for our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction; just as you know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sakes.

You also became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word during great affliction with the joy of the Holy Spirit,

But we, brothers and sisters, having been orphaned from you by absence for a short while—in person, not in spirit—were all the more eager with great desire to see your face.

Therefore, the one who rejects this is not rejecting man, but the God who gives His Holy Spirit to you.

Do not quench the Spirit,

Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be kept complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.