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For ye your selues knowe, brethren, that our entrance in vnto you was not in vaine,

For our exhortation was not by deceite, nor by vncleannes, nor by guile.

For ye remember, brethren, our labour and trauaile: for we laboured day & night, because we would not be chargeable vnto any of you, and preached vnto you the Gospel of God.

For this cause also thanke we God without ceasing, that when ye receiued the worde of God, which ye heard of vs, ye receiued it not as the worde of men, but as it is in deede the worde of God, which also worketh in you that beleeue.

For brethren, ye are become folowers of the Churches of God, which in Iudea are in Christ Iesus, because ye haue also suffred the same things of your owne countrey men, euen as they haue of the Iewes,

And forbid vs to preach vnto the Gentiles, that they might be saued, to fulfill their sinnes alwayes: for the wrath of God is come on them, to the vtmost.

For asmuch, brethren, as we were kept from you for a season, concerning sight, but not in the heart, we enforced the more to see your face with great desire.

For what is our hope or ioye, or crowne of reioycing? are not euen you it in the presence of our Lord Iesus Christ at his comming?

That no man should be moued with these afflictions: for ye your selues knowe, that we are appointed thereunto.

For verily when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulations, euen as it came to passe, and ye knowe it.

Euen for this cause, when I could no longer forbeare, I sent him that I might knowe of your faith, lest the tempter had tempted you in any sort, and that our labour had bene in vaine.

For nowe are wee aliue, if ye stand fast in the Lorde.

For what thankes can wee recompense to God againe for you, for all the ioy wherewith we reioyce for your sakes before our God,

For ye knowe what commaundements we gaue you by the Lord Iesus.

For this is the will of God euen your sanctification, and that ye should abstaine from fornication,

That no man oppresse or defraude his brother in any matter: for the Lord is auenger of all such thinges, as we also haue tolde you before time, and testified.

For God hath not called vs vnto vncleannesse, but vnto holinesse.

But as touching brotherly loue, ye neede not that I write vnto you: for ye are taught of God to loue one another.

For if we beleeue that Iesus is dead, and is risen, euen so them which sleepe in Iesus, will God bring with him.

For this say we vnto you by the worde of the Lorde, that we which liue, and are remayning in the comming of the Lorde, shall not preuent them which sleepe.