Brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> pray for us too.

Greet all the brothers and sisters<n id="1" /> with a holy kiss.

And indeed you are practicing it toward all the brothers and sisters<n id="1" /> in all of Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more,<n id="2" />

We know,<n id="1" /> brothers and sisters<n id="2" /> loved by God, that he has chosen you,<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now on the topic of times and seasons,<n id="1" /> brothers and sisters,<n id="2" /> you have no need for anything to be written to you.

I call on you solemnly in the Lord<n id="1" /> to have this letter read to all the brothers and sisters.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">For you yourselves know, brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> about our coming to you &#8211; it has not proven to be purposeless.<n id="2" />

So<n id="1" /> in all our distress and affliction, we were reassured about you, brothers and sisters,<n id="2" /> through your faith.

But you, brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> are not in the darkness for the day to overtake you like a thief would.

<t /><p class="bodytext">But when we were separated from you, brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> for a short time (in presence, not in affection)<n id="2" /> we became all the more fervent in our great desire<n id="3" /> to see you in person.<n id="4" />

In this matter no one should violate the rights of his brother or take advantage of him,<n id="1" /> because the Lord is the avenger in all these cases,<n id="2" /> as we also told you earlier and warned you solemnly.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now we do not want you to be uninformed,<n id="1" /> brothers and sisters,<n id="2" /> about those who are asleep,<n id="3" /> so that you will not grieve like the rest who have no hope.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now we ask you, brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> to acknowledge those who labor among you and preside over you in the Lord and admonish you,

And we urge you, brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> admonish the undisciplined, comfort the discouraged, help the weak, be patient toward all.

For you recall, brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> 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,<n id="1" /> of God&#8217;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,

We<n id="1" /> sent Timothy, our brother and fellow worker for God<n id="2" /> in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen you and encourage you about your faith,

<t /><p class="bodytext">Finally then, brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received instruction from us about how<n id="2" /> you must live and please God (as you are in fact living)<n id="3" /> that you do so more and more.