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For what doyng of thankingis moun we yelde to God for you, in al ioye, in which we ioyen for you bifor oure Lord?

But God hym silf and oure fadir, and the Lord Jhesu Crist, dresse oure weye to you.

that youre hertis ben confermyd with outen pleynt in holynesse, bifor God and oure fadir, in the comyng of oure Lord Jhesu Crist with alle hise seyntis. Amen.

Therfor, britheren, fro hennus forward we preien you, and bisechen in the Lord Jhesu, that as ye han resseyued of vs, hou it bihoueth you to go and to plese God, so walke ye, that ye abounde the more.

For this is the wille of God, youre holynesse, that ye absteyne you fro fornycacioun.

not in passioun of lust, as hethene men that knowen not God.

For God clepide not vs in to vnclennesse, but in to holynesse.

Therfor he that dispisith these thingis, dispisith not man, but God, that also yaf his holi spirit in vs.

But of the charite of britherhed we hadden no nede to write to you; ye silf han lerud of God, that ye loue togidere;

For if we bileuen, that Jhesu was deed, and roos ayen, so God schal lede with hym hem that ben deed bi Jhesu.

For the Lord hym silf schal come doun fro heuene, in the comaundement, and in the vois of an archaungel, and in the trumpe of God; and the deed men that ben in Crist, schulen rise ayen first.

For God puttide not vs in to wraththe, but in to the purchasing of heelthe bi oure Lord Jhesu Crist, that was deed for vs;

For this is the wille of God in Crist Jhesu, in alle you.

And God hym silf of pees make you hooli bi alle thingis, that youre spirit be kept hool, and soule, and bodi, without pleynt, in the comyng of oure Lord Jhesu Crist.

God is trewe, that clepide you, which also schal do.

Poul, and Siluan, and Tymothe, to the chirche of Tessalonicensis, in God oure fadir,

and in the Lord Jhesu Crist, grace to you and pees of God, oure fadir, and of the Lord Jhesu Crist.

We owen to do thankyngis eueremore to God for you, britheren, so as it is worthi, for youre feith ouer wexith, and the charite of ech of you to othere aboundith.

So that we silf glorien in you in the chirchis of God, for youre pacience and feith in alle youre persecuciouns and tribulaciouns.

Whiche ye susteynen in to the ensaumple of the iust dom of God, that ye be had worthi in the kingdom of God, for which ye suffren.