We pray earnestly night and day to see you in person and make up what may be lacking in your faith.

Now may God our Father himself and our Lord Jesus direct our way to you.

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.

For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a shout of command, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

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 we ask you, brothers and sisters, to acknowledge those who labor among you and preside over you in the Lord and admonish you,

For you are our glory and joy!

that each of you know how to possess his own body in holiness and honor,

not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God.

In this way you will live a decent life before outsiders and not be in need.

Now on the topic of times and seasons, brothers and sisters, you have no need for anything to be written to you.

So then we must not sleep as the rest, but must stay alert and sober.

For those who sleep, sleep at night and those who get drunk are drunk at night.

and to esteem them most highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.

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 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.

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,

As a result you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia.

As you know, we treated each one of you as a father treats his own children,

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