because we recall in the presence of our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and endurance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

exhorting and encouraging you and insisting that you live in a way worthy of God who calls you to his own kingdom and his glory.

We know, brothers and sisters loved by God, that he has chosen you,

For you know what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

We sent Timothy, our brother and fellow worker for God in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen you and encourage you about your faith,

so that your hearts are strengthened in holiness to be blameless before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

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

For God did not destine us for wrath but for gaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

He died for us so that whether we are alert or asleep we will come to life together with him.

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.

But although we suffered earlier and were mistreated in Philippi, as you know, we had the courage in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in spite of much opposition.

but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we declare it, not to please people but God, who examines our hearts.

with such affection for you we were happy to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own lives, because you had become dear to us.

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

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also we believe that God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep as Christians.

Then we who are alive, who are left, will be suddenly caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.

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.

For you recall, brothers and sisters, our toil and drudgery: By working night and day so as not to impose a burden on any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.