1 Thessalonians 4:7
4:7 For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness.
1 Thessalonians 3:6
3:6 But now Timothy has come to us from you and given us the good news of your faith and love and that you always think of us with affection and long to see us just as we also long to see you!
1 Thessalonians 2:18
2:18 For we wanted to come to you (I, Paul, in fact tried again and again)
but Satan thwarted us.
1 Thessalonians 5:9
5:9 For God did not destine us for wrath
but for gaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Thessalonians 1:10
1:10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus our deliverer from the coming wrath.
1 Thessalonians 2:15-16
2:15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets
and persecuted us severely.
They are displeasing to God and are opposed to all people,
2:16 because they hinder us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. Thus they constantly fill up their measure of sins,
but wrath
has come upon them completely.
1 Thessalonians 1:8
1:8 For from you the message of the Lord
has echoed forth not just in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place reports of your faith in God have spread,
so that we do not need to say anything.