1 THESSALONIANS
1 Thessalonians 1
1 Paul and Silvanus and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians
[which is] in God the Father and [in] the Lord Yahshua the Christ: Grace [be]
unto you, and peace.
2 We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our
prayers;
3 Remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labour
of love and patience of hope in our Lord Yahshua the Christ, in the sight of
God, even our Father,
4 Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.
5 For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power and in the
Holy Spirit and in much assurance; as ye know what sort we were among you for
your sake.
6 And ye became followers of us and of the Lord, having received the word in
much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,
7 So that ye were examples to all that believe in
8 For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in
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
10 And to wait for His Son from heaven, Whom He raised from the dead, [even] Yahshua,
Which delivered us from the wrath to come.
1 For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not
in vain:
2 But even after that we had suffered before and were shamefully entreated, as
ye know, at
3 For our exhortation [was] not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
4 But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we
speak; not as pleasing people, but God, Which trieth our hearts.
5 For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness - God [is a] witness
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6 Nor of people sought we glory, neither of you nor [yet] of others, when we
might have been burdensome as the apostles of the Christ;
7 But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth
her children.
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.
9 For ye remember, brethren, our weariness 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.
10 Ye [are] witnesses, and God [also], how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe,
11 As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a
father [doth] his children,
12 That ye would walk worthy of God, Who called you unto His kingdom and glory.
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
mankind, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
14 For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea
are in the Christ Yahshua, for ye also suffered like things of your own
countrymen, even as they [have] of the Jews,
15 Who both killed the Lord Yahshua and their own prophets and have persecuted
us; and they please not God and are contrary to all people,
16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up
their sins always, for the wrath is come upon them to
the uttermost.
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.
18 Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again, but
Satan hindered us.
19 For what [is] our hope or joy or crown of rejoicing? [Is it] not even ye in
the presence of our Lord Yahshua at His coming?
20 For ye are our glory and joy.
1 Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left
at Athens alone
2 And sent Timotheus, our brother and minister of God and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of the Christ, to establish
you and to comfort you concerning your faith,
3 That no one should be moved by these afflictions; for yourselves know that we
are appointed thereunto.
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.
5 For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith,
lest by some means the tempter tempted you and our labour
be in vain.
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:
7 Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and
distress by your faith;
8 For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.
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;
10 Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face and might
perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
11 Now our God and Father Himself and our Lord Yahshua direct our way unto
you.
12 And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another and
toward all, even as we [do] toward you,
13 To the end He may stablish your hearts unblameable
in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Yahshua the
Christ with all His saints.
1 Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort [you] by the Lord
Yahshua that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God,
[so] ye would abound more and more.
2 For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Yahshua,
3 And this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification: that ye should
abstain from fornication;
4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification
and honour,
5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God;
6 That none 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:
7 For God called us not unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
8 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not mankind, but God,
Who hath also given unto us His holy Spirit.
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.
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,
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 may walk honestly toward them that are without, and [that] ye may
have lack of nothing.
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.
14 For if we believe that Yahshua died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Yahshua will God bring with Him.
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.
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 the Christ shall
rise first;
17 Then we which are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them
in clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write
unto you.
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief
in the night.
3 When they say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as
travail upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape.
4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a
thief.
5 Ye are all the sons of light and the sons 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 be drunken are drunken in the night.
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.
9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Yahshua the Christ,
10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together
with Him.
11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together and edify one another, even as also
ye do.
12 And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour
among you and take the lead of you in the Lord and admonish
you,
13 And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. Be at
peace among yourselves.
14 Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the
feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all.
15 See that none render evil for evil unto any, but ever follow that which is
good, both among yourselves and to all.
16 Rejoice evermore.
17 Pray without ceasing.
18 In every thing give thanks, for this is the will of God in the Christ Yahshua concerning you.
19 Quench not the Spirit.
20 Despise not prophesyings.
21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
22 Abstain from all appearance of evil.
23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly, and [may] your whole
spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Yahshua the Christ.
24 Faithful [is] He That calleth
you, Who also will do [it].
25 Brethren, pray for us.
26 Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss.
27 I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read
unto all the brethren.
28 The grace of our Lord Yahshua the Christ [be] with you.