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our address to you was without any flattery, as you yourselves can witness, and God is witness that we had no avarice to disguise.

for you remember, my brethren, our labour and toil: how we worked day and night, that in preaching the gospel of God, we might not be chargeable to any of you.

you are witnesses, and God is so too, how holy, how just and irreproachable our behaviour was to you, who believe.

conjuring you to live suitably to the favour of God, who has called you to his kingdom and glory.

nor do we fail of giving thanks to God continually, that, when you received the word of God, which we preach, you did not receive it as the doctrine of men, but as a doctrine that appears to be truly divine, by the influences it displays in you, who believe.

a minister of God, and our collegue in preaching the gospel of Christ, that by establishing you in the faith, and by his exhortations,

how can I be sufficiently thankful to God upon your account, for all the joy, which by your means we have been affected with,

now may God our father, and our Lord Jesus Christ remove all the obstructions of our journey to you.

that by the sanctity of your affections, you may stand unreprov'd in the presence of God our father, when our Lord Jesus Christ shall come with all his holy angels.

and such is the will of God, that you should be holy, and avoid licentiousness;

person unsullied by the vices of the Gentiles, who know not God:

for God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness:

he therefore that violates these precepts, does not despise man, but God, who has endued me with his holy spirit.

As to brotherly love, I have no occasion to write about it, God himself having instructed you to love one another.

for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we must believe that God by Jesus will raise the dead, and assemble them with him.

for the Lord himself will descend from heaven, and by the voice of the archangel, with the trumpet of God, resound the summons: they who died christians shall rise first:

for God did not design to make us the objects of his displeasure, but to effect our felicity by the Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us,

be thankful to God for every thing, for so christians are oblig'd to be.

Now may the God of peace make you intirely holy: may every part of you, your spirit, soul, and body be preserved irreprovable at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians, that believe in God our father, and in the Lord Jesus Christ.