The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

night and day exceedingly beseeching, that we might see your face, and perfect the things lacking in your faith.

And our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you,

and you the Lord cause to increase and to abound in the love to one another, and to all, even as we also to you,

to the establishing your hearts blameless in sanctification before our God and Father, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.

As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,

for ye have known what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus,

for this is the will of God — your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,

that each of you know his own vessel to possess in sanctification and honour,

not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,

that no one go beyond and defraud in the matter his brother, because an avenger [is] the Lord of all these, as also we spake before to you and testified,

for God did not call us on uncleanness, but in sanctification;

he, therefore, who is despising — doth not despise man, but God, who also did give His Holy Spirit to us.

And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of [my] writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another,

for ye do it also to all the brethren who [are] in all Macedonia; and we call upon you, brethren, to abound still more,

and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you,

that ye may walk becomingly unto those without, and may have lack of nothing.

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope,

for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also God those asleep through Jesus he will bring with him,

for this to you we say in the word of the Lord, that we who are living — who do remain over to the presence of the Lord — may not precede those asleep,

because the Lord himself, in a shout, in the voice of a chief-messenger, and in the trump of God, shall come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ shall rise first,

then we who are living, who are remaining over, together with them shall be caught away in clouds to meet the Lord in air, and so always with the Lord we shall be;

so, then, comfort ye one another in these words.

And concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need of my writing to you,

for yourselves have known thoroughly that the day of the Lord as a thief in the night doth so come,

for when they may say, Peace and surety, then sudden destruction doth stand by them, as the travail [doth] her who is with child, and they shall not escape;

and ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day may catch you as a thief;

all ye are sons of light, and sons of day; we are not of night, nor of darkness,

so, then, we may not sleep as also the others, but watch and be sober,

for those sleeping, by night do sleep, and those making themselves drunk, by night are drunken,

and we, being of the day — let us be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and an helmet — a hope of salvation,

because God did not appoint us to anger, but to the acquiring of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

who did die for us, that whether we wake — whether we sleep — together with him we may live;

wherefore, comfort ye one another, and build ye up, one the one, as also ye do.

And we ask you, brethren, to know those labouring among you, and leading you in the Lord, and admonishing you,

and to esteem them very abundantly in love, because of their work; be at peace among yourselves;

and we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the infirm, be patient unto all;

see no one evil for evil may render to any one, but always that which is good pursue ye, both to one another and to all;

always rejoice ye;

continually pray ye;

in every thing give thanks, for this [is] the will of God in Christ Jesus in regard to you.

The Spirit quench not;

prophesyings despise not;

all things prove; that which is good hold fast;

from all appearance of evil abstain ye;

and the God of the peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your whole spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved unblameably in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ;

stedfast is He who is calling you, who also will do [it].

Brethren, pray for us;

salute all the brethren in an holy kiss;

I charge you [by] the Lord, that the letter be read to all the holy brethren;

the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [is] with you! Amen.

Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, to the assembly of Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ:

Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!

We ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because increase greatly doth your faith, and abound doth the love of each one of you all, to one another;

so that we ourselves do glory in you in the assemblies of God, for your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye bear;

a token of the righteous judgment of God, for your being counted worthy of the reign of God, for which also ye suffer,

since [it is] a righteous thing with God to give back to those troubling you — trouble,

and to you who are troubled — rest with us in the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven, with messengers of his power,

in flaming fire, giving vengeance to those not knowing God, and to those not obeying the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ;

who shall suffer justice — destruction age-during — from the face of the Lord, and from the glory of his strength,

when He may come to be glorified in his saints, and to be wondered at in all those believing — because our testimony was believed among you — in that day;

for which also we do pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of the calling, and may fulfil all the good pleasure of goodness, and the work of the faith in power,

that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and Lord Jesus Christ.

And we ask you, brethren, in regard to the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of our gathering together unto him,

that ye be not quickly shaken in mind, nor be troubled, neither through spirit, neither through word, neither through letters as through us, as that the day of Christ hath arrived;

let not any one deceive you in any manner, because — if the falling away may not come first, and the man of sin be revealed — the son of the destruction,

who is opposing and is raising himself up above all called God or worshipped, so that he in the sanctuary of God as God hath sat down, shewing himself off that he is God — [the day doth not come].

Do ye not remember that, being yet with you, these things I said to you?

and now, what is keeping down ye have known, for his being revealed in his own time,

for the secret of the lawlessness doth already work, only he who is keeping down now [will hinder] — till he may be out of the way,

and then shall be revealed the Lawless One, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the manifestation of his presence,

[him,] whose presence is according to the working of the Adversary, in all power, and signs, and lying wonders,

and in all deceitfulness of the unrighteousness in those perishing, because the love of the truth they did not receive for their being saved,

and because of this shall God send to them a working of delusion, for their believing the lie,

that they may be judged — all who did not believe the truth, but were well pleased in the unrighteousness.

And we — we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved by the Lord, that God did choose you from the beginning to salvation, in sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth,

to which He did call you through our good news, to the acquiring of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ;

so, then, brethren, stand ye fast, and hold the deliverances that ye were taught, whether through word, whether through our letter;

and may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who did love us, and did give comfort age-during, and good hope in grace,

comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work.

As to the rest, pray ye, brethren, concerning us, that the word of the Lord may run and may be glorified, as also with you,

and that we may be delivered from the unreasonable and evil men, for the faith [is] not of all;

and stedfast is the Lord, who shall establish you, and shall guard [you] from the evil;

and we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that the things that we command you ye both do and will do;

and the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God, and to the endurance of the Christ.

And we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother disorderly walking, and not after the deliverance that ye received from us,

for yourselves have known how it behoveth [you] to imitate us, because we did not act disorderly among you;

nor for nought did we eat bread of any one, but in labour and in travail, night and day working, not to be chargeable to any of you;

not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;

for even when we were with you, this we did command you, that if any one is not willing to work, neither let him eat,

for we hear of certain walking among you disorderly, nothing working, but over working,

and such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness working, their own bread they may eat;

and ye, brethren, may ye not be weary doing well,

and if any one do not obey our word through the letter, this one note ye, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed,

and as an enemy count [him] not, but admonish ye [him] as a brother;

and may the Lord of the peace Himself give to you the peace always in every way; the Lord [is] with you all!

The salutation by the hand of me, Paul, which is a sign in every letter; thus I write;

the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [is] with you all! Amen.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to a command of God our Saviour, and of the Lord Jesus Christ our hope,

to Timotheus — genuine child in faith: Grace, kindness, peace, from God our Father, and Christ Jesus our Lord,

according as I did exhort thee to remain in Ephesus — I going on to Macedonia — that thou mightest charge certain not to teach any other thing,