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2:1 For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not
 in vain:
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.
2:3 For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in
 guile:
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.
2:5 For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a
 cloak of covetousness; God is witness:
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.
2:7 But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:
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.
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.
2:10 Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and
 unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:
2:11 As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you,
 as a father doth his children,
2:12 That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom
 and glory.
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.
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:
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:
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.
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.
2:18 Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but
 Satan hindered us.
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?
2:20 For ye are our glory and joy.

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3:1 Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left
 at Athens alone;
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:
3:3 That no man should be moved by these afflictions:  for yourselves know
 that we are appointed thereunto.
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.
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.
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:
3:7 Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction
 and distress by your faith:
3:8 For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.
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;
3:10 Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and
 might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
3:11 Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our
 way unto you.
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:
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.

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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.
4:2 For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
4:3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should
 abstain from fornication:
4:4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in
 sanctification and honour;
4:5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not
 God:
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.
4:7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
4:8 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also
 given unto us his holy Spirit.
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.
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;
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;
4:12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye
 may have lack of nothing.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
4:18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

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5:1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write
 unto you.
5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a
 thief in the night.
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.
5:4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you
 as a thief.
5:5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day:  we are
 not of the night, nor of darkness.
5:6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be
 sober.
5:7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are
 drunken in the night.
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.
5:9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our
 Lord Jesus Christ,
5:10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live
 together with him.
5:11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as
 also ye do.
5:12 And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and
 are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
5:13 And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be
 at peace among yourselves.
5:14 Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the
 feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.
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.
5:16 Rejoice evermore.
5:17 Pray without ceasing.
5:18 In every thing give thanks:  for this is the will of God in Christ
 Jesus concerning you.
5:19 Quench not the Spirit.
5:20 Despise not prophesyings.
5:21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
5:22 Abstain from all appearance of evil.
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.
5:24 Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.
5:25 Brethren, pray for us.
5:26 Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss.
5:27 I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy
 brethren.
5:28 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.  Amen.