\NormalFont\ShortTitle{1 Thessalonians}
{\MTB Paul’s First Letter to the
\par }{\MT Thessalonians

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\SH Introduction
\par }{\PP \VerseOne{1}To
the Thessalonian
church
in
union
with
God
the
Father
and
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ,
from
Paul, Silas,
and
Timothy.
May
God
bless
you
and
give
you
peace.
\par }{\SH The Apostle
and
his
Converts
\par }{\PP \VS{2}We
always
mention
you
in
our
prayers
and
thank
God
for
you
all;
\VS{3}recalling
continually
before
our
God
and
Father
the
efforts
that
have
resulted
from
your
faith,
the
toil
prompted
by
your
love,
and
the
patient
endurance
sustained
by
your
hope
in
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ.
\VS{4}Friends,
whom
God
loves,
we
know
that
he
has
chosen
you,
\VS{5}because
the
good
news
that
we
brought
came
home
to
you,
not
merely
as
so
many
words,
but
with
a
power
and
a
fulness
of
conviction
due
to
the
Holy
Spirit.
For
you
know
the
life
that
we
lived
among
you
for
your
good.
\VS{6}And
you
yourselves
began
to
follow,
not
only
our
example,
but
the
Master’s
also;
and,
in
spite
of
much
suffering,
you
welcomed
the
message
with
a
joy
inspired
by
the
Holy
Spirit,
\VS{7}and
so
became
a
pattern
to
all
who
believed
in Christ
throughout
Macedonia
and
Greece.
\VS{8}For
it
was
from
you
that
the
Lord’s
message
resounded
throughout
Macedonia
and
Greece;
and,
more
than
that,
your
faith
in
God
has
become
known
far
and
wide;
so
that
there
is
no
need
for
us
to
say
another
word.
\VS{9}Indeed,
in
speaking
about
us,
the
people
themselves
tell
of
the
reception
you
gave
us,
and
how,
turning
to
God
from
your
idols,
you
became
servants
of
the
true
and
living
God,
\VS{10}and
are
now awaiting
the
return
from
heaven
of
his
Son
whom
he
raised
from
the
dead –
Jesus,
our
deliverer
from
the
coming
wrath.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Yes,
friends,
you
yourselves
know
that
your
reception
of
us
was
not
without
result.
\VS{2}For,
although
we
had
experienced
suffering
and
ill treatment,
as
you
know,
at
Philippi,
we
had
the
courage,
by
the
help
of
our
God,
to
tell
you
God’s
good
news
in
spite
of
great
opposition.
\VS{3}Our
appeal
to
you
was
not
based
on
a
delusion,
nor
was
it
made
from
unworthy
motives,
or
with
any
intention
of
misleading
you.
\VS{4}But,
having
been
found
worthy
by
God
to
be
entrusted
with
the
good
news,
therefore
we
tell
it;
with
a
view
to
please,
not
people,
but
God
who
proves
our
hearts.
\VS{5}Never
at
any
time,
as
you
know,
did
we
use
the
language
of
flattery,
or
make
false professions
in
order
to
hide
selfish
aims.
God
will
bear
witness
to
that.
\VS{6}Nor
did
we
seek
to
win
honor
from
people,
whether
from
you
or
from
others,
although,
as apostles
of
Christ,
we
might
have
burdened
you
with
our
support.
\VS{7}But
we
lived
among
you
with
the
simplicity
of
a
child;
we
were
like
a
woman
nursing
her
own
children.
\VS{8}In
our
strong
affection
for
you,
that
seemed
to
us
the
best
way
of
sharing
with
you,
not
only
God’s
good
news,
but
our
lives
as
well –
so
dear
had
you
become
to
us.
\VS{9}You
will
not
have
forgotten,
friends,
our
labor
and
toil.
Night
and
day
we
used
to
work
at
our trades,
so
as
not
be
a
burden
to
any
of
you,
while
we
proclaimed
to
you
God’s
good
news.
\VS{10}You
will
bear
witness,
and
God
also,
that
our
relations
with
you
who
believed
in
Christ
were
pure,
and
upright,
and
beyond
reproach.
\VS{11}Indeed,
you
know
that,
like
a
father
with
his
own
children,
we
used
to
encourage
and
comfort
every
one
of
you,
and
solemnly
plead
with
you;
\VS{12}so
that
you
should
make
your
daily
lives
worthy
of
God
who
is
calling
you
into
the
glory
of
his
kingdom.
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{13}This,
too,
is
a
reason
why
we,
on
our
part,
are
continually
thanking
God –
because,
in
receiving
the
teaching
that
you
had
from
us,
you
accepted
it,
not
as
the
teaching
of humans,
but
as
what
it
really
is –
the
teaching
of
God,
which
is
even
now
doing
its
work
within
you
who
believe
in Christ.
\VS{14}For
you,
friends,
began
to
follow
the
example
of
the
churches
of
God
in
Judea
which
are
in
union
with
Jesus
Christ;
you,
in
your
turn,
suffering
at
the
hands
of
your
fellow
citizens,
in
the
same
way
as
those
churches
did
at
the
hands
of
their
people –
\VS{15}who
killed
both
the
Lord
Jesus
and
the
prophets,
and
persecuted
us
also.
They
do
not
try
to
please
God,
and
they
are
enemies
to
all
humanity,
\VS{16}for
they
try
to
prevent
us
from
speaking
to
the
Gentiles
with
a
view
to
their
salvation,
and
so
are
always
filling
up
the
measure
of
their
iniquity.
But
the
wrath
of
God
has
come
upon
them
to
the
full!
\par }{\PP \VS{17}As
for
ourselves,
friends,
our
having
been
bereaved
of
you
even
for
a
short
time –
though
in
body
only,
and
not
in
spirit –
made
us
all
the
more
eager
to
see
your
faces
again;
and
the
longing
to
do
so
was
strong
on
us.
\VS{18}That
was
why
we
made
up
our
minds
to
go
and
see
you –
at
least
I,
Paul,
did,
more
than
once –
but
Satan
put difficulties
in
our
way.
\VS{19}For
what
hope
or
joy
will
be
ours,
or
what
crown
will
we
have
to
boast
of,
in
the
presence
of
our
Lord
Jesus,
at
his
coming,
if
it
isn’t
you?
\VS{20}You
are
our
pride
and
our
delight!

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
so,
as
we
could
bear
it
no
longer,
we
made
up
our
minds
to
remain
behind
alone
at Athens,
\VS{2}and
sent
Timothy,
our
dear
friend
and
God’s
minister
of
the
good
news
of
the
Christ,
to
strengthen
you,
and
to
encourage
you
in
your
faith,
\VS{3}so
that
none
of
you
should
be
shaken
by
the
troubles
through
which
you
are
passing.
You
yourselves
know
that
we
are
destined
to
meet
with
such
things.
\VS{4}For,
even
while
we
were
with
you,
we
warned
you
beforehand
that
we
were
certain
to
encounter
trouble.
And
so
it
proved,
as
you
know.
\VS{5}Therefore,
since
I
could
no
longer
endure
the uncertainty,
I
sent
to
make inquiries
about
your
faith,
fearing
that
the
Tempter
had
tempted
you,
and
that
our
toil
might
prove
to
have
been
in
vain.
\VS{6}But,
when
Timothy
recently
returned
to
us
from
you
with
good
news
of
your
faith
and
love,
and
told
us
how
kindly
you
think
of
us –
always
longing,
he
said,
to
see
us,
just
as
we
are
longing
to
see
you –
\VS{7}on
hearing
this,
we
felt
encouraged
about
you,
friends,
in
the
midst
of
all
our difficulties
and
troubles,
by
your
faith.
\VS{8}For
it
is
new
life
to
us
to
know
that
you
are
holding
fast
to
the
Lord.
\VS{9}How
can
we
thank
God
enough
for
all
the
happiness
that
you
are
giving
us
in
the
sight
of
our
God?
\VS{10}Night
and
day
we
pray
most
earnestly
that
we
may
see
you
face
to
face,
and
make
good
any deficiency
in
your
faith.
\par }{\PP \VS{11}May
our
God
and
Father
himself,
and
Jesus,
our
Lord,
make
the
way
plain
for
us
to
come
to
you.
\VS{12}And
for
you,
may
the
Lord
fill
you
to
overflowing
with
love
for
one
another
and
for
everyone,
just
as
we
are
filled
with
love
for
you;
\VS{13}and
so
make
your
hearts
strong,
and
your
lives
pure
beyond
reproach,
in
the
sight
of
our
God
and
Father,
at
the
coming
of
our
Lord
Jesus,
with
all
his
Holy
Ones.

\par }\Chap{4}{\SH Advice on Daily Life
\par }{\PP \VerseOne{1}Further,
friends,
we
beg
and
urge
you
in
the
name
of
our
Lord
Jesus
to
carry
out
more
fully
than
ever –
as
indeed
you
are
already
doing –
all
that
you
have
heard
from
us
as
to
what
your
daily
life
must
be,
if
it
is
to
please
God.
\VS{2}For
you
have
not
forgotten
the
directions
that
we
gave
you
on
the
authority
of
our
Lord
Jesus.
\par }{\PP \VS{3}For
this
is
God’s
purpose –
that
you
should
be
pure; abstaining
from
all
immorality;
\VS{4}each
of
you
learning
to
gain
control
over
your
own
body,
in
a
way
that
is
holy
and
honorable,
\VS{5}and
not
for
the
mere gratification
of
your
passions,
like
the
Gentiles
who
know
nothing
of
God;
\VS{6}none
of
you overreaching
or
taking
advantage
of
their
fellow follower
of
the
Lord
in
such
matters.
The
Lord
takes
vengeance
on
all
who
do
such
things,
as
we
have
already
warned
you
and
solemnly
declared.
\VS{7}For
God
does
not
call
us
to
an
impure
life,
but
demands
holiness.
\VS{8}Therefore
the
person
who disregards
this
warning disregards,
not
people,
but
God
who
gives
you
his
Holy
Spirit.
\par }{\PP \VS{9}As
to
love
for
each
other
there
is
no
need
to
write
to
you;
for
you
have
yourselves
been
taught
by
God
to
love
one
another;
\VS{10}and
indeed
you
do
act
in
this
spirit towards
all
his
people
throughout
Macedonia.
\par }{\PP Yet,
friends,
we
beg
you
to
do
even
more.
\VS{11}Make
it
your
ambition
to
live
quietly,
and
to
attend
to
your
own
business,
and
to
work
with
your
hands,
as
we
directed
you;
\VS{12}so
that
your
conduct
may
win
respect
from
those
outside
the church,
and
that
you
may
not
want
for
anything.
\par }{\SH The
Dead
in Christ
at
the
coming
of
the
Lord
\par }{\PP \VS{13}We
don’t
want
you
to
be
ignorant,
friends,
about
those
who
have
passed
to
their
rest.
We
don’t
want
you
to
grieve
like
other
people
who
have
no
hope.
\VS{14}For,
as
we
believe
that
Jesus
died
and
rose
again,
so
also
we
believe
that
God
will
bring,
with
Jesus,
those
who
through
him
have
passed
to
their
rest.
\VS{15}This
we
tell
you
on
the
authority
of
the
Lord –
that
those
of
us
who
are
still
living
at
the
coming
of
the
Lord
will
not
anticipate
those
who
have
passed
to
their
rest.
\VS{16}For,
with
a
loud
summons,
with
the
shout
of
an archangel,
and
with
the trumpet-call
of
God,
the
Lord
himself
will
come
down
from
heaven.
\VS{17}Then
those
who
died
in
union
with
Christ
will
rise
first;
and
afterward
we
who
are
still
living
will
be
caught
up
in
the
clouds,
with
them,
to
meet
the
Lord
in
the
air;
and
so
we
will
be
for
ever
with
the
Lord.
\VS{18}Therefore,
comfort
one
another
with
what
I
have
told
you.

\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}But
as
to
the
times
and
the moments,
there
is
no
need,
friends,
for
anyone
to
write
to
you.
\VS{2}You
yourselves
know
well
that
the
day
of
the
Lord
will
come
just
as
a
thief
comes
in
the
night.
\VS{3}When
people
are
saying ‘All
is
quiet
and
safe,’
it
is
then
that,
like
birth
pains
on
a
pregnant
woman,
ruin
comes
suddenly
upon
them,
and
there
will
be
no
escape!
\VS{4}You,
however,
friends,
are
not
in
darkness,
that
the
daylight
should
take
you
by surprise
as
if
you
were
thieves.
\VS{5}For
you
all
are
children
of
light
and
children
of
the
day.
\par }{\PP We
have
nothing
to
do
with
night,
or
darkness.
\VS{6}Therefore
let
us
not
sleep
as
others
do.
No,
let
us
be
watchful
and self-controlled.
\VS{7}It
is
at
night
that
people
sleep,
and
at
night
that
drunkards
get
drunk.
\VS{8}But
let
us,
who
belong
to
the
day,
control
ourselves,
and
put
on
faith
and
love
as
a
breast
plate,
and
the
hope
of
salvation
as
a
helmet.
\VS{9}For
God
destined
us,
not
for
wrath,
but
to
win
salvation
through
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ,
who
died
for
us,
\VS{10}that,
whether
we
are
still
watching
or
have
fallen
asleep,
we
may
live
with
him.
\VS{11}Therefore
encourage
one
another,
and
try
to
build
up
one
another’s characters,
as
indeed
you
are
doing.
\par }{\SH Conclusion
\par }{\PP \VS{12}We
beg
you,
friends,
to
value
those
who
toil
among
you,
and
are
your
leaders
in
the
Lord’s
service,
and
give
you
counsel.
\VS{13}Hold
them
in
the
very
greatest
esteem
and
affection
for
the
sake
of
their
work.
Live
at
peace
with
one
another.
\VS{14}We
entreat
you
also,
friends –
warn
the disorderly,
comfort
the faint-hearted,
give
a
helping
hand
to
the
weak,
and
be
patient
with
everyone.
\VS{15}Take
care
that
none
of
you
ever
pays
back
wrong
for
wrong,
but
always
follow
the kindest
course
with
one
another
and
with
everyone.
\VS{16}Always
be
joyful;
\VS{17}never
cease
to
pray;
\VS{18}under
all
circumstances
give
thanks
to
God.
For
this
is
his
will
for
you
as
made
known
in
Christ
Jesus.
\VS{19}Do
not
quench
the
Spirit;
\VS{20}do
not
make
light
of
preaching.
\VS{21}Bring
everything
to
the
test;
cling
to
what
is
good;
\VS{22}shun
every
form
of
evil.
\VS{23}May
God
himself,
the giver
of
peace,
make
you
altogether
holy;
and
may
your
spirits,
souls,
and
bodies
be
kept
altogether faultless
until
the
coming
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ.
\VS{24}He
who
calls
you
will
not
fail
you;
he
will
complete
his
work.
\par }{\PP \VS{25}Friends,
pray
for
us.
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{26}Greet
all
the
Lord’s
followers
with
a
sacred
kiss.
\VS{27}I
order
you
in
the
Lord’s
name
to
have
this
letter
read
to
all
the
brethren.
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{28}May
the
blessing
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ
be
with
you.\par }