For you know quite well that the day of the Lord will come in the same way as a thief in the night.

For you yourselves know, brothers and sisters, about our coming to you – it has not proven to be purposeless.

so that no one would be shaken by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are destined for this.

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.

For people everywhere report how you welcomed us and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God

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,