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They are displeasing to God, + and are the enemies of all mankind; +002:016 for they still try to prevent our preaching to the Gentiles + so that they may find salvation. They thus continually fill + up the measure of their own sins, and God's anger in its + severest form has overtaken them. +002:017 But we, brethren, having been for a short time separated + from you in bodily presence, though not in heart, + endeavoured all the more earnestly, with intense longing, + to see you face to face. +002:018 On this account we wanted to come to you--at least I Paul + wanted again and again to do so--but Satan hindered us. +002:019 For what is our hope or joy, or the crown of which we boast? + Is it not you yourselves in the presence of our Lord Jesus + at His Coming? +002:020 Yes, you are our glory and our joy. +003:001 So when we could endure it no longer, we decided to remain + behind in Athens alone; +003:002 and sent Timothy our brother and God's minister in the service + of Christ's Good News, that he might help you spiritually + and encourage you in your faith; +003:003 that none of you might be unnerved by your present trials: + for you yourselves know that they are our appointed lot. +003:004 For even when we were with you, we forewarned you, saying, + "We are soon to suffer affliction;" and this actually happened, + as you well know. +003:005 For this reason I also, when I could no longer endure + the uncertainty, sent to know the condition of your faith, + lest perchance the Tempter might have tempted you and our + labour have been lost. +003:006 But now that Timothy has recently come back to us from you, + and has brought us the happy tidings of your faith and love, + and has told us how you still cherish a constant and affectionate + recollection of us, and are longing to see us as we also long + to see you-- +003:007 for this reason in our distress and trouble we have been + comforted about you, brethren, by your faith. +003:008 For now life is for us life indeed, since you are standing + fast in the Lord. +003:009 For what thanksgiving on your behalf can we possibly offer + to God in return for all the joy which fills our souls before + our God for you, +003:010 while night and day, with intense earnestness, we pray that we + may see your faces, and may bring to perfection whatever + may be still lacking in your faith? +003:011 But may our God and Father Himself--and our Lord Jesus-- + guide us on our way to you; +003:012 and as for you, may the Lord teach you to love one another + and all men, with a growing and a glowing love, resembling our + love for you. +003:013 Thus He will build up your characters, so that you will be + faultlessly holy in the presence of our God and Father at + the Coming of our Lord Jesus with all His holy ones. +004:001 Moreover, brethren, as you learnt from our lips the lives + which you ought to live, and do live, so as to please God, + we beg and exhort you in the name of the Lord Jesus to live + them more and more truly. +004:002 For you know the commands which we laid upon you by the authority + of the Lord Jesus. +004:003 For this is God's will--your purity of life, that you + abstain from fornication; +004:004 that each man among you shall know how to procure a wife + who shall be his own in purity and honour; +004:005 that you be not overmastered by lustful cravings, like the Gentiles + who have no knowledge of God; +004:006 and that in this matter there be no encroaching on the + rights of a brother Christian and no overreaching him. + For the Lord is an avenger in all such cases, as we have + already taught you and solemnly warned you. +004:007 God has not called us to an unclean life, but to one of purity. +004:008 Therefore a defiant spirit in such a case provokes not man + but God, who puts His Holy Spirit into your hearts. +004:009 But on the subject of love for the brotherhood it is unnecessary + for me to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught + by God to love one another; +004:010 and indeed you do love all the brethren throughout Macedonia. + And we exhort you to do so more and more, +004:011 and to vie with one another in eagerness for peace, + every one minding his own business and working with his hands, + as we ordered you to do: +004:012 so as to live worthy lives in relation to outsiders, and not + be a burden to any one. +004:013 Now, concerning those who from time to time pass away, + we would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, lest you + should mourn as others do who have no hope. +004:014 For if we believe that Jesus has died and risen again, + we also believe that, through Jesus, God will bring with Him + those who shall have passed away. +004:015 For this we declare to you on the Lord's own authority-- + that we who are alive and continue on earth until the Coming + of the Lord, shall certainly not forestall those who shall + have previously passed away. +004:016 For the Lord Himself will come down from Heaven with a loud word + of command, and with an archangel's voice and the trumpet of God, + and the dead in Christ will rise first. +004:017 Afterwards we who are alive and are still on earth will be caught + up in their company amid clouds to meet the Lord in the air. +004:018 And so we shall be with the Lord for ever. Therefore encourage + one another with these words. +005:001 But as to times and dates it is unnecessary that anything + be written to you. +005:002 For you yourselves know perfectly well that the day of the Lord + comes like a thief in the night. +005:003 While they are saying "Peace and safety!" then in a moment + destruction falls upon them, like birth-pains on a woman + who is with child; and escape there is none. +005:004 But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that daylight should + surprise you like a thief; +005:005 for all of you are sons of Light and sons of the day. + We belong neither to the night nor to darkness. +005:006 So then let us not sleep, like the rest of the world, but let + us keep awake and be sober. +005:007 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who drink freely, + drink at night. +005:008 But let us, belonging--as we do--to the day, be sober, + putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet + the hope of salvation. +005:009 For God has not pre-destined us to meet His anger, but to obtain + salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ; +005:010 who died on our behalf, so that whether we are awake or are + sleeping we may share His Life. +005:011 Therefore encourage one another, and let each one help + to strengthen his friend, as in fact you do. +005:012 Now we beg you, brethren, to show respect for those who + labour among you and are your leaders in Christian work, + and are your advisers; +005:013 and to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. + Be at peace among yourselves. +005:014 And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the unruly, comfort the timid, + sustain the weak, and be patient towards all. +005:015 See to it that no one ever repays another with evil for evil; + but always seek opportunities of doing good both to one + another and to all the world. +005:016 Be always joyful. +005:017 Be unceasing in prayer. +005:018 In every circumstance of life be thankful; for this is God's + will in Christ Jesus respecting you. +005:019 Do not quench the Spirit. +005:020 Do not think meanly of utterances of prophecy; +005:021 but test all such, and retain hold of the good. +005:022 Hold yourselves aloof from every form of evil. +005:023 And may God Himself who gives peace, make you entirely holy; + and may your spirits, souls and bodies be preserved complete + and be found blameless at the Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. +005:024 Faithful is He who calls you, and He will also perfect His work. +005:025 Brethren, pray for us. +005:026 Greet all the brethren with a holy kiss. +005:027 I solemnly charge you in the Lord's name to have this Letter + read to all the brethren. +005:028 May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, 1 Thessalonians *** + +This file should be named wnt1310.txt or wnt1310.zip +Corrected EDITIONS of our eBooks get a new NUMBER, wnt1311.txt +VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER, wnt1310a.txt + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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