Jesus in 1 Thessalonians

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1. 1:1

   Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace and peace to you.

2. 1:3

   and continually recalling before our God and Father your work of faith, your labor of love, and your enduring hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

3. 1:6

   And you became imitators of us and of the Lord when you welcomed the message with the joy of the Holy Spirit, in spite of your great suffering.

4. 1:8

   For not only did the message of the Lord ring out from you to Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith in God has gone out to every place, so that we have no need to say anything more.

5. 1:10

   and to await His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead—Jesus our deliverer from the coming wrath.

6. 2:6

   Nor did we seek praise from you or from anyone else, although as apostles of Christ we had authority to demand it.

7. 2:14

   For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Judea that are in Christ Jesus. You suffered from your own countrymen the very things they suffered from the Jews,

8. 2:15

   who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,

9. 2:19

   After all, who is our hope, our joy, our crown of boasting, if it is not you yourselves in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His coming?

10. 3:2

    We sent Timothy, our brother and fellow worker for God in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you in your faith,

11. 3:8

    For now we can go on living, as long as you are standing firm in the Lord.

12. 3:11

    Now may our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you.

13. 3:12

    And may the Lord cause you to increase and overflow with love for one another and for everyone else, just as our love for you overflows,

14. 3:13

    so that He may establish your hearts in blamelessness and holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints. Amen.

15. 4:1

    Finally, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus to live in a way that is pleasing to God, just as you have received from us. This is how you already live, so you should do so all the more.

16. 4:2

    For you know the instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.

17. 4:6

    and no one should ever violate or exploit his brother in this regard, because the Lord will avenge all such acts, as we have already told you and solemnly warned you.

18. 4:14

    For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we also believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him.

19. 4:15

    By the word of the Lord, we declare to you that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who have fallen asleep.

20. 4:16

    For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise.

21. 4:17

    After that, we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.

22. 5:2

    For you are fully aware that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

23. 5:9

    For God has not appointed us to suffer wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

24. 5:12

    But we ask you, brothers, to acknowledge those who work diligently among you, who care for you in the Lord and who admonish you.

25. 5:18

    Give thanks in every circumstance, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

26. 5:23

    Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely, and may your entire spirit, soul, and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

27. 5:27

    I charge you before the Lord to have this letter read to all the brothers.

28. 5:28

    The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.