Do not quench the Spirit. 20 Do not despise prophecies, 21 but test all things. Hold fast to the good. 22 Abstain from every form of evil. 23 Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely, and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved, entirely blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24 The One calling you is faithful, who also will do it. 25 Brothers, pray also for us. 26 Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss. 27 I adjure you by the Lord, this letter to be read to all the brothers. 28 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.