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For our exhortation [was] not from deceit, nor from impurity, nor in guile;

For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God [is] witness:

For ye remember, brethren, our labor and toil: for laboring night and day, because we would not be chargeable to any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.

For this cause also we thank God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard from us, ye received [it] not [as] the word of men, but (as it is in truth) the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things from your own countrymen, even as they [have] from the Jews:

Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavored the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.

For what [is] our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? [Are] not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?

For ye are our glory and joy.

That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed to it.

For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know.

For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter may have tempted you, and our labor be in vain.

For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.

For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God;

For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

For this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain from lewdness.

For God hath not called us to uncleanness, but to holiness.

But concerning brotherly love ye need not that I write to you: for ye yourselves are taught by God to love one another.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also who sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive [and] remain to the coming of the Lord shall not precede them who are asleep.