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- Bvt of the times and seasons, brethren, yee haue no neede that I write vnto you.
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- For ye your selues knowe perfectly, that the day of the Lorde shall come, euen as a thiefe in the night.
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- For when they shall say, Peace, and safetie, then shall come vpon them sudden destruction, as the trauaile vpon a woman with childe, and they shall not escape,
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- But ye, brethren, are not in darkenes, that that day shal come on you, as it were a thiefe.
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- Yee are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, neither of darkenesse.
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- Therefore let vs not sleepe as do other, but let vs watch and be sober.
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- For they that sleepe, sleepe in the night, and they that be drunken, are drunken in the night.
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- But let vs which are of the day, be sober, putting on the brest plate of faith and loue, and of the hope of saluation for an helmet.
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- For God hath not appointed vs vnto wrath, but to obtaine saluation by the meanes of our Lord Iesus Christ,
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- Which died for vs, that whether we wake or sleepe, we should liue together with him.
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- Wherefore exhort one another, and edifie one another, euen as ye doe.
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- Nowe we beseeche you, brethren, that ye acknowledge them, which labour among you, and are ouer you in the Lorde, & admonish you,
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- That yee haue them in singular loue for their workes sake.
Bee at peace among your selues.
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- We desire you, brethren, admonish them that are out of order: comfort ye feeble minded: beare with the weake: be pacient toward all men.
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- See that none recompense euil for euil vnto any man: but euer folow that which is good, both toward your selues, and toward all men.
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- Reioyce euermore.
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- Pray continually.
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- In all thinges giue thankes: for this is the will of God in Christ Iesus toward you.
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- Quench not the Spirit.
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- Despise not prophecying.
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- Try all things, & keepe that which is good.
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- Absteine from all appearance of euill.
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- Nowe the very God of peace sanctifie you throughout: and I pray God that your whole spirite and soule and body, may be kept blamelesse vnto the comming of our Lord Iesus Christ.
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- Faithfull is hee which calleth you, which will also doe it.
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- Brethren, pray for vs.
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- Greete all the brethren with an holy kisse.
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- I charge you in the Lorde, that this Epistle be read vnto all the brethren the Saintes.
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- The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be with you, Amen.
The first Epistle vnto the Thessalonians written from Athens.
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