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not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don't know God;

For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

Therefore he who rejects, doesn't reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.

But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one 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 those who have fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

For God didn't appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

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

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the assembly of the 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 are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you towards one another abounds;

so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.

This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer.

Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,

giving vengeance to those who don't know God, and to those who don't obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus,

To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith, with power;

that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped; so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.

Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;

But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth;