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For the Lorde himselfe shall descende from heauen with a shoute, and with the voyce of the Archangel, and with the trumpet of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

For ye your selues knowe perfectly, that the day of the Lorde shall come, euen as a thiefe in the night.

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,

For they that sleepe, sleepe in the night, and they that be drunken, are drunken in the night.

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.

For God hath not appointed vs vnto wrath, but to obtaine saluation by the meanes of our Lord Iesus Christ,

Which died for vs, that whether we wake or sleepe, we should liue together with him.

That yee haue them in singular loue for their workes sake. Bee at peace among your selues.

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.

In all thinges giue thankes: for this is the will of God in Christ Iesus toward you.

Brethren, pray for vs.

We ought to thanke God alwayes for you, brethren, as it is meete, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the loue of euery one of you toward another, aboundeth,

Which is a manifest token of the righteous iudgement of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdome of God, for the which ye also suffer.

For it is a righteous thing with God, to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you,

Wherefore, we also pray alwayes for you, that our God may make you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodnes, and the worke of faith with power,

Let no man deceiue you by any meanes: for that day shall not come, except there come a departing first, and that that man of sinne be disclosed, euen the sonne of perdition,

For the mysterie of iniquitie doeth already worke: onely he which nowe withholdeth, shall let till he be taken out of the way.

But we ought to giue thankes alway to God for you, brethren beloued of the Lord, because that God hath from the beginning chosen you to saluation, through sanctification of the Spirit, and the faith of trueth,

Fvrthermore, brethren, pray for vs, that the worde of the Lorde may haue free passage and be glorified, euen as it is with you,

And that we may be deliuered from vnreasonable and euill men: for all men haue not fayth.