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For what thanksgiving can we render to God for you, for all the joy wherewith we rejoice on account of you before our God,

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

in order to the confirming of your hearts unblamable in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

For the rest, then, brethren, we beg you and exhort you in [the] Lord Jesus, even as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and please God, even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more.

For this is [the] will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;

(not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know not God,)

For God has not called us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.

He therefore that [in this] disregards [his brother], disregards, not man, but God, who has given also his Holy Spirit to you.

Now concerning brotherly love ye have no need that we should write to you, for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

For if we believe that Jesus has died and has risen again, so also God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep through Jesus.

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;

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

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

Now the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly: and your whole spirit, and soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Paul and Silvanus and Timotheus to the assembly of Thessalonians in God our Father and [the] Lord Jesus Christ.

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

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;

if at least [it is a] righteous thing with God to render tribulation to those that trouble you,