Study Desk

God wants you to be holy, so don't be immoral in matters of sex.

Don't be a slave of your desires or live like people who don't know God.

God didn't choose you to be filthy, but to be pure.

So if you don't obey these rules, you are not really disobeying us. You are disobeying God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.

We don't have to write you about the need to love each other. God has taught you to do this,

We believe that Jesus died and was raised to life. We also believe that when God brings Jesus back again, he will bring with him all who had faith in Jesus before they died.

God doesn't intend to punish us, but wants us to be saved by our Lord Jesus Christ.

Whatever happens, keep thanking God because of Jesus Christ. This is what God wants you to do.

I pray that God, who gives peace, will make you completely holy. And may your spirit, soul, and body be kept healthy and faultless until our Lord Jesus Christ returns.

From Paul, Silas, and Timothy. To the church in Thessalonica, the people of God our Father and of the Lord Jesus Christ.

I pray that God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ will be kind to you and will bless you with peace!

My dear friends, we always have good reason to thank God for you, because your faith in God and your love for each other keep growing all the time.

All of this shows that God judges fairly and that he is making you fit to share in his kingdom for which you are suffering.

It is only right for God to punish everyone who is causing you trouble,

and with a flaming fire. Our Lord Jesus will punish anyone who doesn't know God and won't obey his message.

God chose you, and we keep praying that God will make you worthy of being his people. We pray for God's power to help you do all the good things that you hope to do and that your faith makes you want to do.

Then, because God and our Lord Jesus Christ are so kind, you will bring honor to the name of our Lord Jesus, and he will bring honor to you.

But don't be fooled! People will rebel against God. Then before the Lord returns, the wicked one who is doomed to be destroyed will appear.

He will brag and oppose everything that is holy or sacred. He will even sit in God's temple and claim to be God.

So God will make sure that they are fooled into believing a lie.