Study Desk

We always thank God for all of you, regularly mentioning you in our prayers,

that the Good News we brought did not become for you a matter only of words, but also one of power, the Ruach HaKodesh and total conviction — just as you know how we lived for your sakes when we were with you.

Thus you became a pattern for all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia;

for the Lord's message sounded forth from you not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but everywhere your trust toward God became known. The result is that we don't need to say anything;

and to wait for his Son Yeshua, whom he raised from the dead, to appear from heaven and rescue us from the impending fury of God's judgment.

For the appeal we make does not flow from error or from impure motives, neither do we try to trick people.

For, as you know, never did we employ flattering talk, nor did we put on a false front to mask greed — God is witness.

As emissaries of the Messiah, we could have made our weight felt; but instead, we were gentle when we were with you, like a mother feeding and caring for her children.

For you remember, brothers, our toil and hardship, how we worked night and day not to put a burden on any of you while we were proclaiming God's Good News to you.

for you know that we treated each one of you the way a father treats his children —

For, brothers, you came to be imitators of God's congregations in Y'hudah that are united with the Messiah Yeshua — you suffered the same things from your countrymen as they did from the Judeans who

And as for us, brothers, when we were deprived of your company for a short time — in person, but not in thought — we missed you and tried hard to come and see you.

For when our Lord Yeshua returns, what will be our hope, our joy, our crown to boast about? Won't it be you?

and sent Timothy, our brother and God's fellow worker for the Good News of the Messiah, to make you solid and encourage you in your trust;

so that none of you would let these persecutions unsettle him. For you yourselves know that these are bound to come to us;

Indeed, how can we thank God enough for you or express to our God all the joy we feel because of you?

And as for you, may the Lord make you increase and overflow in love toward each other, indeed, toward everyone, just as we do toward you;

For you know what instructions we gave you on the authority of the Lord Yeshua.

For God did not call us to live an unclean life but a holy one.

Concerning love for the brothers we do not need to write you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other;