And we beseech you, brethren, to know them who labour among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you;
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1 Thessalonians
That you esteem them more abundantly in charity, for their work's sake. Have peace with them.
And we beseech you, brethren, rebuke the unquiet: comfort the feeble minded: support the weak: be patient towards all men.
See that none render evil for evil to any man: but ever follow that which is good towards each other and towards all men.
Always rejoice.
Pray without ceasing.
In all things give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you all.
Extinguish not the spirit.
Despise not prophecies.
But prove all things: hold fast that which is good.
From all appearance of evil refrain yourselves.
And may the God of peace himself sanctify you in all things: that your whole spirit and soul and body may be preserved blameless in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
He is faithful who hath called you, who also will do it.
Brethren, pray for us.
Salute all the brethren with a holy kiss.
I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read to all the holy brethren.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
2 Thessalonians
Paul and Sylvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians. In God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,
Grace unto you: and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
We are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren, as it is fitting, because your faith groweth exceedingly and the charity of every one of you towards each other aboundeth.
So that we ourselves also glory in you in the churches of God, for your patience and faith, and in all your persecutions and tribulations: which you endure
For an example of the just judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which also you suffer.
Seeing it is a just thing with God to repay tribulation to them that trouble you:
And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with the angels of his power:
In a flame of fire, giving vengeance to them who know not God and who obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Who shall suffer eternal punishment in destruction, from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his power:
When he shall come to be glorified in his saints and to be made wonderful in all them who have believed; because our testimony was believed upon you in that day.
Wherefore also we pray always for you: That our God would make you worthy of his vocation and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness and the work of faith in power:
That the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and of our gathering together unto him:
That you be not easily moved from your sense nor be terrified, neither by spirit nor by word nor by epistle, as sent from us, as if the day of the Lord were at hand.
Let no man deceive you by any means: for unless there come a revolt first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition
Who opposeth and is lifted up above all that is called God or that is worshipped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself as if he were God.
Remember you not that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
And now you know what withholdeth, that he may be revealed in his time.
For the mystery of iniquity already worketh: only that he who now holdeth do hold, until he be taken out of the way.
And then that wicked one shall be revealed: whom the Lord Jesus shall kill with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: him
Whose coming is according to the working of Satan, in all power and signs and lying wonders:
And in all seduction of iniquity to them that perish: because they receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. Therefore God shall send them the operation of error, to believe lying:
That all may be judged who have not believed the truth but have consented to iniquity.
But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved of God, for that God hath chosen you firstfruits unto salvation, in sanctification of the spirit and faith of the truth:
Whereunto also he hath called you by our gospel, unto the purchasing of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, brethren, stand fast: and hold the traditions, which you have learned, whether by word or by our epistle.
Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God and our Father, who hath loved us and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope in grace,
Exhort your hearts and confirm you in every good work and word.
For the rest, brethren, pray for us that the word of God may run and may be glorified, even as among you:
And that we may be delivered from importunate and evil men: for all men have not faith.
But God is faithful, who will strengthen and keep you from evil.
And we have confidence concerning you in the Lord that the things which we command, you both do and will do.
And the Lord direct your hearts, in the charity of God and the patience of Christ.
And we charge you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother walking disorderly and not according to the tradition which they have received of us.
For yourselves know how you ought to imitate us. For we were not disorderly among you.
Neither did we eat any man's bread for nothing: but in labour and in toil we worked night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you.
Not as if we had not power: but that we might give ourselves a pattern unto you, to imitate us.
For also, when we were with you, this we declared to you: that, if any man will not work, neither let him eat.
For we have heard there are some among you who walk disorderly: working not at all, but curiously meddling.
Now we charge them that are such and beseech them by the Lord Jesus Christ that, working with silence, they would eat their own bread.
But you, brethren, be not weary in well doing.
And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed.
Yet do not esteem him as an enemy but admonish him as a brother.
Now the Lord of peace himself give you everlasting peace in every place. The Lord be with you all.
The salutation of Paul with my own hand: which is the sign in every epistle. So I write.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
1 Timothy
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the commandment of God our Saviour and Christ Jesus our hope:
To Timothy, his beloved son in faith. Grace, mercy and peace, from God the Father and from Christ Jesus our Lord.
As I desired thee to remain at Ephesus when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some not to teach otherwise:
Not to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which furnish questions rather than the edification of God which is in faith.
Now the end of the commandment is charity from a pure heart, and a good conscience, and an unfeigned faith.
From which things some, going astray, are turned aside unto vain babbling:
Desiring to be teachers of the law: understanding neither the things they say, nor whereof they affirm.
But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully.
Knowing this: That the law is not made for the just man but for the unjust and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the wicked and defiled, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
For fornicators, for them who defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and whatever other thing is contrary to sound doctrine:
Which is according to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God which hath been committed to my trust.
I give him thanks who hath strengthened me, even to Christ Jesus our Lord, for that he hath counted me faithful, putting me in the ministry:
Who before was a blasphemer and a persecutor and contumelious. But I obtained the mercy of God, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
Now the grace of our Lord hath abounded exceedingly with faith and love, which is in Christ Jesus.
A faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the chief.
But for this cause have I obtained mercy: that in me first Christ Jesus might shew forth all patience, for the information of them that shall believe in him unto life everlasting.
Now to the king of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
This precept, I commend to thee, O son Timothy: according to the prophecies going before on thee, that thou war in them a good warfare,
Having faith and a good conscience, which some rejecting have made shipwreck concerning the faith.
Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander, whom I have delivered up to Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.
I desire therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions and thanksgivings be made for all men:
For kings and for all that are in high station: that we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life in all piety and chastity.
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour,
Who will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
For there is one God: and one mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus:
Who gave himself a redemption for all, a testimony in due times.
Whereunto I am appointed a preacher and an apostle (I say the truth, I lie not), a doctor of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
I will therefore that men pray in every place, lifting up pure hands, without anger and contention.
In like manner, women also in decent apparel: adorning themselves with modesty and sobriety, not with plaited hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly attire:
But, as it becometh women professing godliness, with good works.
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to use authority over the man: but to be in silence.
For Adam was first formed; then Eve.
And Adam was not seduced; but the woman, being seduced, was in the transgression.
Yet she shall be saved through child bearing; if she continue in faith and love and sanctification with sobriety.
A faithful saying: If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth good work.
It behoveth therefore a bishop to be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, prudent, of good behaviour, chaste, given to hospitality, a teacher,