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For what thanks can we give to God for you in return for all the joy with which we rejoice because of you before our God,

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

and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life and attend to your own business and work with your hands, just as we instructed you,

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose from the dead, so also God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep through Jesus.

For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

Then we who are alive, who remain, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.

Therefore, comfort one another with these words.

who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him.

and that you regard them very highly in love because of their work. Live in peace with one another.

We urge you, brothers and sisters, admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with everyone.

See that no one repays another with evil for evil, but always seek what is good for one another and for all people.

Greet all the brothers and sisters with a holy kiss.

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

For after all it is only right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

and to give relief to you who are afflicted, along with us, when the Lord Jesus will be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels

To this end also we pray for you always, that our God will consider you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire for goodness and the work of faith with power,

so that the name of our Lord Jesus will be glorified in you, and you in Him, in accordance with the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Do you not remember that while I was still with you, I was telling you these things?

Then that lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will eliminate with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming;

that is, the one whose coming is in accord with the activity of Satan, with all power and false signs and wonders,