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{\MT Paul’s First Letter to the Thessalonians

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Paul,
Silvanus,
and
Timothy,
to
the
assembly
of
the
Thessalonians
in
God
the
Father
and
the
Lord Yeshua
the
Messiah:\FTNT{*}{{\FR 1:1 }
“Messiah” means “Anointed One”.}
Grace
to
you
and
peace
from
God
our
Father
and
the
Lord Yeshua
the
Messiah.
\par }{\PP \VS{2}We
always
give
thanks
to
God
for
all
of
you, mentioning
you
in
our
prayers,
\VS{3}remembering
without
ceasing
your
work
of
faith
and labour
of
love
and
perseverance
of
hope
in
our
Lord Yeshua
the
Messiah,
before
our
God
and
Father.
\VS{4}We
know,
brothers\FTNT{†}{{\FR 1:4 }
The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”
}
loved
by
God,
that
you
are
chosen,
\VS{5}and
that
our
Good
News
came
to
you
not
in
word
only,
but
also
in
power,
and
in
the
Holy
Spirit
and
with
much
assurance.
You
know
what
kind
of
men
we showed
ourselves
to
be amongst
you
for
your
sake.
\VS{6}You
became
imitators
of
us
and
of
the
Lord,
having
received
the
word
in
much
affliction,
with
joy
of
the
Holy
Spirit,
\VS{7}so
that
you
became
an example
to
all
who
believe
in
Macedonia
and
in
Achaia.
\VS{8}For
from
you
the
word
of
the
Lord
has
been
declared,
not
only
in
Macedonia
and
Achaia,
but
also
in
every
place
your
faith towards
God
has
gone
out,
so
that
we
need
not
to
say
anything.
\VS{9}For
they
themselves
report
concerning
us
what
kind
of
a
reception
we
had
from
you,
and
how
you
turned
to
God
from
idols
to
serve
a
living
and
true
God,
\VS{10}and
to
wait
for
his
Son
from
heaven,
whom
he
raised
from
the
dead: Yeshua,
who delivers
us
from
the
wrath
to
come.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}For
you
yourselves
know,
brothers,
our visit
to
you
wasn’t
in
vain,
\VS{2}but having suffered
before
and
been shamefully treated,
as
you
know,
at
Philippi,
we grew bold
in
our
God
to
tell
you
the
Good
News
of
God
in
much
conflict.
\VS{3}For
our
exhortation
is
not
of
error,
nor
of
uncleanness,
nor
in
deception.
\VS{4}But even
as
we
have
been approved
by
God
to
be
entrusted
with
the
Good
News,
so
we
speak—not
as
pleasing
men,
but
God,
who tests
our
hearts.
\VS{5}For
neither
were
we
at
any
time
found using
words
of flattery,
as
you
know,
nor
a cloak
of
covetousness (God
is
witness),
\VS{6}nor
seeking
glory
from
men (neither
from
you
nor
from
others),
when
we
might
have claimed
authority
as emissaries
of
Messiah.
\VS{7}But
we
were
gentle amongst
you,
like
a
nursing mother
cherishes
her
own
children.
\par }{\PP \VS{8}Even
so, affectionately longing
for
you,
we
were
well
pleased
to
impart
to
you
not
the
Good
News
of
God
only,
but
also
our
own
souls,
because
you
had
become
very
dear
to us.
\VS{9}For
you
remember,
brothers,
our labour
and travail;
for working
night
and
day,
that
we
might
not
burden
any
of
you,
we
preached
to
you
the
Good
News
of
God.
\VS{10}You
are
witnesses
with
God
how holy,
righteously,
and
blamelessly
we
behaved ourselves towards
you
who
believe.
\VS{11}As
you
know,
we
exhorted,
comforted,
and
implored
every
one
of
you,
as
a
father
does
his
own
children,
\VS{12}to
the
end
that
you
should
walk
worthily
of
God,
who
calls
you
into
his
own
Kingdom
and
glory.
\par }{\PP \VS{13}For
this cause
we
also
thank
God
without
ceasing
that
when
you
received
from
us
the
word
of
the
message
of
God,
you
accepted
it
not
as
the
word
of
men,
but
as
it
is
in truth,
God’s
word,
which
also
works
in
you
who
believe.
\VS{14}For
you,
brothers,
became
imitators
of
the
assemblies
of
God
which
are
in
Judea
in
Messiah Yeshua;
for
you
also
suffered
the
same
things
from
your
own
countrymen,
even
as
they
did
from
the Judeans
\VS{15}who
killed
both
the
Lord Yeshua
and
their own
prophets,
and
drove us out,
and
don’t
please
God,
and
are
contrary
to
all
men,
\VS{16}forbidding
us
to
speak
to
the
Gentiles
that
they
may
be
saved,
to
fill
up
their
sins
always.
But
wrath
has
come
on
them
to
the uttermost.
\par }{\PP \VS{17}But
we,
brothers,
being bereaved
of
you
for
a short
season
in
presence,
not
in
heart, tried
even harder
to
see
your
face
with
great
desire,
\VS{18}because
we
wanted
to
come
to
you—indeed,
I,
Paul,
once
and
again—but
Satan
hindered us.
\VS{19}For
what
is
our
hope,
or
joy,
or
crown
of
rejoicing?
Isn’t
it
even
you,
before
our
Lord Yeshua\FTNT{*}{{\FR 2:19 }
TR adds “Messiah”}
at
his
coming?
\VS{20}For
you
are
our
glory
and
our
joy.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Therefore
when
we couldn’t stand
it
any
longer,
we
thought
it
good
to
be
left
behind
at
Athens
alone,
\VS{2}and
sent
Timothy,
our
brother
and
God’s
servant
in
the
Good
News
of
Messiah,
to
establish
you
and
to
comfort
you
concerning
your
faith,
\VS{3}that
no
one
would
be moved
by
these
afflictions.
For
you
know
that
we
are
appointed
to
this task.
\VS{4}For most
certainly,
when
we
were
with
you,
we
told
you beforehand
that
we
are
to
suffer
affliction,
even
as
it
happened,
and
you
know.
\VS{5}For
this cause
I
also,
when
I couldn’t stand
it
any
longer,
sent
that
I
might
know
your
faith,
for
fear
that
by
any
means
the
tempter
had
tempted
you,
and
our labour
would
have
been
in
vain.
\par }{\PP \VS{6}But
Timothy
has
just
now
come
to
us
from
you,
and
brought
us glad
news
of
your
faith
and
love,
and
that
you
have
good memories
of
us
always,
longing
to
see
us,
even
as
we
also
long
to
see
you.
\VS{7}For
this cause,
brothers,
we
were
comforted
over
you
in
all
our
distress
and
affliction
through
your
faith.
\VS{8}For
now
we
live,
if
you
stand fast
in
the
Lord.
\VS{9}For
what
thanksgiving
can
we
render again
to
God
for
you,
for
all
the
joy
with
which
we
rejoice
for
your
sakes
before
our
God,
\VS{10}night
and
day
praying exceedingly
that
we
may
see
your
face
and
may
perfect
that
which
is
lacking
in
your
faith?
\par }{\PP \VS{11}Now
may
our
God
and
Father
himself,
and
our
Lord Yeshua
the Messiah,
direct
our
way
to
you.
\VS{12}May
the
Lord
make
you
to
increase
and
abound
in
love towards
one
another
and towards
all
men,
even
as
we
also
do towards
you,
\VS{13}to
the
end
he
may
establish
your
hearts
blameless
in
holiness
before
our
God
and
Father
at
the
coming
of
our
Lord Yeshua
with
all
his
holy
ones.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Finally
then,
brothers,
we
beg
and
exhort
you
in
the
Lord Yeshua,
that
as
you
received
from
us
how
you
ought
to
walk
and
to
please
God,
that
you
abound
more
and
more.
\VS{2}For
you
know
what instructions
we
gave
you
through
the
Lord Yeshua.
\VS{3}For
this
is
the
will
of
God:
your
sanctification,
that
you
abstain
from
sexual
immorality,
\VS{4}that
each
one
of
you
know how
to control
his
own
body\FTNT{*}{{\FR 4:4 }
literally, possess his own vessel}
in
sanctification
and honour,
\VS{5}not
in
the
passion
of
lust,
even
as
the
Gentiles
who
don’t
know
God,
\VS{6}that
no
one
should
take
advantage
of
and wrong
a
brother
or sister
in
this
matter;
because
the
Lord
is
an
avenger
in
all
these
things,
as
also
we forewarned
you
and
testified.
\VS{7}For
God
called
us
not
for
uncleanness,
but
in
sanctification.
\VS{8}Therefore
he
who
rejects
this
doesn’t
reject
man,
but
God,
who
has
also
given
his
Holy
Spirit
to
you.
\par }{\PP \VS{9}But
concerning
brotherly
love,
you
have
no
need
that
one
write
to
you.
For
you
yourselves
are
taught
by
God
to
love
one
another,
\VS{10}for
indeed
you
do
it towards
all
the
brothers
who
are
in
all
Macedonia.
But
we
exhort
you,
brothers,
that
you
abound
more
and
more;
\VS{11}and that
you
make
it
your
ambition
to
lead
a
quiet
life,
and
to
do
your
own business,
and
to
work
with
your
own
hands,
even
as
we
instructed
you,
\VS{12}that
you
may
walk
properly towards
those
who
are
outside,
and
may
have
need
of
nothing.
\par }{\PP \VS{13}But
we
don’t
want
you
to
be
ignorant,
brothers,
concerning
those
who
have
fallen
asleep,
so
that
you
don’t
grieve
like
the
rest,
who
have
no
hope.
\VS{14}For
if
we
believe
that Yeshua
died
and
rose
again,
even
so
God
will
bring
with
him
those
who
have
fallen
asleep
in Yeshua.
\VS{15}For
this
we
tell
you
by
the
word
of
the
Lord,
that
we
who
are
alive,
who
are left
until
the
coming
of
the
Lord,
will
in
no
way
precede
those
who
have
fallen
asleep.
\VS{16}For
the
Lord
himself
will
descend
from
heaven
with
a
shout,
with
the
voice
of
the
archangel
and
with
God’s shofar.
The
dead
in
Messiah
will
rise
first,
\VS{17}then
we
who
are
alive,
who
are left,
will
be
caught
up
together
with
them
in
the
clouds
to
meet
the
Lord
in
the
air.
So
we
will
be
with
the
Lord
forever.
\VS{18}Therefore
comfort
one
another
with
these
words.

\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}But
concerning
the
times
and
the
seasons,
brothers,
you
have
no
need
that anything
be
written
to
you.
\VS{2}For
you
yourselves
know
well
that
the
day
of
the
Lord
comes
like
a
thief
in
the
night.
\VS{3}For
when
they
are
saying, “Peace
and
safety,”
then
sudden
destruction
will
come
on
them,
like
birth
pains
on
a
pregnant woman.
Then
they
will
in
no
way
escape.
\VS{4}But
you,
brothers,
aren’t
in
darkness,
that
the
day
should
overtake
you
like
a
thief.
\VS{5}You
are
all children
of
light
and children
of
the
day.
We
don’t
belong
to
the
night,
nor
to
darkness,
\VS{6}so
then let’s
not
sleep,
as
the
rest
do,
but let’s
watch
and
be
sober.
\VS{7}For
those
who
sleep,
sleep
in
the
night;
and
those
who
are
drunk
are
drunk
in
the
night.
\VS{8}But
since
we
belong
to
the
day, let’s
be
sober, putting
on
the
breastplate
of
faith
and
love,
and
for
a
helmet,
the
hope
of
salvation.
\VS{9}For
God
didn’t appoint
us
to
wrath,
but
to
the
obtaining
of
salvation
through
our
Lord Yeshua
the
Messiah,
\VS{10}who
died
for
us,
that,
whether
we
wake
or
sleep,
we
should
live
together
with
him.
\VS{11}Therefore
exhort
one
another,
and
build
each
other
up,
even
as
you
also
do.
\par }{\PP \VS{12}But
we
beg
you,
brothers,
to
know
those
who labour amongst
you,
and
are
over
you
in
the
Lord
and
admonish
you,
\VS{13}and
to respect
and honour
them
in
love
for
their work’s
sake.
\par }{\PP Be
at
peace amongst
yourselves.
\VS{14}We
exhort
you,
brothers:
Admonish
the disorderly;
encourage
the faint-hearted; support
the
weak;
be
patient towards
all.
\VS{15}See
that
no
one returns
evil
for
evil
to
anyone,
but
always follow
after
that
which
is
good
for
one
another
and
for
all.
\par }{\PP \VS{16}Always
rejoice.
\VS{17}Pray
without
ceasing.
\VS{18}In
everything
give
thanks,
for
this
is
the
will
of
God
in
Messiah Yeshua towards
you.
\VS{19}Don’t
quench
the
Spirit.
\VS{20}Don’t
despise
prophecies.
\VS{21}Test
all
things,
and
hold
firmly
that
which
is
good.
\VS{22}Abstain
from
every
form
of
evil.
\par }{\PP \VS{23}May
the
God
of
peace
himself
sanctify
you
completely.
May
your
whole
spirit,
soul,
and
body
be
preserved
blameless
at
the
coming
of
our
Lord Yeshua
the
Messiah.
\par }{\PP \VS{24}He
who
calls
you
is
faithful,
who
will
also
do
it.
\par }{\PP \VS{25}Brothers,
pray
for
us.
\par }{\PP \VS{26}Greet
all
the
brothers
with
a
holy
kiss.
\VS{27}I solemnly command
you
by
the
Lord
that
this
letter
be
read
to
all
the holy
brothers.
\par }{\PP \VS{28}The
grace
of
our
Lord Yeshua
the
Messiah
be
with
you. Amen.
\par }