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10 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as thief; 11 for ye are all children of light, and children of day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

12 Therefore, let us not sleep, as others do; but let us be wakeful and watch;

13 for, they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that are drunken, are drunken in the night;

14 but let us, who are of the day, be watchful, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.

15 For, God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus;

16 who died for us, that, whether we wake, or sleep, we may live together with him.

17 Wherefore, exhort one another, and edify each the other, as also ye do.

CHAPTER V.

AND we beseech you, bre

thren, to consider those who labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and who admonish you;

2 and esteem ye them very highly in love, on account of their work: be at peace among yourselves.

3 And we exhort you, brethren, warn the unruly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the weak, be patient toward all men:

4 see, that none render evil Rom. xii for evil to any one; but pursue always that which is good, both towards each other, and towards all men:

5 rejoice evermore: 6 pray without ceasing: 7 in every thing give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you: 8 quench not the Spirit: 9 despise not prophesyings: 10 prove all things; hold fast that which is good: 11 abstain from all appearance of evil :

12 and may the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your whole spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved blameless, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

13 He is faithful who calleth you, who also will perform it.

Col. iv. 1.

14 Brethren, pray ye also for us:

15 salute all the brethren with an holy kiss.

16 I adjure you, by the Lord,

that this epistle be read to all Col. iv. 14. the brethren.

17 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you!

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PAUL

CHAPTER I.

AUL and Silvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ;

2 Grace and peace be to you, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ!

3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as is due, because your faith increaseth exceedingly; and the love of every one of you all, aboundeth toward each other: 4 so that we ourselves glory in you, in the churches of God, for your patience and faith in all your persecutions, and in the tribulations which ye endure:

5 which is a demonstration of the just judgment of God, that ye may be accounted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which also ye suffer.

6 Since it is just, with God, to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;

7 but, to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,

8 taking vengeance, in flaming fire, on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus:

9 who will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, from the presence of the Lord c. ii. & and from the glory of his might, when he shall come to be glorified in his saints;

10 and to be beheld with wonder, in that day, by all you that have believed, for our testimony to you hath been believed by you.

11 Wherefore, also, we pray always for you, that our God would account you worthy of his calling; and fulfil in you, with power, all the gracious purpose of his goodness, even the work of faith:

12 that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to

2 Cor. xi. 4.

1 John, ii. 18; iv. 4.

3 Let no one deceive you in any manner: for, that day will not come unless the falling away first come; and the man of iniquity be revealed, the son of perdition,

4 who opposeth, and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so as to seat himself in the sanctuary of God, declaring himself to be a God.

5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?

6 and ye know what now withholdeth him; that he may be revealed in his own time.

7 For, the mystery of iniquity is already working; only he who now withholdeth him, will withhold, until he be taken away;

8 and then will the Wicked One be revealed, whom the Lord will destroy with the

breath of his mouth, and extinguish with the brightness c. i. 9. of his presence:

9 even him, whose coming is by the working of Satan, with all power and signs and lying wonders;

10 and with all deceivableness of iniquity in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

11 And, for this cause, God will send to them the working of delusion, that they may believe in falsehood:

12 that all may be condemned who have not believed in the truth, but have consented to iniquity.

13 But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God hath chosen you for a first-fruit to salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

14 to which he called you by our gospel, for the obtaining the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

15 Therefore, brethren, stand firm, and hold fast the traditions which ye have been taught by us, whether by our word, or by our epistle:

16 and may our Lord Christ Jesus himself, and God the Father, who hath loved us, and given us eternal consolation and a good hope through his grace,