\NormalFont\ShortTitle{1 Thessalonians}

{\MT THE FIRST EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE THESSALONIANS



\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Paul,
and
Silvanus,
and
Timotheus, unto the
church of the
Thessalonians
{\ADD{which is}}
in
God the
Father
and
{\ADD{in}} the
Lord
Jesus
Christ:
Grace
{\ADD{be}} unto
you,
and
peace,
from
God
our
Father,
and the
Lord
Jesus
Christ.

\VS{2}We give
thanks to
God
always
for
you
all,
making
mention of
you
in
our
prayers;

\VS{3}Remembering without
ceasing
your
work of
faith,
and
labour of
love,
and
patience of
hope in
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ, in the
sight of
God
and
our
Father;

\VS{4}Knowing,
brethren
beloved,
your
election
of
God.

\VS{5}For
our
gospel
came
not
unto
you
in
word
only,
but
also
in
power,
and
in the
Holy
Ghost,
and
in
much
assurance;
as ye
know what manner of
men we
were
among
you
for your
sake.

\VS{6}And
ye
became
followers of
us,
and of the
Lord, having
received the
word
in
much
affliction,
with
joy of the
Holy
Ghost:

\VS{7}So
that
ye
were
ensamples to
all
that
believe
in
Macedonia
and
Achaia.

\VS{8}For
from
you sounded
out the
word of the
Lord
not
only
in
Macedonia
and
Achaia,
but
also
in
every
place
your
faith
to
God-ward is spread
abroad; so
that
we
need
not to
speak any
thing.

\VS{9}For
they
themselves
shew
of
us what manner
of entering
in we
had
unto
you,
and
how ye
turned
to
God
from
idols to
serve the
living
and
true
God;

\VS{10}And to wait
for
his
Son
from
heaven,
whom he
raised
from the
dead,
{\ADD{even}}
Jesus,
which
delivered
us
from the
wrath to
come.




\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}For
yourselves,
brethren,
know
our entrance
in
unto
you,
that it
was
not in
vain:

\VS{2}But
even after that we had suffered
before,
and were shamefully
entreated,
as ye
know,
at
Philippi, we were
bold
in
our
God to
speak
unto
you the
gospel of
God
with
much
contention.

\VS{3}For
our
exhortation
{\ADD{was}}
not
of
deceit,
nor
of
uncleanness,
nor
in
guile:

\VS{4}But
as we were
allowed
of
God to be put in trust
with the
gospel, even
so we
speak;
not
as
pleasing
men,
but
God,
which
trieth
our
hearts.

\VS{5}For
neither at any
time used
we
flattering
words,
as ye
know,
nor a
cloke of
covetousness;
God
{\ADD{is}}
witness:

\VS{6}Nor
of
men sought
we
glory,
neither
of
you,
nor
{\ADD{yet}}
of
others, when we
might have
been
burdensome,
as the
apostles of
Christ.

\VS{7}But we
were
gentle
among
you,
even
as a
nurse
cherisheth
her
children:

\VS{8}So being affectionately
desirous of
you, we were
willing to have
imparted unto
you,
not the
gospel of
God
only,
but
also our
own
souls,
because ye
were
dear unto
us.

\VS{9}For ye
remember,
brethren,
our
labour
and
travail:
for
labouring
night
and
day,
because we
would
not be chargeable
unto
any of
you, we
preached
unto
you the
gospel of
God.

\VS{10}Ye
{\ADD{are}}
witnesses,
and
God
{\ADD{also}},
how
holily
and
justly
and
unblameably we behaved
ourselves among
you
that
believe:

\VS{11}As ye
know
how we
exhorted
and
comforted
and
charged
every
one of
you,
as a
father
{\ADD{doth}}
his
children,

\VS{12}That
ye would
walk
worthy of
God,
who hath
called
you
unto
his
kingdom
and
glory.


\par }{\PP \VS{13}For
this
cause
also
thank
we
God without
ceasing,
because, when ye
received the
word of
God which ye
heard
of
us, ye
received
{\ADD{it}}
not
{\ADD{as}} the
word of
men,
but
as it
is in
truth, the
word of
God,
which effectually
worketh
also
in
you
that
believe.

\VS{14}For
ye,
brethren,
became
followers of the
churches of
God
which
in
Judaea
are
in
Christ
Jesus:
for
ye
also have
suffered like
things
of your
own
countrymen,
even
as
they
{\ADD{have}}
of the
Jews:

\VS{15}Who
both
killed the
Lord
Jesus,
and their
own
prophets,
and have
persecuted
us;
and they
please
not
God,
and are
contrary to
all
men:

\VS{16}Forbidding
us to
speak to the
Gentiles
that they might be
saved,
to fill
up
their
sins
alway:
for the
wrath is
come
upon
them
to the
uttermost.


\par }{\PP \VS{17}But
we,
brethren, being
taken
from
you
for a
short
time in
presence,
not in
heart,
endeavoured the more
abundantly to
see
your
face
with
great
desire.

\VS{18}Wherefore we would
have
come
unto
you,
even
I
Paul,
once
and
again;
but
Satan
hindered
us.

\VS{19}For
what
{\ADD{is}}
our
hope,
or
joy,
or
crown of
rejoicing?
{\ADD{Are}}
not
even
ye in the presence
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ
at
his
coming?

\VS{20}For
ye
are
our
glory
and
joy.




\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Wherefore when we
could no
longer
forbear, we thought it
good to be
left
at
Athens
alone;

\VS{2}And
sent
Timotheus,
our
brother,
and
minister of
God,
and
our
fellowlabourer
in the
gospel of
Christ,
to
establish
you,
and to
comfort
you
concerning
your
faith:

\VS{3}That no
man should be
moved
by
these
afflictions:
for
yourselves
know
that we are
appointed
thereunto.

\VS{4}For
verily,
when we
were
with
you, we
told
you
before
that we
should suffer
tribulation;
even
as it came to
pass,
and ye
know.

\VS{5}For
this
cause, when
I
could no
longer
forbear, I
sent
to
know
your
faith, lest by some
means the
tempter have
tempted
you,
and
our
labour
be
in
vain.

\VS{6}But
now
when
Timotheus
came
from
you
unto
us,
and
brought
us good
tidings of
your
faith
and
charity,
and
that ye
have
good
remembrance of
us
always, desiring
greatly to
see
us,
as
we
also
{\ADD{to see}}
you:

\VS{7}Therefore,
brethren, we were
comforted
over
you
in
all
our
affliction
and
distress
by
your
faith:

\VS{8}For
now we
live,
if
ye stand
fast
in the
Lord.

\VS{9}For
what
thanks can
we
render to
God
again
for
you,
for
all the
joy
wherewith we
joy
for
your
sakes
before
our
God;

\VS{10}Night
and
day
praying
exceedingly
that we might
see
your
face,
and might
perfect that which is
lacking in
your
faith?

\VS{11}Now
God
himself
and
our
Father,
and
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ,
direct
our
way
unto
you.

\VS{12}And the
Lord
make
you to
increase
and
abound in
love
one
toward
another,
and
toward
all
{\ADD{men}},
even
as
we
{\ADD{do}}
toward
you:

\VS{13}To the
end he may
stablish
your
hearts
unblameable
in
holiness
before
God,
even
our
Father,
at the
coming of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ
with
all
his
saints.




\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Furthermore
then we
beseech
you,
brethren,
and
exhort
{\ADD{you}}
by the
Lord
Jesus, that
as ye have
received
of
us
how
ye
ought to
walk
and to
please
God,
{\ADD{
so}} ye would
abound more and
more.

\VS{2}For ye
know
what
commandments we
gave
you
by the
Lord
Jesus.

\VS{3}For
this
is the
will of
God,
{\ADD{even}}
your
sanctification,
that
ye should
abstain
from
fornication:

\VS{4}That every
one of
you should know
how to
possess
his
vessel
in
sanctification
and
honour;

\VS{5}Not
in the
lust of
concupiscence,
even
as the
Gentiles
which
know
not
God:

\VS{6}That
no
{\ADD{man}} go
beyond
and
defraud
his
brother
in
{\ADD{any}}
matter: because
that the
Lord
{\ADD{is}} the
avenger
of
all
such,
as
we
also have
forewarned
you
and
testified.

\VS{7}For
God
hath
not
called
us
unto
uncleanness,
but
unto
holiness.

\VS{8}He
therefore that
despiseth,
despiseth
not
man,
but
God,
who
hath
also
given
unto
us
his
holy
Spirit.

\VS{9}But as
touching brotherly
love ye
need
not that I
write unto
you:
for
ye
yourselves
are taught of
God
to
love one
another.

\VS{10}And
indeed ye
do
it
toward
all the
brethren
which are
in
all
Macedonia:
but we
beseech
you,
brethren, that ye
increase more and
more;

\VS{11}And that ye
study to be
quiet,
and to
do your own
business,
and to
work
with
your
own
hands,
as we
commanded
you;

\VS{12}That ye may
walk
honestly
toward them that
are
without,
and
{\ADD{that}} ye may
have
lack of
nothing.


\par }{\PP \VS{13}But I
would
not
have
you to be
ignorant,
brethren,
concerning them which are
asleep,
that ye
sorrow
not,
even
as
others which
have
no
hope.

\VS{14}For
if we
believe
that
Jesus
died
and rose
again, even
so
them
also which
sleep
in
Jesus
will
God
bring
with
him.

\VS{15}For
this we
say unto
you
by the
word of the
Lord,
that
we which are
alive
{\ADD{and}}
remain
unto the
coming of the
Lord
shall
not
prevent them which are
asleep.

\VS{16}For the
Lord
himself shall
descend
from
heaven
with a
shout,
with the
voice of the
archangel,
and
with the
trump of
God:
and the
dead
in
Christ shall
rise
first:

\VS{17}Then
we which are
alive
{\ADD{and}}
remain shall be caught
up
together
with
them
in the
clouds,
to
meet the
Lord
in the
air:
and
so shall
we
ever
be
with the
Lord.

\VS{18}Wherefore
comfort one
another
with
these
words.




\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}But
of the
times
and the
seasons,
brethren, ye
have
no
need that I write
unto
you.

\VS{2}For
yourselves
know
perfectly
that the
day of the
Lord
so
cometh
as a
thief
in the
night.

\VS{3}For
when they shall
say,
Peace
and
safety;
then
sudden
destruction
cometh upon
them,
as
travail
upon a
woman
with
child;
and they
shall
not
escape.

\VS{4}But
ye,
brethren,
are
not
in
darkness,
that that
day should
overtake
you
as a
thief.

\VS{5}Ye
are
all the
children of
light,
and the
children of the
day: we
are
not of the
night,
nor of
darkness.

\VS{6}Therefore let
us
not
sleep,
as
{\ADD{do}}
others;
but let us
watch
and be
sober.

\VS{7}For
they that
sleep
sleep in the
night;
and
they that be
drunken are
drunken in the
night.

\VS{8}But
let
us, who
are of the
day, be
sober, putting
on the
breastplate of
faith
and
love;
and for an
helmet, the
hope of
salvation.

\VS{9}For
God
hath
not
appointed
us
to
wrath,
but
to
obtain
salvation
by
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ,

\VS{10}Who
died
for
us,
that,
whether we
wake
or
sleep, we should
live
together
with
him.

\VS{11}Wherefore
comfort yourselves
together,
and
edify
one
another, even
as
also ye
do.


\par }{\PP \VS{12}And we
beseech
you,
brethren, to
know them which
labour
among
you,
and are
over
you
in the
Lord,
and
admonish
you;

\VS{13}And to
esteem
them
very
highly
in
love
for
their
work’s
sake.
{\ADD{And}} be at
peace
among
yourselves.

\VS{14}Now we
exhort
you,
brethren,
warn them that
are
unruly,
comfort the
feebleminded,
support the
weak, be
patient
toward
all
{\ADD{men}}.

\VS{15}See that
none
render
evil
for
evil unto
any
{\ADD{man}};
but
ever
follow that which is
good,
both
among
yourselves,
and
to
all
{\ADD{men}}.

\VS{16}Rejoice
evermore.

\VS{17}Pray without
ceasing.

\VS{18}In every
thing give
thanks:
for
this is the
will of
God
in
Christ
Jesus
concerning
you.

\VS{19}Quench
not the
Spirit.

\VS{20}Despise
not
prophesyings.

\VS{21}Prove all
things; hold
fast that which is
good.

\VS{22}Abstain
from
all
appearance of
evil.

\VS{23}And the
very
God of
peace
sanctify
you
wholly;
and
{\ADD{I pray God}}
your
whole
spirit
and
soul
and
body be
preserved
blameless
unto the
coming of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ.

\VS{24}Faithful
{\ADD{is}} he that
calleth
you,
who
also will
do
{\ADD{it.}}

\VS{25}Brethren,
pray
for
us.


\par }{\PP \VS{26}Greet
all the
brethren
with an
holy
kiss.

\VS{27}I
charge
you by the
Lord
that
this
epistle be
read unto
all the
holy
brethren.

\VS{28}The
grace of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ
{\ADD{be}}
with
you.
Amen.


\par }{\SH The first
{\ADD{epistle}} unto the Thessalonians was written from Athens.
\par }
