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And think ye so in yourselves, as Jesus the Messiah also thought;

so that ye may be to them in place of life; for my glory in the day of the Messiah, that I may not have run in vain or toiled for naught.

And so also do ye rejoice and exult with me.

But I hope in our Lord Jesus, that I shall shortly send Timothy unto you, so that I also may have composure, when informed concerning you.

But ye know the proof of him, that as a son with his father, so he labored with me in the gospel.

Promptly, therefore, have I sent him to you; so that when ye see him, ye may again be joyful, and I may have a little breathing.

if so be, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

Not as though I had already taken [fn] , or were already complete; but I run [fn] , if so I may take that, for which Jesus the Messiah took me.

Wherefore, my beloved and dear brethren, my joy and my crown !-so stand ye fast in our Lord, my beloved !

And be ye indulgent towards one another, and forgiving to one another: and if any one has a complaint against his neighbor, as the Messiah forgave you, so also do ye forgive.

8 For from you the word of our Lord sounded forth; [fn] not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place, your faith in God is heard of; so that we have no need to say any thing concerning you.

but as we had been approved of God to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who searcheth our hearts.

8 so we also fondled [fn] , and were desirous to impart to you, not the gospel of God merely, but also our own soul, because ye were dear to us.

For ye, my brethren, became assimilated to the churches of God in Judaea, the persons who are in Jesus the Messiah; in that ye so suffered, even ye from your own countrymen, as also they from the Jews,

Wherefore, my brethren, I entreat you, and beseech you by our Lord Jesus, that, as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk, and to please God, so ye would make progress more and more.

Ye likewise do so, to all the brethren who are in all Macedonia: but I entreat you, my brethren, to be exuberant:

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them who sleep, will God, by Jesus, bring with him.

and then, we who survive and are alive shall be caught up together with them to the clouds, to meet our Lord in the air; and so shall we be ever with our Lord.

for ye know assuredly, that the day of our Lord so cometh, as a thief by night.

so that the name of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, may be glorified in you, (and) ye also in him; according to the grace of God, and of our Lord Jesus the Messiah.