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Because of this also God highly exalted Him and gave Him a name above every name,

since he was longing for you all and has been troubled because you heard that he was sick.

because that through the work of Christ he drew near as far as to death, his life having been exposed, that he may fill up your lack of service toward me.

But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss because of Christ.

But, no, rather I also count all things to be loss because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them to be trash, that I might gain Christ

Because truly in Thessalonica you sent to my need, both once and twice.

because of the hope being laid up for you in Heaven, which you heard before in the Word of the truth of the gospel,

because all the fullness was pleased to dwell in Him,

So yearning over you, we were well-pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God, but also our own souls, because you have become beloved to us.

And because of this we give thanks to God without ceasing, that having received the Word of hearing from us, you welcomed it as of God, not as a word of men, but as it is, truly the Word of God, which alsoworks in you, the ones believing.

For, brothers, you became imitators of the assemblies of God being in Judea in Christ Jesus, because you also suffered these things by your own fellow countrymen, as they did also by the Jews,

Because of this, we desired to come to you, truly I, Paul, both once and twice; but Satan hindered us.

Because of this, no longer enduring, I also sent to know your faith, that the tempting one not somehow tempt you, and our labor should come to be in vain.

Because of this we were comforted over you, brothers, on all our affliction and distress through your faith,

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

For what thanks are we able to return to God concerning you, over all the joy with which we rejoice because of you before our God,

not to go beyond and to overreach his brother in the matter, because the avenger concerning all these is the Lord, even as we told you before, and solemnly testified.

Because the Lord Himself shall come down from Heaven with a commanding shout of an archangel's voice, and with God's trumpet. And the dead in Christ will rise again first.

because God has not appointed us to wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

even esteem them most exceedingly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.