Study Desk

For what thanks are we able to return to God concerning you, over all the joy with which we rejoice because of you before our God,

But may our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you.

in order to establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and our Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.

For the rest, then brothers, we beg you and we exhort in the Lord Jesus, even as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more.

not in passion of lust, even as also the nations do , not knowing God;

For God did not call us to impurity, but in purity.

Therefore, the one that despises does not despise man, but God, even He giving His Holy Spirit to us.

Now as to brotherly love, you have no need for me 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 also bring with Him all those who have fallen asleep through Jesus.

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

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

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

Paul and 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.

Brothers, we are bound to give thanks to God always concerning you, even as it is right, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each one of you multiplies toward one another,

so as for us to boast ourselves in you in the assemblies of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions, and the afflictions which you endure,

a clear token of the just judgment of God, for you to be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you indeed suffer;

since it is a just thing with God to pay back tribulation to the ones troubling you,

in flaming fire giving full vengeance to those not knowing God, and to those not obeying the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, Isa. 66:15; Jer. 10:25

For which we also continually pray concerning you, that our God would deem you worthy of the calling, and would fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness, and work of faith in power,