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1 Thessalonians Chapter 1
1 Thessalonians 1:1 (NIV)
1 Paul, Silas and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace and peace to you.
1 Thessalonians 1:2 (NASB)
2 We give thanks to God always for all of you, making mention of you in our prayers;
1 Thessalonians 1:3 (NASB)
3 constantly bearing in mind your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father,
1 Thessalonians 1:4 (CJB)
4 We know, brothers, that God has loved and chosen you;
1 Thessalonians 1:5 (NASB)
5 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 sake.
1 Thessalonians 1:6 (NKJV)
6 And you became followers of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,
1 Thessalonians 1:7 (NIV)
7 And so you became a model to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia.
1 Thessalonians 1:8 (NIV)
8 The Lord’s message rang out from you not only in Macedonia and Achaia–your faith in God has become known everywhere. Therefore we do not need to say anything about it,
1 Thessalonians 1:9 (NIV)
9 for they themselves report what kind of reception you gave us. They tell how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,
1 Thessalonians 1:10 (NASB)
10 and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, that is Jesus, who rescues us from the wrath to come.
1 Thessalonians Chapter 2
1 Thessalonians 2:1 (AMP)
1 For you yourselves know, brethren, that our coming among you was not useless and fruitless.
1 Thessalonians 2:2 (NASB)
2 but after we had already suffered and been mistreated in Philippi, as you know, we had the boldness in our God to speak to you the gospel of God amid much opposition.
1 Thessalonians 2:3 (NIV)
3 For the appeal we make does not spring from error or impure motives, nor are we trying to trick you.
1 Thessalonians 2:4 (NIV)
4 On the contrary, we speak as men approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel. We are not trying to please men but God, who tests our hearts.
1 Thessalonians 2:5 (NASB)
5 For we never came with flattering speech, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed—God is witness—
1 Thessalonians 2:6 (NASB)
6 nor did we seek glory from men, either from you or from others, even though as apostles of Christ we might have asserted our authority.
1 Thessalonians 2:7 (NASB)
7 But we proved to be gentle among you, as a nursing mother tenderly cares for her own children.
1 Thessalonians 2:8 (NASB)
8 Having so fond an affection for you, we were well-pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God but also our own lives, because you had become very dear to us.
1 Thessalonians 2:9 (NASB)
9 For you recall, brethren, our labor and hardship, how working night and day so as not to be a burden to any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
1 Thessalonians 2:10 (NIV)
10 You are witnesses, and so is God, of how holy, righteous and blameless we were among you who believed.
1 Thessalonians 2:11 (NASB)
11 just as you know how we were exhorting and encouraging and imploring each one of you as a father would his own children,
1 Thessalonians 2:12 (NASB)
12 so that you would walk in a manner worthy of the God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.
1 Thessalonians 2:13 (NIV)
13 And we also thank God continually because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is at work in you who believe.
1 Thessalonians 2:14 (AMP)
14 For you, brethren, became imitators of the assemblies (churches) of God in Christ Jesus which are in Judea, for you too have suffered the same kind of treatment from your own fellow countrymen as they did [who were persecuted at the hands] of the Jews,
1 Thessalonians 2:15 (AMP)
15 Who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and harassed and drove us out, and continue to make themselves hateful and offensive to God and to show themselves foes of all men,
1 Thessalonians 2:16 (NASB)
16 hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved; with the result that they always fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them to the utmost.
1 Thessalonians 2:17 (CJB)
17 And as for us, brothers, when we were deprived of your company for a short time — in person, but not in thought — we missed you and tried hard to come and see you.
1 Thessalonians 2:18 (NASB)
18 For we wanted to come to you—I, Paul, more than once—and yet Satan hindered us.
1 Thessalonians 2:19 (NIV)
19 For what is our hope, our joy, or the crown in which we will glory in the presence of our Lord Jesus when he comes? Is it not you?
1 Thessalonians 2:20 (AMP)
20 For you are [indeed] our glory and our joy!
1 Thessalonians Chapter 3
1 Thessalonians 3:1 (AMP)
1 Therefore, when [the suspense of separation and our yearning for some personal communication from you] became intolerable, we consented to being left behind alone at Athens.
1 Thessalonians 3:2 (NKJV)
2 and sent Timothy, our brother and minister of God, and our fellow laborer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you and encourage you concerning your faith,
1 Thessalonians 3:3 (NIV)
3 so that no one would be unsettled by these trials. You know quite well that we were destined for them.
1 Thessalonians 3:4 (NIV)
4 In fact, when we were with you, we kept telling you that we would be persecuted. And it turned out that way, as you well know.
1 Thessalonians 3:5 (NIV)
5 For this reason, when I could stand it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith. I was afraid that in some way the tempter might have tempted you and our efforts might have been useless.
1 Thessalonians 3:6 (NIV)
6 But Timothy has just now come to us from you and has brought good news about your faith and love. He has told us that you always have pleasant memories of us and that you long to see us, just as we also long to see you.
1 Thessalonians 3:7 (NIV)
7 Therefore, brothers, in all our distress and persecution we were encouraged about you because of your faith.
1 Thessalonians 3:8 (NIV)
8 For now we really live, since you are standing firm in the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 3:9 (NIV)
9 How can we thank God enough for you in return for all the joy we have in the presence of our God because of you?
1 Thessalonians 3:10 (NIV)
10 Night and day we pray most earnestly that we may see you again and supply what is lacking in your faith.
1 Thessalonians 3:11 (AMP)
11 Now may our God and Father Himself and our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) guide our steps to you.
1 Thessalonians 3:12 (NASB)
12 and may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another, and for all people, just as we also do for you;
1 Thessalonians 3:13 (NKJV)
13 so that He may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.
1 Thessalonians Chapter 4
1 Thessalonians 4:1 (NASB)
1 Finally then, brethren, we request and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us instruction as to how you ought to walk and please God (just as you actually do walk), that you excel still more.
1 Thessalonians 4:2 (AMP)
2 For you know what charges and precepts we gave you [on the authority and by the inspiration of] the Lord Jesus.
1 Thessalonians 4:3 (NASB)
3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality;
1 Thessalonians 4:4 (NASB)
4 that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,
1 Thessalonians 4:5 (NASB)
5 not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God;
1 Thessalonians 4:6 (NASB)
6 and that no man transgress and defraud his brother in the matter because the Lord is the avenger in all these things, just as we also told you before and solemnly warned you.
1 Thessalonians 4:7 (NASB)
7 For God has not called us for the purpose of impurity, but in sanctification.
1 Thessalonians 4:8 (NASB)
8 So, he who rejects this is not rejecting man but the God who gives His Holy Spirit to you.
1 Thessalonians 4:9 (NASB)
9 Now as to the love of the brethren, you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another;
1 Thessalonians 4:10 (NASB)
10 for indeed you do practice it toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, to excel still more,
1 Thessalonians 4:11 (NASB)
11 and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life and attend to your own business and work with your hands, just as we commanded you,
1 Thessalonians 4:12 (AMP)
12 So that you may bear yourselves becomingly and be correct and honorable and command the respect of the outside world, being dependent on nobody [self-supporting] and having need of nothing.
1 Thessalonians 4:13 (AMP)
13 Now also we would not have you ignorant, brethren, about those who fall asleep [in death], that you may not grieve [for them] as the rest do who have no hope [beyond the grave].
1 Thessalonians 4:14 (NIV)
14 We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him.
1 Thessalonians 4:15 (AMP)
15 For this we declare to you by the Lord’s [own] word, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord shall in no way precede [into His presence] or have any advantage at all over those who have previously fallen asleep [in Him in death].
1 Thessalonians 4:16 (NASB)
16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
1 Thessalonians 4:17 (NASB)
17 Then 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 shall always be with the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 4:18 (NASB)
18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.
1 Thessalonians Chapter 5
1 Thessalonians 5:1 (NKJV)
1 But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you.
1 Thessalonians 5:2 (NASB)
2 For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night.
1 Thessalonians 5:3 (NIV)
3 While people are saying, “Peace and safety,” destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
1 Thessalonians 5:4 (NIV)
4 But you, brothers, are not in darkness so that this day should surprise you like a thief.
1 Thessalonians 5:5 (NIV)
5 You are all sons of the light and sons of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness.
1 Thessalonians 5:6 (NIV)
6 So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be alert and self-controlled.
1 Thessalonians 5:7 (NASB)
7 For those who sleep do their sleeping at night, and those who get drunk get drunk at night.
1 Thessalonians 5:8 (NASB)
8 But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation.
1 Thessalonians 5:9 (NKJV)-M
9 For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Yeshua (Jesus) the Messiah,
1 Thessalonians 5:10 (NIV)
10 He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him.
1 Thessalonians 5:11 (NIV)
11 Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.
1 Thessalonians 5:12 (NASB)
12 But we request of you, brethren, that you appreciate those who diligently labor among you, and have charge over you in the Lord and give you instruction,
1 Thessalonians 5:13 (NASB)
13 and that you esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Live in peace with one another.
1 Thessalonians 5:14 (AMP)
14 And we earnestly beseech you, brethren, admonish (warn and seriously advise) those who are out of line [the loafers, the disorderly, and the unruly]; encourage the timid and fainthearted, help and give your support to the weak souls, [and] be very patient with everybody [always keeping your temper].
1 Thessalonians 5:15 (AMP)
15 See that none of you repays another with evil for evil, but always aim to show kindness and seek to do good to one another and to everybody.
1 Thessalonians 5:16 (NIV)
16 Be joyful always;
1 Thessalonians 5:17 (NASB)
17 pray without ceasing;
1 Thessalonians 5:18 (CJB)
18 In everything give thanks, for this is what God wants from you who are united with the Messiah Jesus.
1 Thessalonians 5:19 (NASB)
19 Do not quench the Spirit;
1 Thessalonians 5:20 (NIV2011)
20 Do not treat prophecies with contempt
1 Thessalonians 5:21 (NASB)
21 But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good;
1 Thessalonians 5:22 (KJV)
22 Abstain from all appearance of evil.
1 Thessalonians 5:23 (NASB)
23 Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Thessalonians 5:24 (NASB)
24 Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will bring it to pass.
1 Thessalonians 5:25 (NASB)
25 Brethren, pray for us.
1 Thessalonians 5:26 (NASB)
26 Greet all the brethren with a holy kiss.
1 Thessalonians 5:27 (NASB)
27 I adjure you by the Lord to have this letter read to all the brethren.
1 Thessalonians 5:28 (NASB)
28 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.