Study Desk

Instead, just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please people, but rather God, who examines our hearts.

For we never used flattering speech, as you know, or had greedy motives—God is our witness—

We cared so much for you that we were pleased to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own lives, because you had become dear to us.

You are witnesses, and so is God, of how devoutly, righteously, and blamelessly we conducted ourselves with you believers.

we encouraged, comforted, and implored each one of you to live worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.

This is why we constantly thank God, because when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you welcomed it not as a human message, but as it truly is, the word of God, which also works effectively in you who believe.

who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets and persecuted us. They displease God and are hostile to everyone,

How can we thank God for you in return for all the joy we experience before our God because of you,

Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you.

May he make your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints. Amen.

Additionally then, brothers and sisters, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus, that as you have received instruction from us on how you should live and please God—as you are doing—do this even more.

not with lustful passions, like the Gentiles, who don’t know God.

For God has not called us to impurity but to live in holiness.

Consequently, anyone who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.

About brotherly love: You don’t need me to write you because you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, in the same way, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the archangel’s voice, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. And may your whole spirit, soul, and body be kept sound and blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.