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For ye are our glory, and our joy.

lest any of you should be disheartened by these afflictions; for ye know, that we are appointed thereto.

For also when we were with you, we forewarned you, that we were to be afflicted; as ye know did occur.

For what thanks can we render to God in your behalf, for all the joy with which we are joyful on your account;

For ye know what command we gave you in our Lord Jesus the Messiah.

For this is the pleasure of God, your sanctification; and that ye be separated from all whoredom;

For God did not call you unto impurity, but to sanctification.

Now concerning love to the brethren, ye need not that I should write to you; for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them who sleep, will God, by Jesus, bring with him.

for ye know assuredly, that the day of our Lord so cometh, as a thief by night.

For ye are all children of the light, and children of the day; and are not children of the night, and children of darkness.

For they who sleep, sleep in the night; and they who are drunken, are drunken in the night.

For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to the acquisition of life, by our Lord Jesus the Messiah:

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

And beware, lest any of you return evil for evil, but always follow good deeds, towards one another, and towards all men.

And in every thing be thankful: For this is the pleasure of God in Jesus the Messiah, concerning you.

My brethren, pray for us.

We are bound to give thanks to God always, on your account, my brethren, as it is proper; because your faith groweth exceedingly, and, in you all, the love of each for his fellow increaseth.

for a demonstration of the righteous judgment of God; that ye may be worthy of his kingdom, on account of which ye suffer.

For these will be recompensed with the judgment of eternal destruction, from the presence of our Lord, and from the glory of his power;