For you are our glory and joy!

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?

For the appeal we make does not come from error or impurity or with deceit,

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

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.

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

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.

For how can we thank God enough for you, for all the joy we feel because of you before our God?

Now when they are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction comes on them, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will surely not escape.

Now may the God of peace himself make you completely holy and may your spirit and soul and body be kept entirely blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.