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For you are our glory and joy.

For when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we were to suffer affliction; just as it has come to pass, and as you know.

For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent that I might know your faith, for fear that somehow the tempter had tempted you and that our labor would be in vain.

for this reason, brethren, in all our distress and affliction we have been comforted about you through your faith;

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

For what thanksgiving can we render to God for you, for all the joy which we feel for your sake before our God,

For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from unchastity;

that each one of you know how to take a wife for himself in holiness and honor,

For God has not called us for uncleanness, but in holiness.

But concerning love of the brethren you have no need to have any one write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another;

For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.

For this we declare to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, shall not precede those who have fallen asleep.

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the archangel's call, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first;

For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

But you are not in darkness, brethren, for that day to surprise you like a thief.

For you are all sons of light and sons of the day; we are not of the night or of darkness.

For those who sleep sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night.

But, since we belong to the day, let us be sober, and put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.

For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,