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For on account of these [fn] , the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience.

And let the peace of the Messiah direct your hearts; for to that ye have been called, in one body; and be ye thankful to the Messiah.

Children, obey your parents in every thing; for this is pleasing before our Lord.

and know ye, that from our Lord ye will receive a recompense as the inheritance; for ye serve the Lord the Messiah.

And pray also for us, that God would open to us a door of speech, for uttering the mystery of the Messiah, for the sake of which I am in bonds;

whom I have sent to you for this purpose, that he might know your affairs, and might comfort your hearts;

Epaphras saluteth you, who is from among you, a servant of the Messiah, always laboring for you in prayer, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the good pleasure of God.

For I testify for him, that he hath great zeal for you, and for them of Laodicea, and for them of Hierapolis.

For we know your election, my brethren, beloved of God.

For our preaching among you, was not in words only; but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in genuine persuasion. Ye also know, how we were among you for your sakes.

And ye were a pattern for all the believers who are in Macedonia and in Achaia.

8 For from you the word of our Lord sounded forth; [fn] not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place, your faith in God is heard of; so that we have no need to say any thing concerning you.

For they declare, what an ingress we had to you, and how ye turned from the worship of idols unto God, that ye might worship the living and true God;

while ye wait for his Son from heaven, that Jesus whom he raised from the dead, who delivereth us from the wrath to come.

For our exhortation proceeded not from deceit, nor from impurity, nor in guile:

For at no time have we used flattering speech; as ye know; nor a cloak of cupidity, God is witness.

For ye recollect, brethren, that we labored and toiled, working with our own hands, by night and by day, that we might not be chargeable to any one of you.

For ye, my brethren, became assimilated to the churches of God in Judaea, the persons who are in Jesus the Messiah; in that ye so suffered, even ye from your own countrymen, as also they from the Jews,

But we, my brethren, have been bereaved of you for a short time, (in visible presence, not in our hearts,) and have the more exerted ourselves, to behold your faces, with great affection.

For what is our hope, and our joy, and the crown of our glorying; unless it be ye, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?