Therefore encourage one another with these words.

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

in everything give thanks. For this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

So in all our distress and affliction, we were reassured about you, brothers and sisters, through your faith.

For this is God’s will: that you become holy, that you keep away from sexual immorality,

In this matter no one should violate the rights of his brother or take advantage of him, because the Lord is the avenger in all these cases, as we also told you earlier and warned you solemnly.

So when I could bear it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter somehow tempted you and our toil had proven useless.

For we tell you this by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will surely not go ahead of those who have fallen asleep.

And so we too constantly thank God that when you received God’s message that you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human message, but as it truly is, God’s message, which is at work among you who believe.