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for the Lord himself, with an assembling shout, with archangel's voice and with trump of God, shall descend from heaven; and the dead in Christ shall rise first;

for ye know perfectly well yourselves, that the day of [the] Lord so comes as a thief by night.

for all *ye* are sons of light and sons of day; we are not of night nor of darkness.

for they that sleep sleep by night, and they that drink drink by night;

because God has not set us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

who has died for us, that whether we may be watching or sleep, we may live together with him.

See that no one render to any evil for evil, but pursue always what is good towards one another and towards all;

in everything give thanks, for this is [the] will of God in Christ Jesus towards you;

Brethren, pray for us.

We ought to thank God always for you, brethren, even as it is meet, because your faith increases exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all towards one another abounds;

so that we ourselves make our boast in you in the assemblies of God for your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations, which ye are sustaining;

a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that ye should be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for the sake of which ye also suffer;

when he shall have come to be glorified in his saints, and wondered at in all that have believed, (for our testimony to you has been believed,) in that day.

To which end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of the calling, and fulfil all [the] good pleasure of [his] goodness and [the] work of faith with power,

For the mystery of lawlessness already works; only [there is] he who restrains now until he be gone,

And for this reason God sends to them a working of error, that they should believe what is false,

But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of [the] Lord, that God has chosen you from [the] beginning to salvation in sanctification of [the] Spirit and belief of [the] truth:

For the rest, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run and be glorified, even as also with you;

and that we may be delivered from bad and evil men, for faith [is] not [the portion] of all.

For ye know yourselves how ye ought to imitate us, because we have not walked disorderly among you;