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{\MT Paul’s First Letter to the Thessalonians

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Paul
and Sylvanus
and
Timothy:
to
the
church
of
the
Thessalonians,
in
God
the
Father,
and
in
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ.
\VS{2}Grace
be
to
you
and peace.
We
give
thanks
to
God
always
for
you
all;
making
a
remembrance
of
you
in
our
prayers
without
ceasing,
\VS{3}Being mindful
of
the
work
of
your
faith,
and labour,
and charity,
and
of
the
enduring
of
the
hope
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ
before
God
and
our
Father:
\VS{4}Knowing,
brethren
beloved
of
God,
your
election:
\VS{5}For
our
gospel hath
not
been unto
you
in
word
only,
but
in
power
also,
and
in
the
Holy Ghost,
and
in
much fulness,
as
you
know
what manner
of
men
we
have
been
among
you
for
your
sakes.
\VS{6}And
you
became followers
of
us,
and
of
the
Lord; receiving
the
word
in
much
tribulation,
with
joy
of
the
Holy Ghost:
\VS{7}So
that
you
were
made
a
pattern
to
all
that
believe
in
Macedonia
and
in
Achaia.
\VS{8}For
from
you
was
spread abroad
the
word
of
the
Lord,
not
only
in
Macedonia,
and
in
Achaia,
but
also
in
every
place,
your
faith
which
is towards
God,
is
gone
forth,
so
that
we
need
not
to
speak
any
thing.
\VS{9}For
they
themselves relate
of
us,
what manner
of entering
in
we
had unto
you;
and
how
you
turned
to
God
from
idols,
to
serve
the
living
and
true
God.
\VS{10}And
to
wait
for
his
Son
from
heaven (whom
he
raised
up
from
the
dead,)
Jesus,
who hath
delivered
us
from
the
wrath
to
come.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}For
yourselves
know,
brethren,
our
entrance
in unto
you,
that
it
was
not
in
vain:
\VS{2}But having suffered
many
things
before,
and
been shamefully treated (as
you
know)
at
Philippi,
we
had
confidence
in
our
God,
to
speak unto
you
the
gospel
of
God
in
much carefulness.
\VS{3}For
our
exhortation
was
not
of
error,
nor
of
uncleanness,
nor
in
deceit:
\VS{4}But
as
we
were approved
by
God
that
the
gospel
should
be committed
to us: even
so
we
speak,
not
as
pleasing
men,
but
God,
who proveth
our
hearts.
\VS{5}For
neither
have
we used,
at
any
time,
the
speech
of flattery,
as
you
know;
nor
taken
an occasion
of
covetousness,
God
is
witness:
\VS{6}Nor
sought
we
glory
of
men,
neither
of
you,
nor
of
others.
\VS{7}Whereas
we
might
have
been burdensome
to
you,
as
the
apostles
of
Christ:
but
we
became little ones
in
the
midst
of
you,
as
if
a nurse should cherish
her
children:
\VS{8}So desirous
of
you,
we
would
gladly
impart unto
you
not
only
the
gospel
of
God,
but
also
our
own
souls:
because
you
were
become most
dear unto us.
\VS{9}For
you
remember,
brethren,
our labour
and
toil: working
night
and
day,
lest
we
should
be chargeable
to
any
of
you,
we
preached
among
you
the
gospel
of
God.
\VS{10}You
are
witnesses,
and
God
also,
how holily,
and
justly,
and
without
blame,
we
have
been
to
you
that
have
believed:
\VS{11}As
you
know
in
what manner, entreating
and comforting
you, (as
a
father doth
his
children,)
\VS{12}We testified
to every
one
of
you,
that
you
would
walk
worthy
of
God,
who hath
called
you unto
his
kingdom
and
glory.
\VS{13}Therefore,
we
also
give
thanks
to
God
without
ceasing:
because,
that
when
you
had
received
of
us
the
word
of
the
hearing
of
God,
you
received
it
not
as
the
word
of
men,
but (as
it
is
indeed)
the
word
of
God,
who worketh
in
you
that
have
believed.
\VS{14}For
you,
brethren,
are
become followers
of
the
churches
of
God
which
are
in
Judea,
in
Christ
Jesus:
for
you
also
have
suffered
the
same
things
from
your
own coutrymen,
even
as
they
have
from
the
Jews,
\VS{15}Who
both
killed
the
Lord
Jesus,
and
the
prophets,
and
have
persecuted us,
and
please
not
God,
and
are adversaries
to
all
men;
\VS{16}Prohibiting
us
to
speak
to
the
Gentiles,
that
they
may
be
saved,
to
fill
up
their
sins
always:
for
the
wrath
of
God
is
come
upon
them
to
the
end.
\VS{17}But
we,
brethren,
being
taken
away
from
you
for
a short
time,
in
sight,
not
in
heart,
have hastened
the
more abundantly
to
see
your
face
with
great
desire.
\VS{18}For
we
would
have
come unto
you,
I
Paul
indeed,
once
and
again:
but
Satan hath
hindered us.
\VS{19}For
what
is
our
hope,
or
joy,
or
crown
of glory?
Are
not
you,
in
the
presence
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ
at
his
coming?
\VS{20}For
you
are
our
glory
and
joy.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}For which cause, forbearing
no
longer,
we
thought
it
good
to remain
at
Athens
alone:
\VS{2}And
we
sent
Timothy,
our
brother,
and
the
minister
of
God
in
the
gospel
of
Christ,
to
confirm
you
and
exhort
you
concerning
your
faith:
\VS{3}That
no
man
should
be moved
in
these
tribulations:
for
yourselves
know,
that
we
are
appointed thereunto.
\VS{4}For
even
when
we
were
with
you,
we foretold
you
that
we
should
suffer tribulations,
as
also
it
is
come
to
pass,
and
you
know.
\VS{5}For
this cause
also,
I, forbearing
no
longer,
sent
to
know
your
faith:
lest perhaps
he
that tempteth
should
have
tempted
you,
and
our labour
should
be
made
vain.
\VS{6}But
now
when
Timothy
came
to
us
from
you,
and related
to
us
your
faith
and charity,
and
that
you
have
a
good
remembrance
of
us
always, desiring
to
see
us
as
we
also
to
see
you;
\VS{7}Therefore
we
were
comforted,
brethren,
in
you,
in
all
our
necessity
and
tribulation,
by
your
faith,
\VS{8}Because
now
we
live,
if
you
stand
in
the
Lord.
\VS{9}For
what
thanks
can
we
return
to
God
for
you,
in
all
the
joy wherewith
we
rejoice
for
you
before
our
God,
\VS{10}Night
and
day
more
abundantly
praying
that
we
may
see
your
face,
and
may accomplish
those
things
that
are wanting
to
your
faith?
\VS{11}Now
God
himself
and
our
Father,
and
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ,
direct
our
way unto
you.
\VS{12}And
may
the
Lord
multiply
you,
and
make
you
abound
in charity towards
one
another,
and towards
all
men:
as
we
do
also towards
you,
\VS{13}To
confirm
your
hearts
without
blame,
in
holiness,
before
God
and
our
Father,
at
the
coming
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ,
with
all
his
saints.
Amen.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}For
the rest
therefore,
brethren,
we
pray
and beseech
you
in
the
Lord
Jesus,
that
as
you
have
received
from
us,
how
you
ought
to
walk,
and
to
please
God,
so
also
you
would
walk,
that
you
may
abound
the
more.
\VS{2}For
you
know
what precepts
I
have
given
to
you
by
the
Lord
Jesus.
\VS{3}For
this
is
the
will
of
God,
your
sanctification;
that
you
should
abstain
from
fornication;
\VS{4}That
every
one
of
you
should
know how
to
possess
his
vessel
in
sanctification
and honour:
\VS{5}Not
in
the
passion
of
lust,
like
the
Gentiles
that
know
not
God:
\VS{6}And
that
no
man overreach,
nor circumvent
his
brother
in business:
because
the
Lord
is
the
avenger
of
all
these
things,
as
we
have told
you
before,
and
have
testified.
\VS{7}For
God hath
not
called
us unto
uncleanness,
but unto
sanctification.
\VS{8}Therefore,
he
that despiseth
these
things, despiseth
not
man,
but
God,
who
also hath
given
his
holy
Spirit
in
us.
\VS{9}But
as touching
the charity
of brotherhood,
we
have
no
need
to
write
to
you:
for
yourselves
have learned
of
God
to
love
one
another.
\VS{10}For
indeed
you
do
it towards
all
the
brethren
in
all
Macedonia.
But
we
entreat
you,
brethren,
that
you
abound
more:
\VS{11}And that
you use
your endeavour
to
be
quiet,
and that
you
do
your
own business,
and
work
with
your
own
hands,
as
we
commanded
you:
and that
you walk honestly towards
them that
are
without;
and that
you want nothing
of any man’s.
\VS{12}And
we
will
not
have
you ignorant, brethren, concerning
them
that
are asleep,
that
you
be
not sorrowful,
even
as
others
who
have
no hope.
\VS{13}For
if
we believe
that
Jesus
died,
and rose
again;
even
so
them
who
have slept through
Jesus,
will God bring
with
him.
\VS{14}For
this
we
say unto
you
in
the word
of
the
Lord,
that
we
who
are alive,
who remain unto
the coming
of
the
Lord,
shall
not prevent
them
who
have slept.
\VS{15}For
the
Lord
himself
shall
come down
from heaven
with
commandment,
and
with
the voice
of an archangel,
and
with
the trumpet
of
God:
and
the
dead
who
are
in
Christ,
shall rise
first.
\VS{16}Then
we
who
are alive,
who
are
left,
shall
be taken
up
together
with
them
in
the clouds
to meet
Christ,
into
the
air,
and
so
shall
we
be always
with
the
Lord.
\VS{17}Wherefore, comfort ye
one another
with
these
words.

\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}But
of
the
times
and moments,
brethren,
you
need
not,
that
we
should
write
to
you;
\VS{2}For
yourselves
know perfectly,
that
the
day
of
the
Lord
shall
so
come,
as
a
thief
in
the
night.
\VS{3}For
when
they
shall
say,
peace
and
security;
then
shall
sudden
destruction
come upon
them,
as
the
pains upon
her
that
is
with child,
and
they
shall
not
escape.
\VS{4}But
you,
brethren,
are
not
in
darkness,
that
that
day
should
overtake
you
as
a
thief.
\VS{5}For
all
you
are
the children
of
light,
and children
of
the
day:
we
are
not
of
the
night,
nor
of
darkness.
\VS{6}Therefore,
let us
not
sleep,
as
others
do;
but
let us
watch,
and
be
sober.
\VS{7}For
they that
sleep,
sleep
in
the
night;
and
they that
are
drunk,
are
drunk
in
the
night.
\VS{8}But
let us,
who
are
of
the
day,
be
sober, having
on
the
breastplate
of
faith
and charity,
and
for
a
helmet
the
hope
of
salvation.
\VS{9}For
God hath
not
appointed
us unto
wrath,
but unto
the purchasing
of
salvation
by
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ,
\VS{10}Who
died
for
us;
that,
whether
we
watch
or
sleep,
we
may
live
together
with
him.
\VS{11}For
which
cause
comfort
one
another;
and
edify
one
another,
as
you
also
do.
\VS{12}And
we beseech
you,
brethren,
to
know
them
who labour
among
you,
and
are
over
you
in
the
Lord,
and
admonish
you:
\VS{13}That
you
esteem
them
more
abundantly
in charity,
for
their work’s
sake.
Have
peace
with
them.
\VS{14}And
we beseech
you,
brethren, rebuke
the unquiet,
comfort
the feeble minded, support
the
weak,
be
patient towards
all
men.
\VS{15}See
that
none
render
evil
for
evil
to
any
man;
but ever follow
that
which
is
good towards
each
other,
and towards
all
men.
\VS{16}Always
rejoice.
\VS{17}Pray
without
ceasing.
\VS{18}In
all
things
give
thanks;
for
this
is
the
will
of
God
in
Christ
Jesus concerning
you
all.
\VS{19}Extinguish
not
the
spirit.
\VS{20}Despise
not
prophecies.
\VS{21}But prove
all
things;
hold
fast
that
which
is
good.
\VS{22}From
all appearance
of
evil refrain yourselves.
\VS{23}And
may
the
God
of
peace
himself
sanctify
you
in
all
things;
that
your
whole
spirit,
and
soul,
and
body,
may
be
preserved
blameless
in
the
coming
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ.
\VS{24}He
is
faithful
who hath
called
you,
who
also
will
do
it.
\VS{25}Brethren,
pray
for
us.
\VS{26}Salute
all
the
brethren
with
a
holy
kiss.
\VS{27}I charge
you
by
the
Lord,
that
this epistle
be
read
to
all
the holy
brethren.
\VS{28}The
grace
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ
be
with
you. Amen.
\par }