Study Desk

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 this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left to the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them that are asleep.

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 ye yourselves know perfectly, that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

For they that sleep, sleep in the night, and they that are drunken are drunken in the night.

But let us who are of the day keep awake, having put on the breast-plate of faith and love, and for an helmet the hope of salvation.

For God hath not appointed us to wrath,

but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, Who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we may live together with him.

and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you, And to esteem them very highly in love for their works sake, and be at peace among yourselves.

See that none render to any man evil for evil, but ever follow that which is good, both to one another and to all men.

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

Brethren, pray for us.

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.

So that we ourselves glory of you in the churches of God, for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and sufferings which ye endure:

A manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be accounted, worthy of the kingdom of God; for which also ye suffer.

To this end we pray always for you, that our God would make you worthy of this calling, and fulfill in you all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power;

Let no man deceive you by any means, for that day shall not come, unless the falling away come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition,

For the mystery of iniquity already worketh; only he that with-holdeth will with-hold, till he be taken out of the way.

But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to Salvation, thro' sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth.