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Now concerning love of the brothers, you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.

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

For God has not appointed us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely, and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:

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

We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is only fitting, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of each one of you all toward one another increases all the more,

so that we ourselves boast about you among the churches of God for your perseverance and faith in the midst of all your persecutions and afflictions which you endure.

This is a plain indication of God's righteous judgment so that you will be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which indeed you are suffering.

Since it is right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

executing vengeance on those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

To this end also we pray for you always, that our God will count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill all your good pleasure for goodness and the work of faith with power,

so that the name of our Lord Jesus will be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the sanctuary of God, exhibiting himself as being God.

And for this reason God sends upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false,

But we should always give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you as the first fruits for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth.

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope by grace,

And may the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the steadfastness of Christ.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the commandment of God our Savior, and of Christ Jesus, our hope,