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For ye are our glory and our joy.

that no man be moved by these afflictions; for yourselves know that hereunto we are appointed.

For verily, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction; even as it came to pass, and ye know.

For this cause I also, when I could no longer forbear, sent that I might know your faith, lest by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labour should be in vain.

for this cause, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith:

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

For what thanksgiving can we render again unto God for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;

For ye know what charge we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

For this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;

For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

But concerning love of the brethren ye have no need that one write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another;

for indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, that ye abound more and more;

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

For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we that are alive, that are left unto the coming of the Lord, shall in no wise precede them that are fallen asleep.

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

for ye are all sons of light, and sons of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness;

For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

But let us, since we are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

For God appointed us not unto wrath, but unto the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,