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And haue sent Timotheus our brother and minister of God, and our labour felow in the Gospel of Christ, to stablish you, and to comfort you touching your faith,

For what thankes can wee recompense to God againe for you, for all the ioy wherewith we reioyce for your sakes before our God,

Nowe God himselfe, euen our Father, and our Lord Iesus Christ, guide our iourney vnto you,

To make your hearts stable & vnblameable in holines before God euen our Father, at the comming of our Lord Iesus Christ wt all his Saints.

And furthermore we beseeche you, brethren, and exhort you in the Lord Iesus, that ye increase more and more, as ye haue receiued of vs, how ye ought to walke, and to please God.

For this is the will of God euen your sanctification, and that ye should abstaine from fornication,

And not in the lust of concupiscence, euen as the Gentiles which know not God:

For God hath not called vs vnto vncleannesse, but vnto holinesse.

Hee therefore that despiseth these thinges, despiseth not man, but God who hath euen giuen you his holy Spirit.

But as touching brotherly loue, ye neede not that I write vnto you: for ye are taught of God to loue one another.

For if we beleeue that Iesus is dead, and is risen, euen so them which sleepe in Iesus, will God bring with him.

For the Lorde himselfe shall descende from heauen with a shoute, and with the voyce of the Archangel, and with the trumpet of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

For God hath not appointed vs vnto wrath, but to obtaine saluation by the meanes of our Lord Iesus Christ,

In all thinges giue thankes: for this is the will of God in Christ Iesus toward you.

Nowe the very God of peace sanctifie you throughout: and I pray God that your whole spirite and soule and body, may be kept blamelesse vnto the comming of our Lord Iesus Christ.

Paul and Siluanus, and Timotheus, vnto the Church of the Thessalonians, which is in God our Father, and in the Lord Iesus Christ:

Grace be with you, & peace fro God our Father, and from the Lorde Iesus Christ.

We ought to thanke God alwayes for you, brethren, as it is meete, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the loue of euery one of you toward another, aboundeth,

So that we our selues reioyce of you in the Churches of God, because of your patience & faith in al your persecutions & tribulatios that ye suffer,

Which is a manifest token of the righteous iudgement of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdome of God, for the which ye also suffer.