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and have acted adversely to all men; who forbid us to speak with the Gentiles that they might be saved; to fill up their sins for all time: but upon them cometh the wrath unto the end !

17 BUT we, my brethren, having been bereaved-ones of you the time of an hour, as to our presence, [fn] but not in our heart, have been the more solicitous to see your faces with great love,

and have wished to come to you (even) I, Paulos, one time and two; but Satana hindered me.

For what is our hope and our joy, and the crown of our glorying, but you, before our Lord Jeshu at his coming ?

but now when Timotheos came to us from among you, and gave us intelligence of your faith and of your love, and that you have a good remembrance of us in every season, and desire to see us as we also (to see) you;

But Aloha himself, the Father of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, will make straight our way to you,

For Aloha hath not called us to uncleanness, but unto sanctification.

8 Therefore, whoever despiseth, not man he despiseth, but Aloha, who hath ingiven you his Holy Spirit. [fn]

But concerning the love of the brethren, you need not (that I) write to you; for you yourselves are taught of Aloha to love one another.

10 And so do you to all the brethren who are in all Makedunia; but I beseech of you, my brethren, to excel [fn] .

BUT I wish you to know, my brethren, that for those who are asleep you should not have sorrow, as the rest of men, who have no hope.

15 But this we say to you by the word of our Lord, that we who [fn] remaining at the coming of our Lord, [fn] who [fn] live, will not precede those who have slept.

But of the times and the seasons, my brethren, you need not that I write to you;

But you, my brethren, are not in darkness, that that day as a thief should overtake you.

Sleep we not, therefore, as the rest; but be wakeful and sober.

8 But we who are sons of the day must be wakeful in our minds, and wear the mail-coat [fn] of faith and of love, and put on the helmet of the hope of salvation.

For Aloha hath not appointed us to wrath, but to the possession of salvation in our Lord Jeshu Meshiha,

BUT I entreat of you, my brethren, to know them who labour among you, and stand before your faces teaching you,

And beware, lest any of you evil render for evil; but always follow after (those things which are) good (pl.) toward one another, and toward every man.

But the God of peace himself will sanctify perfectly all of you; and your whole spirit, and your soul, and your body will he keep without fault, to the coming of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha.