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Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace.
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And ye became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit;
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For from you hath sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith to God-ward is gone forth; so that we need not to speak anything.
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who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove out us, and please not God, and are contrary to all men;
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for now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.
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and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you;
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Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk,—that ye abound more and more.
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For ye know what charge we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
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that no man transgress, and wrong his brother in the matter: because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.
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For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we that are alive, that are left unto the coming of the Lord, shall in no wise precede them that are fallen asleep.
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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;
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then we that are alive, that are left, shall together with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
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For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
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But we beseech you, brethren, to know them that labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
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I adjure you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the brethren.