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{\MT Paul’s First Letter to the Thessalonians

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{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.
\VS{2}We
give praise
to
God
at
all
times
for
you, keeping
you
in memory
in
our
prayers;
\VS{3}Having ever
in
mind
your
work
of
faith
and acts
of
love
and
the strength
of
your
hope
in
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ,
before
our
God
and
Father;
\VS{4}Being conscious,
my
brothers, dear
to
God,
that
you
have been marked out
by God's purpose;
\VS{5}Because
our
good
news
came
to
you,
not
in
word
only,
but
in
power,
and
in
the
Holy
Spirit,
so
that
you
were
completely certain
of
it;
even
as
you
saw
what
our behaviour
to
you
was
like
from
our love
to
you.
\VS{6}And
you
took
us
and
the
Lord
as
your example,
after
the
word
had
come
to
you
in
much
trouble,
with
joy
in
the
Holy
Spirit;
\VS{7}So
that
you
became
an example
to
all
those
who
have
faith
in Christ
in
Macedonia
and
Achaia.
\VS{8}For
not
only
was
the
word
of
the
Lord sounding
out
from
you
in
Macedonia
and
Achaia,
but
in
every
place
your
faith
in
God
is
made clear;
so
that
we
have
no
need
to
say
anything.
\VS{9}For
they
themselves give
the news
of
how
we came
among
you;
and
how
you
were
turned
from images
to
God,
to
the worship
of
a
true
and
living
God,
\VS{10}Waiting
for
his
Son
from
heaven,
who
came back
from
the
dead,
even
Jesus,
our Saviour
from
the
wrath
to
come.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}For
you
yourselves,
brothers,
are conscious
that
our
coming
among
you
was
not
without effect:
\VS{2}But
after
we
had first undergone
much pain
and
been cruelly attacked
as
you
saw,
at
Philippi,
by
the help
of
God
we gave
you
the
good
news
without fear,
though everything
was
against
us.
\VS{3}For
our witness
does
not
come
from
error
or
from
an
unclean heart
or
from
deceit:
\VS{4}But even
as
the
good
news
was given
to us
by
the
approval
of
God,
so
we give
it out;
not
as
pleasing
men,
but
God
by
whom
our
hearts
are
tested.
\VS{5}For it
is common knowledge
among
you
that
we
never
made use
of smooth-sounding false
words,
and
God
is
witness
that
at
no
time
were
we secretly desiring profit
for ourselves,
\VS{6}Or
looking
for
glory
from
men,
from
you
or
from
others,
when
we
might
have
made ourselves
a care
to
you
as
Apostles
of
Christ.
\VS{7}But
we
were
gentle
among
you,
like
a woman
caring
for
her little ones:
\VS{8}Even
so,
being full
of loving desire
for
you,
we
took delight
in giving
you
not
only God's
good
news,
but
even
our
lives,
because
you
were
dear
to us.
\VS{9}For
you
have
the memory,
my
brothers,
of
our
trouble
and care; how, working
night
and
day,
so
that
we
might
not
be
a
trouble
to
any
of
you,
we gave
you
the
good
news
of
God.
\VS{10}You
are
witnesses,
with
God,
how holy
and
upright
and free
from
all evil
was
our
way
of life among
you
who
have
faith;
\VS{11}Even
as
you
saw
how,
like
a
father
with
his
children,
we
were teaching
and comforting
you all,
and giving witness,
\VS{12}So
that
your lives
might
be pleasing
to
God,
who
has
given
you
a part
in
his
kingdom
and
his
glory.
\VS{13}And
for
this cause
we still
give praise
to
God,
that,
when
the
word
came
to
your
ears
through
us,
you
took
it,
not
as
the
word
of
man,
but,
as
it
truly
is,
the
word
of
God,
which
has living power
in
you
who
have
faith.
\VS{14}For
you,
my
brothers,
took
as
your examples
the
churches
of
God
which
are
in Judaea
in
Christ
Jesus;
because
you underwent
the
same
things
from
your
countrymen
as
they
did
from
the
Jews;
\VS{15}Who
put
to
death
the
Lord
Jesus
and
the
prophets, violently driving us out;
who
are unpleasing
to
God
and
against
all
men;
\VS{16}Who,
to make
the
measure
of
their
sins
complete,
kept
us
from giving
the word
of
salvation
to
the
Gentiles:
but
the
wrath
of
God
is
about
to
come
on
them
in
the fullest degree.
\VS{17}But
we,
my
brothers,
being
away
from
you
for
a short
time,
in body
but
not
in
heart,
had
all
the
more
desire
to
see
your
face;
\VS{18}For
which reason
we made attempts
to
come
to
you,
even
I,
Paul,
once
and
again;
but
Satan
kept us
from
coming.
\VS{19}For
what
is
our
hope
or
joy
or
crown
of glory?
Are
not
even
you,
before
our
Lord
Jesus,
at
his
coming?
\VS{20}For
you
are
our
glory
and
our
joy.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}At last
our desire
to have news
of
you
was
so strong
that,
while
we ourselves were waiting
at
Athens,
\VS{2}We
sent
Timothy,
our
brother
and God's
servant
in
the
good
news
of
Christ,
to give
you strength
and
comfort
in
your
faith;
\VS{3}So
that
no
man might
be moved
by
these
troubles;
because
you
see
that
these
things
are
part
of God's
purpose
for
us.
\VS{4}And
when
we
were
with
you,
we
said
to
you
that trouble
was
before us;
and
so
it
came
about,
as
you
see.
\VS{5}For
this
reason,
when
I
was
no
longer able
to
keep quiet,
I
sent
to
get news
of
your
faith, fearing
that
you
might
be
tested
by
the Evil
One
and
that
our
work
might
come
to
nothing.
\VS{6}But
now
that
Timothy
has
come
to
us
from
you,
and
has
given
us
good
news
of
your
faith
and
love,
and
that
you
have happy memories
of
us, desiring greatly
to
see
us,
even
as
we
do
to
see
you;
\VS{7}For
this cause,
brothers,
in
all
our
trouble
and grief
we
were
comforted
about
you
because
of
your
faith;
\VS{8}For
it
is
life
to
us
if
you keep
your faith
in
the
Lord unchanged.
\VS{9}For
how
great
is
the praise
which
we give
to
God
for
you,
and
how
great
the
joy
with
which
we
are
glad
because
of
you
before
our
God;
\VS{10}Night
and
day requesting
God
again
and
again
that
we
may
see
your
face
and make
your
faith
complete.
\VS{11}Now
may
our
God
and
Father
himself
and
our
Lord
Jesus make
a
way
for us
to come
to
you;
\VS{12}And
the
Lord give
you
increase
of
love
in fullest measure
to
one
another
and
to
all
men,
even
as
our
love
to
you;
\VS{13}So
that
your
hearts
may
be strong
and free
from
all sin
before
our
God
and
Father,
at
the
coming
of
our
Lord
Jesus
with
all
his
saints.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And last
of
all,
the prayer
which
we
make
to
you
from
our heart
and
in
the name
of
the
Lord
Jesus,
is
this:
that
as
we made clear
to
you
what sort
of behaviour
is
pleasing
to
God,
as
in fact
you
are doing
now,
so
you
will go
on
in
these ways,
but
more
and
more.
\VS{2}Because
you
have
in mind
the
orders
we
gave
you
through
the
Lord
Jesus.
\VS{3}For
the purpose
of
God
for
you
is
this:
that
you
may
be holy,
and
may keep
yourselves
from
the
desires
of
the flesh;
\VS{4}So
that
every
one
of
you
may keep
his
body holy
and
in honour;
\VS{5}Not
in
the
passion
of evil
desires,
like
the
Gentiles,
who
have
no knowledge
of
God;
\VS{6}And
that
no
man
may
make attempts
to get
the better
of
his
brother
in business:
for
the
Lord
is
the judge
in
all
these
things,
as
we
said
to
you
before
and gave witness.
\VS{7}Because
it
is God's purpose
that
our
way
of life
may
be
not
unclean
but holy.
\VS{8}Whoever,
then, goes
against
this word, goes
against
not
man
but
God,
who
gives
his
Holy
Spirit
to
you.
\VS{9}But
about loving
the brothers,
there
is
no
need
for
me
to say anything
to
you
in
this
letter:
for
you
have
the teaching
of
God
that
love
for
one
another
is
right
and
necessary;
\VS{10}And,
truly,
you
are lovers
of
all
the
brothers
in
Macedonia;
but
it
is
our desire
that
your love
may
be increased
still
more;
\VS{11}And that
you
may take pride
in
being
quiet
and
doing
your business, working
with
your
hands
as
we
gave
you
orders;
\VS{12}That
you
may
be respected
by
those
who
are
outside,
and
may
have
need
of
nothing.
\VS{13}But
it
is
our
desire,
brothers,
that
you
may
be certain
about
those
who
are
sleeping;
so
that
you
may
have
no
need
for
sorrow,
as
others
have
who
are
without
hope.
\VS{14}For
if
we
have
faith
that
Jesus underwent
death
and
came
back
again,
even
so
those
who
are
sleeping
will
come
again
with
him
by God's power.
\VS{15}For
this
we
say
to
you
by
the
word
of
the
Lord,
that
we
who
are still
living
at
the
coming
of
the
Lord,
will
not go
before
those
who
are
sleeping.
\VS{16}Because
the
Lord
himself
will
come
down
from
heaven
with
a word
of authority,
with
the
voice
of
the chief angel,
with
the
sound
of
a horn:
and
the
dead
in
Christ
will
come
to life
first;
\VS{17}Then
we
who
are still
living
will
be taken
up
together
with
them
into
the
clouds
to see
the
Lord
in
the
air:
and
so
will
we
be
for ever
with
the
Lord.
\VS{18}So
then, give
comfort
to
one
another
with
these
words.

\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}But
about
the
times
and
their order,
my
brothers,
there
is
no
need
for
me
to say anything
to
you.
\VS{2}For
you
yourselves
have
the knowledge
that
the
day
of
the
Lord
will
come
like
a
thief
in
the
night.
\VS{3}When
they
say,
There
is
peace
and
no danger,
then
sudden
destruction
will
come
on
them,
as birth-pains
on
a woman
with child;
and
they
will
not
be
able
to
get away
from
it.
\VS{4}But
you,
my
brothers,
are
not
in
the dark,
for
that
day
to
overtake
you
like
a
thief:
\VS{5}For
you
are
all
sons
of
light
and
of
the
day:
we
are
not
of
the
night
or
of
the dark.
\VS{6}So
then,
let us
not take
our
rest
as
the
others
do,
but
let us
be self-controlled
and
awake.
\VS{7}For
those
who
are
sleeping
do
so
in
the
night;
and
those
who
are
the worse
for drink
are
so
in
the
night;
\VS{8}But
let us,
who
are
of
the
day,
be serious, putting
on
the
breastplate
of
faith
and
love,
and
on
our heads,
the
hope
of
salvation.
\VS{9}For God's purpose
for
us
is
not
wrath,
but
salvation
through
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ,
\VS{10}Who
was
put
to
death
for
us,
so
that,
awake
or
sleeping,
we
may
have
a
part
in
his
life.
\VS{11}So
then, go
on comforting
and
building
up
one
another,
as
you
have
been
doing.
\VS{12}But
we
make
this
request
to
you,
my
brothers:
give attention
to
those
who
are
working
among
you,
who
are
over
you
in
the
Lord
to keep order
among
you;
\VS{13}And
have
a high opinion
of
them
in
love
because
of
their
work.
Be
at
peace
among
yourselves.
\VS{14}And
our desire
is
that
you
will keep control over
those whose lives
are not well ordered, giving
comfort
to
the feeble-hearted, supporting
those
with little strength,
and putting up
with much
from
all.
\VS{15}Let
no
one
give
evil
for
evil;
but ever go
after
what
is
good,
for
one
another
and
for
all.
\VS{16}Have
joy at
all
times.
\VS{17}Keep on
with your
prayers.
\VS{18}In
everything
give praise:
for
this
is
the purpose
of
God
in
Christ
Jesus
for
you.
\VS{19}Do
not
put
out
the light
of
the
Spirit;
\VS{20}Do
not
make little
of
the words
of
the prophets;
\VS{21}Let
all
things
be
tested;
keep
to
what
is
good;
\VS{22}Keep
from
every
form
of
evil.
\VS{23}And
may
the
God
of
peace
himself
make
you
holy
in every
way;
and
may
your
spirit
and
soul
and
body
be free
from
all sin
at
the
coming
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ.
\VS{24}God,
by
whom
you
have
been marked
out
in
his
purpose,
is unchanging
and
will
make
it complete.
\VS{25}Brothers, keep
us
in mind
in
your
prayers.
\VS{26}Give
all
the
brothers
a
holy
kiss.
\VS{27}I give orders
in
the name
of
the
Lord
that
all
the
brothers
are
to
be present
at
the
reading
of
this
letter.
\VS{28}The
grace
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ
be
with
you.
\par }