For now we are alive again, if you stand firm in the Lord.

For you are our glory and joy!

For you became imitators, brothers and sisters, of God’s churches in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, because you too suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they in fact did from the Jews,

You are witnesses, and so is God, as to how holy and righteous and blameless our conduct was toward you who believe.

But you, brothers and sisters, are not in the darkness for the day to overtake you like a thief would.

For you all are sons of the light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of the darkness.

And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, when you received the message with joy that comes from the Holy Spirit, despite great affliction.

For who is our hope or joy or crown to boast of before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not of course you?

Now on the topic of brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.