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who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and persecuted us. How displeasing they are to God! How hostile they are to everyone!

while we sent Timothy, our brother who works with us for God in preaching the Good News about Christ. We sent him to strengthen you and help your faith,

Now we can give thanks to our God for you. We thank him for the joy we have in his presence because of you.

May our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus prepare the way for us to come to you!

In this way he will strengthen you, and you will be perfect and holy in the presence of our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all who belong to him.

Finally, our friends, you learned from us how you should live in order to please God. This is, of course, the way you have been living. And now we beg and urge you in the name of the Lord Jesus to do even more.

God wants you to be holy and completely free from sexual immorality.

not with a lustful desire, like the heathen who do not know God.

God did not call us to live in immorality, but in holiness.

So then, whoever rejects this teaching is not rejecting a human being, but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.

There is no need to write you about love for each other. You yourselves have been taught by God how you should love one another.

We believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will take back with Jesus those who have died believing in him.

God did not choose us to suffer his anger, but to possess salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

be thankful in all circumstances. This is what God wants from you in your life in union with Christ Jesus.

May the God who gives us peace make you holy in every way and keep your whole being—spirit, soul, and body—free from every fault at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

From Paul, Silas, and Timothy— To the people of the church in Thessalonica, who belong to God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:

May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace.

Our friends, we must thank God at all times for you. It is right for us to do so, because your faith is growing so much and the love each of you has for the others is becoming greater.

That is why we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God. We boast about the way you continue to endure and believe through all the persecutions and sufferings you are experiencing.

God will do what is right: he will bring suffering on those who make you suffer,