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1 THESSALONIANS |
Chapter
1
1TH
1:1 Paul and
Silvanus and Timothy to the church of the
Thessalonians in God the Father and the
Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace.
1TH 1:2 We give thanks to God
always for all of you, making mention of
you in our prayers;
1TH 1:3 constantly bearing in mind
your work of faith and labor of love and
steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus
Christ in the presence of our God and
Father,
1TH 1:4 knowing, brethren beloved
by God, His choice of you;
1TH 1:5 for our gospel did not come
to you in word only, but also in power and
in the Holy Spirit and with full
conviction; just as you know what kind of
men we proved to be among you for your
sake.
1TH 1:6 You also became imitators
of us and of the Lord, having received the
word in much tribulation with the joy of
the Holy Spirit,
1TH 1:7 so that you became an
example to all the believers in Macedonia
and in Achaia.
1TH 1:8 For the word of the Lord
has sounded forth from you, not only in
Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every
place your faith toward God has gone
forth, so that we have no need to say
anything.
1TH 1:9 For they themselves report
about us what kind of a reception we had
with you, and how you turned to God from
idols to serve a living and true God,
1TH 1:10 and to wait for His Son
from heaven, whom He raised from the dead,
that is Jesus, who delivers us from the
wrath to come.
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Chapter
2
1TH
2:1 For you
yourselves know, brethren, that our coming
to you was not in vain,
1TH 2:2 but after we had already
suffered and been mistreated in Philippi,
as you know, we had the boldness in our
God to speak to you the gospel of God amid
much opposition.
1TH 2:3 For our exhortation does
not come from error or impurity or by way
of deceit;
1TH 2:4 but just as we have been
approved by God to be entrusted with the
gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men
but God, who examines our hearts.
1TH 2:5 For we never came with
flattering speech, as you know, nor with a
pretext for greed - - God is witness - -
1TH 2:6 nor did we seek glory from
men, either from you or from others, even
though as apostles of Christ we might have
asserted our authority.
1TH 2:7 But we proved to be gentle
among you, as a nursing mother tenderly
cares for her own children.
1TH 2:8 Having thus a fond
affection for you, we were well-pleased to
impart to you not only the gospel of God
but also our own lives, because you had
become very dear to us.
1TH 2:9 For you recall, brethren,
our labor and hardship, how working night
and day so as not to be a burden to any of
you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of
God.
1TH 2:10 You are witnesses, and so
is God, how devoutly and uprightly and
blamelessly we behaved toward you
believers;
1TH 2:11 just as you know how we
were exhorting and encouraging and
imploring each one of you as a father
would his own children,
1TH 2:12 so that you may walk in a
manner worthy of the God who calls you
into His own kingdom and glory.
1TH 2:13 And for this reason we
also constantly thank God that when you
received from us the word of God's
message, you accepted it not as the word
of men, but for what it really is, the
word of God, which also performs its work
in you who believe.
1TH 2:14 For you, brethren, became
imitators of the churches of God in Christ
Jesus that are in Judea, for you also
endured the same sufferings at the hands
of your own countrymen, even as they did
from the Jews,
1TH 2:15 who both killed the Lord
Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out.
They are not pleasing to God, but hostile
to all men,
1TH 2:16 hindering us from speaking
to the Gentiles that they might be saved;
with the result that they always fill up
the measure of their sins. But wrath has
come upon them to the utmost.
1TH 2:17 But we, brethren, having
been bereft of you for a short while - -
in person, not in spirit - - were all the
more eager with great desire to see your
face.
1TH 2:18 For we wanted to come to
you - - I, Paul, more than once - - and
yet Satan thwarted us.
1TH 2:19 For who is our hope or joy
or crown of exultation? Is it not even
you, in the presence of our Lord Jesus at
His coming?
1TH 2:20 For you are our glory and
joy.
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Chapter
3
1TH
3:1 Therefore
when we could endure it no longer, we
thought it best to be left behind at
Athens alone;
1TH 3:2 and we sent Timothy, our
brother and God's fellow worker in the
gospel of Christ, to strengthen and
encourage you as to your faith,
1TH 3:3 so that no man may be
disturbed by these afflictions; for you
yourselves know that we have been destined
for this.
1TH 3:4 For indeed when we were
with you, we kept telling you in advance
that we were going to suffer affliction;
and so it came to pass, as you know.
1TH 3:5 For this reason, when I
could endure it no longer, I also sent to
find out about your faith, for fear that
the tempter might have tempted you, and
our labor should be in vain.
1TH 3:6 But now that Timothy has
come to us from you, and has brought us
good news of your faith and love, and that
you always think kindly of us, longing to
see us just as we also long to see you,
1TH 3:7 for this reason, brethren,
in all our distress and affliction we were
comforted about you through your faith;
1TH 3:8 for now we really live, if
you stand firm in the Lord.
1TH 3:9 For what thanks can we
render to God for you in return for all
the joy with which we rejoice before our
God on your account,
1TH 3:10 as we night and day keep
praying most earnestly that we may see
your face, and may complete what is
lacking in your faith?
1TH 3:11 Now may our God and Father
Himself and Jesus our Lord direct our way
to you;
1TH 3:12 and may the Lord cause you
to increase and abound in love for one
another, and for all men, just as we also
do for you;
1TH 3:13 so that He may establish
your hearts unblamable in holiness before
our God and Father at the coming of our
Lord Jesus with all His saints.
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Chapter
4
1TH
4:1 Finally
then, brethren, we request and exhort you
in the Lord Jesus, that, as you received
from us instruction as to how you ought to
walk and please God (just as you actually
do walk), that you may excel still more.
1TH 4:2 For you know what
commandments we gave you by the authority
of the Lord Jesus.
1TH 4:3 For this is the will of
God, your sanctification; that is, that
you abstain from sexual immorality;
1TH 4:4 that each of you know how
to possess his own vessel in
sanctification and honor,
1TH 4:5 not in lustful passion,
like the Gentiles who do not know God;
1TH 4:6 and that no man transgress
and defraud his brother in the matter
because the Lord is the avenger in all
these things, just as we also told you
before and solemnly warned you.
1TH 4:7 For God has not called us
for the purpose of impurity, but in
sanctification.
1TH 4:8 Consequently, he who
rejects this is not rejecting man but the
God who gives His Holy Spirit to you.
1TH 4:9 Now as to the love of the
brethren, you have no need for anyone to
write to you, for you yourselves are
taught by God to love one another;
1TH 4:10 for indeed you do practice
it toward all the brethren who are in all
Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, to
excel still more,
1TH 4:11 and to make it your
ambition to lead a quiet life and attend
to your own business and work with your
hands, just as we commanded you;
1TH 4:12 so that you may behave
properly toward outsiders and not be in
any need.
1TH 4:13 But we do not want you to
be uninformed, brethren, about those who
are asleep, that you may not grieve, as do
the rest who have no hope.
1TH 4:14 For if we believe that
Jesus died and rose again, even so God
will bring with Him those who have fallen
asleep in Jesus.
1TH 4:15 For this we say to you by
the word of the Lord, that we who are
alive, and remain until the coming of the
Lord, shall not precede those who have
fallen asleep.
1TH 4:16 For the Lord Himself will
descend from heaven with a shout, with the
voice of the archangel, and with the
trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ
shall rise first.
1TH 4:17 Then we who are alive and
remain shall be caught up together with
them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the
air, and thus we shall always be with the
Lord.
1TH 4:18 Therefore comfort one
another with these words.
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Chapter
5
1TH
5:1 Now as to
the times and the epochs, brethren, you
have no need of anything to be written to
you.
1TH 5:2 For you yourselves know
full well that the day of the Lord will
come just like a thief in the night.
1TH 5:3 While they are saying,
"Peace and safety!" then destruction will
come upon them suddenly like birth pangs
upon a woman with child; and they shall
not escape.
1TH 5:4 But you, brethren, are not
in darkness, that the day should overtake
you like a thief;
1TH 5:5 for you are all sons of
light and sons of day. We are not of night
nor of darkness;
1TH 5:6 so then let us not sleep as
others do, but let us be alert and sober.
1TH 5:7 For those who sleep do
their sleeping at night, and those who get
drunk get drunk at night.
1TH 5:8 But since we are of the
day, let us be sober, having put on the
breastplate of faith and love, and as a
helmet, the hope of salvation.
1TH 5:9 For God has not destined us
for wrath, but for obtaining salvation
through our Lord Jesus Christ,
1TH 5:10 who died for us, that
whether we are awake or asleep, we may
live together with Him.
1TH 5:11 Therefore encourage one
another, and build up one another, just as
you also are doing.
1TH 5:12 But we request of you,
brethren, that you appreciate those who
diligently labor among you, and have
charge over you in the Lord and give you
instruction,
1TH 5:13 and that you esteem them
very highly in love because of their work.
Live in peace with one another.
1TH 5:14 And we urge you, brethren,
admonish the unruly, encourage the
fainthearted, help the weak, be patient
with all men.
1TH 5:15 See that no one repays
another with evil for evil, but always
seek after that which is good for one
another and for all men.
1TH 5:16 Rejoice always;
1TH 5:17 pray without ceasing;
1TH 5:18 in everything give thanks;
for this is God's will for you in Christ
Jesus.
1TH 5:19 Do not quench the Spirit;
1TH 5:20 do not despise prophetic
utterances.
1TH 5:21 But examine everything
carefully; hold fast to that which is
good;
1TH 5:22 abstain from every form of
evil.
1TH 5:23 Now may the God of peace
Himself sanctify you entirely; and may
your spirit and soul and body be preserved
complete, without blame at the coming of
our Lord Jesus Christ.
1TH 5:24 Faithful is He who calls
you, and He also will bring it to pass.
1TH 5:25 Brethren, pray for us.
1TH 5:26 Greet all the brethren
with a holy kiss.
1TH 5:27 I adjure you by the Lord
to have this letter read to all the
brethren.
1TH 5:28 The grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ be with you.
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