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¹ But of the tymes & seasons brethre, ye haue no neede that I write vnto you.² For ye your selues knowe perfectlye that the day of the Lord shall so come euen as a theefe in the nyght.³ For when they shal say peace & safetie, then shall sodeyne destruction come vppon them, as sorowe vpon a woman with chylde, and they shall not escape.⁴ But ye brethren are not in darknesse, that that day shoulde ouertake you as a theefe.⁵ Ye are all the chyldren of lyght, and the chyldren of the daye: We are not of the nyght, neither of darkenesse.

⁶ Therefore let vs not sleepe, as [do] other: but let vs watche and be sober.⁷ For they that sleepe, sleepe in the night: and they that be druncken, are druncken in the nyght.⁸ But let vs which are of the day, be sober, puttyng on the brest plate of fayth and loue, and a helmet, the hope of saluation.⁹ For God hath not appoynted vs to wrath: but to obtayne saluation, by our Lorde Iesus Christe,¹⁰ Whiche dyed for vs, that whether we wake or sleepe, we shoulde lyue together with hym.

¹¹ Wherefore comfort your selues together, and edifie euery one another, euen as ye do. ¹² And we beseche you brethren to know them whiche labour among you, and haue the ouersight of you in the Lorde, and admonishe you:¹³ That ye haue them in hye reputation, in loue for their worke, and be at peace among your selues.¹⁴ We exhort you brethren, warne them that are vnruly, comfort the feeble mynded, lyft vp the weake, be pacient towarde all men.¹⁵ See that none recompence euyll for euyll vnto any man: but euer folowe that whiche is good, both among your selues, and to all men.

¹⁶ Reioyce euer.¹⁷ Pray continually.¹⁸ In all thinges geue thankes. For this [is] the wyl of God in Christe Iesus towarde you.¹⁹ Quenche not the spirite.²⁰ Despise not prophesiynges.²¹ Examine all thynges, holde fast that which is good.²² Abstayne from all appearaunce of euyll.

²³ And the very God of peace santifie you throughout [And I pray God] that your whole spirite, and soule, and body, may be preserued blamelesse in the comming of our Lorde Iesus Christe.²⁴ Faythfull is he whiche called you, whiche wyll also do it.²⁵ Brethren, pray for vs.²⁶ Greete all the brethren in an holy kysse.²⁷ I charge you in the Lorde, that this epistle be read vnto al the holy brethren.²⁸ The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be with you. Amen. The first (epistle) vnto the Thessalonians, written from Athens.