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the persons who slew our Lord Jesus the Messiah, and persecuted their own prophets and us; and they please not God, and are made hostile to all men;

and to send to you Timothy our brother, a servant of God, and our assistant in the announcement of the Messiah; that he might strengthen you, and inquire of you respecting your faith:

For what thanks can we render to God in your behalf, for all the joy with which we are joyful on your account;

unless it be, that we the more supplicate before God, by night and by day, that we may see your faces, and may perfect what is lacking in your faith?

And may God our Father, and our Lord Jesus the Messiah, direct our way unto you;

and establish your hearts unblamable in holiness, before God our Father; at the advent of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, with all his saints.

Wherefore, my brethren, I entreat you, and beseech you by our Lord Jesus, that, as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk, and to please God, so ye would make progress more and more.

For this is the pleasure of God, your sanctification; and that ye be separated from all whoredom;

and not in the concupiscence of lust, like the rest of the Gentiles who know not God:

For God did not call you unto impurity, but to sanctification.

He therefore who spurneth, spurneth not man but God, who hath given his Holy Spirit in you.

Now concerning love to the brethren, ye need not that I should write to you; for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

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

Because our Lord will himself descend from heaven, with the mandate, and with the voice of the chief angel, and with the trump of God; and the dead who are in the Messiah, will first arise;

For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to the acquisition of life, by our Lord Jesus the Messiah:

And in every thing be thankful: For this is the pleasure of God in Jesus the Messiah, concerning you.

And may the God of peace sanctify you all, perfectly, and keep blameless your whole spirit, and your soul, and your body, till the coming of our Lord Jesus the Messiah.

PAUL and Sylvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians, which is in God our Father and our Lord Jesus the Messiah:

Grace be with you, and peace, from God our Father, and from our Lord Jesus the Messiah.

We are bound to give thanks to God always, on your account, my brethren, as it is proper; because your faith groweth exceedingly, and, in you all, the love of each for his fellow increaseth.