1st Thessalonians1:1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1st Thessalonians1:2 We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;
1st Thessalonians1:3 Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
1st Thessalonians1:4 Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.
1st Thessalonians1:5 For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.
1st Thessalonians1:6 And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:
1st Thessalonians1:7 So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.
1st Thessalonians1:8 For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.
1st Thessalonians1:9 For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;
1st Thessalonians1:10 And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
1st Thessalonians2:1 For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain:
1st Thessalonians2:2 But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention.
1st Thessalonians2:3 For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
1st Thessalonians2:4 But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.
1st Thessalonians2:5 For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:
1st Thessalonians2:6 Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.
1st Thessalonians2:7 But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:
1st Thessalonians2:8 So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.
1st Thessalonians2:9 For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
1st Thessalonians2:10 Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:
1st Thessalonians2:11 As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,
1st Thessalonians2:12 That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
1st Thessalonians2:13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
1st Thessalonians2:14 For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:
1st Thessalonians2:15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
1st Thessalonians2:16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
1st Thessalonians2:17 But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.
1st Thessalonians2:18 Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.
1st Thessalonians2:19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
1st Thessalonians2:20 For ye are our glory and joy.
1st Thessalonians3:1 Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone;
1st Thessalonians3:2 And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith:
1st Thessalonians3:3 That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.
1st Thessalonians3:4 For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know.
1st Thessalonians3:5 For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.
1st Thessalonians3:6 But now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you:
1st Thessalonians3:7 Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:
1st Thessalonians3:8 For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.
1st Thessalonians3:9 For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;
1st Thessalonians3:10 Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
1st Thessalonians3:11 Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.
1st Thessalonians3:12 And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
1st Thessalonians3:13 To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.
1st Thessalonians4:1 Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
1st Thessalonians4:2 For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
1st Thessalonians4:3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
1st Thessalonians4:4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
1st Thessalonians4:5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
1st Thessalonians4:6 That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
1st Thessalonians4:7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
1st Thessalonians4:8 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
1st Thessalonians4:9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
1st Thessalonians4:10 And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;
1st Thessalonians4:11 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
1st Thessalonians4:12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
1st Thessalonians4:13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
1st Thessalonians4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
1st Thessalonians4:15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
1st Thessalonians4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
1st Thessalonians4:17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
1st Thessalonians4:18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
1st Thessalonians5:1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
1st Thessalonians5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
1st Thessalonians5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
1st Thessalonians5:4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
1st Thessalonians5:5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
1st Thessalonians5:6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
1st Thessalonians5:7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
1st Thessalonians5:8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
1st Thessalonians5:9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
1st Thessalonians5:10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
1st Thessalonians5:11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
1st Thessalonians5:12 And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
1st Thessalonians5:13 And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves.
1st Thessalonians5:14 Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.
1st Thessalonians5:15 See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.
1st Thessalonians5:16 Rejoice evermore.
1st Thessalonians5:17 Pray without ceasing.
1st Thessalonians5:18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
1st Thessalonians5:19 Quench not the Spirit.
1st Thessalonians5:20 Despise not prophesyings.
1st Thessalonians5:21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
1st Thessalonians5:22 Abstain from all appearance of evil.
1st Thessalonians5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1st Thessalonians5:24 Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.
1st Thessalonians5:25 Brethren, pray for us.
1st Thessalonians5:26 Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss.
1st Thessalonians5:27 I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren.
1st Thessalonians5:28 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.