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

For you know quite well that the day of the Lord<n id="1" /> will come in the same way as a thief in the night.<n id="2" />

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.<n id="1" />p>

For we tell you this by the word of the Lord,<n id="1" /> that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will surely not go ahead of those who have fallen asleep.

For God did not destine us for wrath<n id="1" /> but for gaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

<p class="bodytext">And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, when you received<n id="1" /> the message with joy that comes from the Holy Spirit, despite great affliction.

For who is our hope or joy or crown to boast of<n id="1" /> before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not of course you?

Then we who are alive, who are left,<n id="1" /> will be suddenly caught up<n id="2" /> together<n id="3" /> with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.

because we recall<n id="1" /> in the presence of our God and Father<n id="2" /> your work of faith and labor of love and endurance of hope<n id="3" /> in our Lord Jesus Christ.

For from you the message of the Lord<n id="1" /> has echoed forth not just in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place reports of your faith in God have spread,<n id="2" /> so that we do not need to say anything.

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.<n id="1" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">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.