1 Thessalonians 1:1; 1 Thessalonians 1:3; 1 Thessalonians 1:5; 1 Thessalonians 1:6; 1 Thessalonians 1:7; 1 Thessalonians 1:8; 1 Thessalonians 1:9; 1 Thessalonians 1:10; 1 Thessalonians 2:2; 1 Thessalonians 2:8; 1 Thessalonians 2:9; 1 Thessalonians 2:10; 1 Thessalonians 2:11; 1 Thessalonians 2:12; 1 Thessalonians 2:13; 1 Thessalonians 2:14; 1 Thessalonians 2:15; 1 Thessalonians 2:18; 1 Thessalonians 2:19; 1 Thessalonians 2:20; 1 Thessalonians 3:2; 1 Thessalonians 3:4; 1 Thessalonians 3:5; 1 Thessalonians 3:6; 1 Thessalonians 3:7; 1 Thessalonians 3:10; 1 Thessalonians 3:11; 1 Thessalonians 3:12; 1 Thessalonians 3:13; 1 Thessalonians 4:1; 1 Thessalonians 4:4; 1 Thessalonians 4:5; 1 Thessalonians 4:6; 1 Thessalonians 4:8; 1 Thessalonians 4:10; 1 Thessalonians 4:11; 1 Thessalonians 4:12; 1 Thessalonians 4:13; 1 Thessalonians 4:14; 1 Thessalonians 4:16; 1 Thessalonians 4:17; 1 Thessalonians 5:1; 1 Thessalonians 5:3; 1 Thessalonians 5:5; 1 Thessalonians 5:6; 1 Thessalonians 5:7; 1 Thessalonians 5:8; 1 Thessalonians 5:11; 1 Thessalonians 5:12; 1 Thessalonians 5:13; 1 Thessalonians 5:15; 1 Thessalonians 5:23; 1 Thessalonians 5:24

1 Thessalonians 1:1

1 Paul, Silas and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace and peace to you.

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3 We remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

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5 because our gospel came to you not simply with words but also with power, with the Holy Spirit and deep conviction. You know how we lived among you for your sake.

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6 You became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you welcomed the message in the midst of severe suffering with the joy given by the Holy Spirit.

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7 And so you became a model to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia.

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8 The Lord’s message rang out from you not only in Macedonia and Achaia—your faith in God has become known everywhere. Therefore we do not need to say anything about it,

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9 for they themselves report what kind of reception you gave us. They tell how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,

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10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead—Jesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath.

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2 We had previously suffered and been treated outrageously in Philippi, as you know, but with the help of our God we dared to tell you his gospel in the face of strong opposition.

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8 so we cared for you. Because we loved you so much, we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God but our lives as well.

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9 Surely you remember, brothers and sisters, our toil and hardship; we worked night and day in order not to be a burden to anyone while we preached the gospel of God to you.

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10 You are witnesses, and so is God, of how holy, righteous and blameless we were among you who believed.

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11 For you know that we dealt with each of you as a father deals with his own children,

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12 encouraging, comforting and urging you to live lives worthy of God, who calls you into his kingdom and glory.

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13 And we also thank God continually because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is indeed at work in you who believe.

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14 For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of God’s churches in Judea, which are in Christ Jesus: You suffered from your own people the same things those churches suffered from the Jews

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15 who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets and also drove us out. They displease God and are hostile to everyone

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18 For we wanted to come to you—certainly I, Paul, did, again and again—but Satan blocked our way.

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19 For what is our hope, our joy, or the crown in which we will glory in the presence of our Lord Jesus when he comes? Is it not you?

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20 Indeed, you are our glory and joy.

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2 We sent Timothy, who is our brother and co-worker in God’s service in spreading the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you in your faith,

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4 In fact, when we were with you, we kept telling you that we would be persecuted. And it turned out that way, as you well know.

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5 For this reason, when I could stand it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith. I was afraid that in some way the tempter had tempted you and that our labors might have been in vain.

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6 But Timothy has just now come to us from you and has brought good news about your faith and love. He has told us that you always have pleasant memories of us and that you long to see us, just as we also long to see you.

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7 Therefore, brothers and sisters, in all our distress and persecution we were encouraged about you because of your faith.

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10 Night and day we pray most earnestly that we may see you again and supply what is lacking in your faith.

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11 Now may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus clear the way for us to come to you.

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12 May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you.

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13 May he strengthen your hearts so that you will be blameless and holy in the presence of our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his holy ones.

1 Thessalonians 4:1

1 As for other matters, brothers and sisters, we instructed you how to live in order to please God, as in fact you are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and more.

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4 that each of you should learn to control your own body in a way that is holy and honorable,

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5 not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God;

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6 and that in this matter no one should wrong or take advantage of a brother or sister. The Lord will punish all those who commit such sins, as we told you and warned you before.

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8 Therefore, anyone who rejects this instruction does not reject a human being but God, the very God who gives you his Holy Spirit.

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10 And in fact, you do love all of God’s family throughout Macedonia. Yet we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more,

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11 and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you,

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12 so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.

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13 Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope.

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14 For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him.

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16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

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17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.

1 Thessalonians 5:1

1 Now, brothers and sisters, about times and dates we do not need to write to you,

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3 While people are saying, “Peace and safety,” destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

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5 You are all children of the light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness.

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6 So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be awake and sober.

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7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.

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8 But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet.

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11 Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.

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12 Now we ask you, brothers and sisters, to acknowledge those who work hard among you, who care for you in the Lord and who admonish you.

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13 Hold them in the highest regard in love because of their work. Live in peace with each other.

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15 Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else.

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23 May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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24 The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it.