Study Desk

But Christ has brought you back to God by His death on the cross. In this way, Christ can bring you to God, holy and pure and without blame.

Now I am full of joy to be suffering for you. In my own body I am doing my share of what has to be done to make Christ's sufferings complete. This is for His body which is the Church.

I became a preacher in His church for your good. In the plan of God I am to preach the Good News.

Such people are not a part of Christ. Christ is the Head. We Christians make up His body. We are joined together as a body is held together. Our strength to grow comes from Christ.

Christ is our life. When He comes again, you will also be with Him to share His shining-greatness.

Let the peace of Christ have power over your hearts. You were chosen as a part of His body. Always be thankful.

Let the teaching of Christ and His words keep on living in you. These make your lives rich and full of wisdom. Keep on teaching and helping each other. Sing the Songs of David and the church songs and the songs of heaven with hearts full of thanks to God.

This letter is from Paul and Silas and Timothy. It is to you, the church, in the city of Thessalonica. You belong to God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. May you have His loving-favor and His peace.

They tell us how you are waiting for His Son Jesus to come down from heaven. God raised Him from the dead. It is Jesus Who will save us from the anger of God that is coming.

As a father helps his children, you know how we wanted to help you and give you comfort. We told you with strong words

that you should live to please God. He is the One Who chose you to come into His holy nation and to share His shining-greatness.

God wants each of you to use his body in the right way by keeping it holy and by respecting it.

No man should do wrong to his Christian brother in anything. The Lord will punish a person who does. I have told you this before.

The one who turns away from this teaching does not turn away from man, but from God. It is God Who has given us His Holy Spirit.

God planned to save us from the punishment of sin through our Lord Jesus Christ. He did not plan for us to suffer from His anger.

God wants you to prove yourselves to be worth being in His holy nation by suffering for Him.

He will help you and us who are suffering. This will happen when the Lord Jesus comes down from heaven with His powerful angels in a bright fire.

They will be punished forever and taken away from the Lord and from the shining-greatness of His power.

On the day He comes, His shining-greatness will be seen in those who belong to Him. On that day, He will receive honor from all those who put their trust in Him. You believed what we had to say to you.

For this reason, we always pray for you. We pray that our God will make you worth being chosen. We pray that His power will help you do the good things you want to do. We pray that your work of faith will be complete.