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For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the
tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.
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But now when Timotheus came from you
unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good remembrance
of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also
to see
you:
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Therefore, brethren, we were
comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:
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For now we live, if ye stand
fast in the Lord.
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For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith
we joy for your sakes before our God;
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Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your
face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
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Now God himself and our Father,
and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.
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And the Lord make you to increase and
abound in love one toward another, and toward all
men,
even as we
do
toward you:
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To the end
he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming
of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.
CHAPTER THESSALONIANS 4
Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort
you
by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have
received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God,
so
ye would abound more and more.
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For
ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
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For this is the will of God,
even
your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
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That every one of you should know
how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
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Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as
the Gentiles which know not God:
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That no
man
go beyond and defraud his brother in
any
matter:
because that the Lord
is
the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
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For
God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
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He therefore that despiseth, despiseth
not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
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But as touching brotherly love ye
need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
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And
indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren,
that ye increase more and more;
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And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and
to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
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That ye may walk honestly toward them
that are without, and
that
ye may have lack of nothing.
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But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye
sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
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For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again,
even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
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For this we say unto you by the
word of the Lord, that we which are alive
and
remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent
them which are asleep.
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For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the
voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
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Then
we which are alive
and
remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the
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