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For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God in Christ Jesus, which are in Judea; for ye also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, as they likewise from the Jews:

Who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us: and they please not God, and are contrary to all men.

And sent Timotheus our brother and minister of God and our fellow-worker in the gospel of Christ, to establish you and to comfort you concerning your faith,

For what thanks can we render to God for you, for all the joy wherewith we rejoice for your sake before our God?

Now our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus direct our way unto you.

That he may establish your hearts unblameable in holiness (before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ) with all his saints.

It remaineth then, brethren, that we beseech and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, that ye abound therein more and more.

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

Not in passionate desire, as the Gentiles who know not God.

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

He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man but God; who hath also given you his Holy Spirit.

Touching brotherly love, we need not write to you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

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

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first.

For God hath not appointed us to wrath,

for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly: and may the whole of you, the spirit and the soul and the body, be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Paul and Silvanus and Timotheus to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Grace be unto you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ.

We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because your faith groweth exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth.