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Therefore, my beloved and longed-for brethren, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, beloved.

As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,

So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths,

bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do.

so that you became examples to all in Macedonia and Achaia who believe.

For from you the word of the Lord has sounded forth, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place. Your faith toward God has gone out, so that we do not need to say anything.

But as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who tests our hearts.

So, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God, but also our own lives, because you had become dear to us.

forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, so as always to fill up the measure of their sins; but wrath has come upon them to the uttermost.

so that He may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.

and indeed you do so toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, that you increase more and more;

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus. [fn]

For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night.

But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief.

so that we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that you endure,

who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God [fn] in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He [fn] who now restrains will do so until He [fn] is taken out of the way.

The salutation of Paul with my own hand, which is a sign in every epistle; so I write.

but if I am delayed, I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

Let as many bondservants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and His doctrine may not be blasphemed.