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1 Scroll 42 First Epistle to the Thessalonians.
Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, to the Church of the Thessalonians,
in God the Father and Lord Jesus Christ:
Grace be to you, and peace from God our Father and Lord Jesus Christ.

2 We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;

3 constantly remembering 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;

4 knowing, brethren beloved by God, your election.

5 For our Gospel came not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit,
and in much full assurance; as ye have known what manner of men we were among you for your sakes.

6 And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Spirit:

7 so that ye were examples to all that believing, in Macedonia and Achaia.

8 For from you sounded out the word of the LORD not only in Macedonia and Achaia,
but also in every place your faith towards GOD has gone forth; so that we to have no need to speak anything.

9 For they themselves show of us what manner of entrance we had to you, and how ye turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God;

10 and to wait for His Son from the Heavens, whom He raised from the dead, Jesus, who delivering us from the wrath that is coming.

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1 For yourselves, brethren, have known our entrance to you, that it has been not in vain:

2 but even after we had suffered before, and were shamefully treated, as ye have known, at Philippi,
we were bold in our God to speak to you the Gospel of God with much contention.

3 For our exhortation was not from deceit, nor from impurity, nor in guile;

4 but as we were approved by God to be entrusted with the Gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who proving our hearts.

5 For at no time did we come with flattering words, as ye have known, nor a cloak of covetousness; God is witness:

6 nor from men sought we glory, neither from you, nor yet from others, being able to be burdensome, as Christ's apostles.

7 But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherishes her children.

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So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted to you,
not the Gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were beloved to us.

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For ye remember, brethren, our labour and toil: for labouring night and day,
because we would not be chargeable to any of you, we preached to you the Gospel of God.

10 Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily, and justly, and blamelessly we were to you, those that believing.

11 As ye have known how we every one of you (as a father for his children) we are exhorting you, and comforting, and testifying,

12 that ye would walk worthy of God, who calling you into His Kingdom and glory.

13 Therefore we also constantly thank God, because, when ye received the Word of GOD which ye heard from us,
ye accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is truly, the Word of GOD, which effectually works also in you that believing.

14 For ye, brethren, became followers of the Churches of God which being in Judea in Christ Jesus:
for ye also have suffered these things from your own countrymen, even as they have from the Jews:

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:

16 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always: for the wrath is come upon them to the end.

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But we, brethren, being taken from you for an hour[short time] in presence, not in heart,
endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.

18 Therefore we would have to come to you, I indeed: Paul, once and twice; but Satan hindered us.

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?

20 For ye are our glory and joy.

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1 Therefore, when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone;

2 And sent Timothy, our brother, and minister of God,
and our fellow-worker in the Gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith:

3 that no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves have known that we are appointed to it.

4 For also, when we were with you, we told you before that we should be afflicted; even as it came to pass, and ye have known.

5 Therefore, I also could no longer forbearing, I sent to know your faith,
lest the tempter may have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.

6 But now when Timothy came from you to us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and love,
and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you.

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Therefore, brethren, by your faith we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress:

8 for now we live, if ye may stand fast in the Lord;

9 for what thanksgiving can we recompense to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God;

10 night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

11 Now God Himself and our Father, and may our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you.

12 And may the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one towards another, and towards all, even as we do towards you:

13 to the end He may establish your hearts blameless in Holiness before God,
even our Father, at the Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His Saints.

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1 Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you in Lord Jesus,
that as ye received from us how ye ought to walk and to please God, that ye may abound more and more.

2 For ye have known what Commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication.

4 That each one of you to know to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

5 Not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God:

6 that no one go beyond and defraud his brother in this matter: because the Lord is the avenger of all such,
as we also forewarned and testified.

7 For God has not called us to uncleanness, but to sanctification.

8 He therefore that despising, despises not man, but God, who has also given to us His Holy Spirit.

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But concerning brotherly love ye need not that I write to you: for ye yourselves are taught by God to love one another.

10 For also ye do it towards all the brethren who are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;

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;

12 That ye should walk honestly towards them that are outsiders, and that ye may have need of nothing.

13 Now I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren,
concerning them who are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others who having no hope.

14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also who having fallen asleep through Jesus will God bring with Him.

15 For this we say to you by the word of the LORD,
that we who are alive and remain to the Coming of the Lord may not precede them who are asleep.

16 For the Lord Himself will descend from Heaven with a shout,
with the voice of an Archangel, and with the shofar of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

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 so shall we always be with the Lord.

18 Therefore, comfort one another with these words.

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1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write to you.

2 For yourselves have known perfectly that the Day of the LORD so Comes as a thief in the night.

3 For when they may say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes upon them,
as travail upon pregnant woman; and they shall not escape.

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But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as thieves.

5 Ye are all Children of Light, and children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

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

8 But we, being of the day, let us be sober,
having put on the Breast-plate of Faith and Love; and for a Helmet, the Hope of Salvation. Isa 59:17

9 For God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain Salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

10 who died for us, that, whether we may wake or sleep, we may live together with Him.

11 Therefore, comfort one another, and build up one another, as also ye do.

12 And we beseech you, brethren, to know them who labour among you,
and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;

13 And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves.

14 Now we exhort you, brethren, admonish them that are disorderly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the weak, be patient towards all.

15 See that none render evil for evil to anyone; but ye always pursue that which is good, both among one another, and to all.

16 Rejoice always.

17 Pray constantly.

18 In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

19 Quench not the Spirit.

20 Despise not prophesies.

21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

22 Abstain from every form of evil.

23 And may the God of Peace Himself sanctify you wholly;
and your whole spirit and soul and body may be preserved blamelessly to the Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

24 Faithful is He who calling you, who also will do.

25 Brethren, pray for us.

26 Greet all the brethren with a Holy kiss.

27 I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read to all the Holy brethren.

28 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen!