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.

From Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace and peace to you!

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 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,

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

although we could have imposed our weight as apostles of Christ; instead we became little children among you. Like a nursing mother caring for her own children,

But now Timothy has come to us from you and given us the good news of your faith and love and that you always think of us with affection and long to see us just as we also long to see you!

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.

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

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.

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.

And indeed you are practicing it toward all the brothers and sisters in all of Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more,

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

Do not treat prophecies with contempt.

nor to seek glory from people, either from you or from others,

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.

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

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

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

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