First Book of THESSALONIANS

 I THESSALONIANS 1:1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the

church of the Thessalonians {which is} in God the Father and {in}

the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace {be} unto you, and peace, from God

our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

I THESSALONIANS 1:2 We give thanks to God always for you all,

making mention of you in our prayers;

I THESSALONIANS 1:3 Remembering without ceasing 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;

I THESSALONIANS 1:4 Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of

God.

I THESSALONIANS 1:5 For our gospel came not unto you in word

only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much

assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for

your sake.

I THESSALONIANS 1:6 And ye became followers of us, and of the

Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of

the Holy Ghost:

I THESSALONIANS 1:7 So that ye were ensamples to all that believe

in Macedonia and Achaia.

I THESSALONIANS 1:8 For from you sounded out the word of the Lord

not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your

faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak

any thing.

I THESSALONIANS 1:9 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;

I THESSALONIANS 1:10 And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he

raised from the dead, {even} Jesus, which delivered us from the

wrath to come.

I THESSALONIANS 2:1 For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance

in unto you, that it was not in vain:

I THESSALONIANS 2:2 But even after that we had suffered before,

and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were

bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much

contention.

I THESSALONIANS 2:3 For our exhortation {was} not of deceit, nor

of uncleanness, nor in guile:

I THESSALONIANS 2:4 But as we were allowed of God to be put in

trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but

God, which trieth our hearts.

I THESSALONIANS 2:5 For neither at any time used we flattering

words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God {is} witness:

I THESSALONIANS 2:6 Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you,

nor {yet} of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the

apostles of Christ.

I THESSALONIANS 2:7 But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse

cherisheth her children:

I THESSALONIANS 2:8 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.

I THESSALONIANS 2:9 For ye remember, brethren, our labour 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.

I THESSALONIANS 2:10 Ye {are} witnesses, and God {also}, how

holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you

that believe:

I THESSALONIANS 2:11 As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and

charged every one of you, as a father {doth} his children,

I THESSALONIANS 2:12 That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath

called you unto his kingdom and glory.

I THESSALONIANS 2:13 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 men, but as it is in

truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you

that believe.

I THESSALONIANS 2:14 For ye, brethren, became followers of the

churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also

have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they

{have} of the Jews:

I THESSALONIANS 2:15 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:

I THESSALONIANS 2:16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that

they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath

is come upon them to the uttermost.

I THESSALONIANS 2:17 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.

I THESSALONIANS 2:18 Wherefore we would have come unto you, even

I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.

I THESSALONIANS 2:19 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?

I THESSALONIANS 2:20 For ye are our glory and joy.

I THESSALONIANS 3:1 Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we

thought it good to be left at Athens alone;

I THESSALONIANS 3:2 And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister

of God, and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to

establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith:

I THESSALONIANS 3:3 That no man should be moved by these

afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.

I THESSALONIANS 3:4 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.

I THESSALONIANS 3:5 For this cause, when I could no longer

forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the

tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.

I THESSALONIANS 3:6 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:

I THESSALONIANS 3:7 Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over

you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:

I THESSALONIANS 3:8 For now we live, if ye stand fast in the

Lord.

I THESSALONIANS 3:9 For what thanks can we render to God again

for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before

our God;

I THESSALONIANS 3:10 Night and day praying exceedingly that we

might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in

your faith?

I THESSALONIANS 3:11 Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord

Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.

I THESSALONIANS 3:12 And the Lord make you to increase and abound

in love one toward another, and toward all {men}, even as we {do}

toward you:

I THESSALONIANS 3:13 To the end he may stablish your hearts

unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the

coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.

I THESSALONIANS 4:1 Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren,

and exhort {you} by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of

us how ye ought to walk and to please God, {so} ye would abound

more and more.

I THESSALONIANS 4:2 For ye know what commandments we gave you by

the Lord Jesus.

I THESSALONIANS 4:3 For this is the will of God, {even} your

sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

I THESSALONIANS 4:4 That every one of you should know how to

possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

I THESSALONIANS 4:5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the

Gentiles which know not God:

I THESSALONIANS 4:6 That no {man} 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.

I THESSALONIANS 4:7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness,

but unto holiness.

I THESSALONIANS 4:8 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not

man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.

I THESSALONIANS 4:9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not

that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to

love one another.

I THESSALONIANS 4:10 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;

I THESSALONIANS 4:11 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do

your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we

commanded you;

I THESSALONIANS 4:12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that

are without, and {that} ye may have lack of nothing.

I THESSALONIANS 4:13 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.

I THESSALONIANS 4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose

again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with

him.

I THESSALONIANS 4:15 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.

I THESSALONIANS 4:16 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 Christ shall rise first:

I THESSALONIANS 4:17 Then we which 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 ever be with the Lord.

I THESSALONIANS 4:18 Wherefore comfort one another with these

words.

I THESSALONIANS 5:1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren,

ye have no need that I write unto you.

I THESSALONIANS 5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of

the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

I THESSALONIANS 5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety;

then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman

with child; and they shall not escape.

I THESSALONIANS 5:4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that

that day should overtake you as a thief.

I THESSALONIANS 5:5 Ye are all the children of light, and the

children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

I THESSALONIANS 5:6 Therefore let us not sleep, as {do} others;

but let us watch and be sober.

I THESSALONIANS 5:7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and

they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

I THESSALONIANS 5:8 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.

I THESSALONIANS 5:9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but

to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

I THESSALONIANS 5:10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or

sleep, we should live together with him.

I THESSALONIANS 5:11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and

edify one another, even as also ye do.

I THESSALONIANS 5:12 And we beseech you, brethren, to know them

which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and

admonish you;

I THESSALONIANS 5:13 And to esteem them very highly in love for

their work's sake. {And} be at peace among yourselves.

I THESSALONIANS 5:14 Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that

are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be

patient toward all {men}.

I THESSALONIANS 5:15 See that none render evil for evil unto any

{man}; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves,

and to all {men}.

I THESSALONIANS 5:16 Rejoice evermore.

I THESSALONIANS 5:17 Pray without ceasing.

I THESSALONIANS 5:18 In everything give thanks: for this is the

will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

I THESSALONIANS 5:19 Quench not the Spirit.

I THESSALONIANS 5:20 Despise not prophesyings.

I THESSALONIANS 5:21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is

good.

I THESSALONIANS 5:22 Abstain from all appearance of evil.

I THESSALONIANS 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you

wholly; and {I pray God} your whole spirit and soul and body be

preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

I THESSALONIANS 5:24 Faithful {is} he that calleth you, who also

will do {it}.

I THESSALONIANS 5:25 Brethren, pray for us.

I THESSALONIANS 5:26 Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss.

I THESSALONIANS 5:27 I charge you by the Lord that this epistle

be read unto all the holy brethren.

I THESSALONIANS 5:28 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ {be} with

you. Amen.