| 1:1 |
Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. |
Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace and peace to yall. |
| 1:2 |
We always give thanks to God for all of you, mentioning you in our prayers, |
We always thank God for all yall, mentioning yall in our prayers, |
| 1:3 |
remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father. |
constantly remembering before our God and Father yalls work of faith, labor of love, and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. |
| 1:4 |
We know, brothers loved by God, that you are chosen, |
We know, siblings beloved by God, that yall are chosen, |
| 1:5 |
and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake. |
and that our gospel came to yall not only in word, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with deep conviction. Yall saw how we lived among yall for your* sake. |
| 1:6 |
You became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit, |
Yall became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word with the joy of the Holy Spirit despite deep oppression. |
| 1:7 |
so that you became an example to all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia. |
As a result, yall became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia. |
| 1:8 |
For from you the word of the Lord has been declared, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out, so that we need not to say anything. |
For the word of the Lord has reverberated out from yall, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but your* faith in God has spread everywhere. We dont even need to say anything, |
| 1:9 |
For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God, |
for the people themselves are reporting what kind of reception we had with yall, and how yall turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God, |
| 1:10 |
and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come. |
and to wait for ʜɪꜱ Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come. |
| 2:1 |
For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasnt in vain, |
For yall know, siblings, that our visit to yall wasnt in vain. |
| 2:2 |
but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict. |
Although we suffered and were mistreated in Philippi, as yall know, we found confidence in our God to tell yall the gospel of God amid deep opposition. |
| 2:3 |
For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception. |
For our exhortation does not come from error, impurity, or deception. |
| 2:4 |
But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak—not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts. |
Rather, we speak as those who have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel—not to please humans, but God, who tests our hearts. |
| 2:5 |
For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness God is witness, |
For yall know that we never came with flattering speech or with a cover for greed—God is our witness— |
| 2:6 |
nor seeking glory from men neither from you nor from others, when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ. |
nor did we seek glory from humans, not from yall or anyone else, even though as apostles of Christ we could have asserted our authority. |
| 2:7 |
But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children. |
Instead, we were gentle among yall. As a nursing mother cherishes her own children, |
| 2:8 |
Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us. |
so we have a fond affection for yall. We were happy to share with yall not only the gospel of God, but also our own souls, because yall had become beloved to us. |
| 2:9 |
For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God. |
For yall remember, siblings, our labor and hardship. By working night and day and not burdening yall, we preached the gospel of God to yall. |
| 2:10 |
You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe. |
Yall are witnesses, and so is God, of how holy, righteous, and blameless we were among yall who believe. |
| 2:11 |
As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children, |
As yall know, we exhorted and comforted every one of yall, as a father does his own children, |
| 2:12 |
to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory. |
imploring yall to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls yall into ʜɪꜱ own empire and glory. |
| 2:13 |
For this cause we also thank God without ceasing that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, Gods word, which also works in you who believe. |
And we also thank God constantly because when yall received the word of God from us, yall accepted it not as a human word, but as it is in truth, Gods word, which also works in yall who believe. |
| 2:14 |
For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews |
For siblings, yall became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea in that yall suffered from your* own countrymen, just as they did from the Jews |
| 2:15 |
who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and dont please God, and are contrary to all men, |
who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out. They are not pleasing God, and are opposed to all humans, |
| 2:16 |
forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost. |
forbidding us to speak to the ethnic groups so that they may be saved. Thus they always fill up their sins, but wrath has come on them to completion. |
| 2:17 |
But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire, |
But siblings, when we were taken away from yall for a short time in presence, not in heart, we became all the more eager in our great desire to see yalls face. |
| 2:18 |
because we wanted to come to you—indeed, I, Paul, once and again—but Satan hindered us. |
For we wanted to come to yall—indeed, I, Paul, tried more than once—but Satan hindered us. |
| 2:19 |
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isnt it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming? |
For what is our hope or joy or crown of glory? Isnt it yall in the presence of our Lord Jesus at his coming? |
| 2:20 |
For you are our glory and our joy. |
For yall are our glory and our joy. |
| 3:1 |
Therefore when we couldnt stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone, |
So when we couldnt stand it any longer, we thought it best to stay in Athens alone. |
| 3:2 |
and sent Timothy, our brother and Gods servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you and to comfort you concerning your faith, |
We sent Timothy, our sibling and Gods deacon in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen yall and encourage your* faith, |
| 3:3 |
that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task. |
so that no one would be shaken by these oppressions. For yall know that we are destined to this. |
| 3:4 |
For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know. |
In fact, when we were with yall, we were telling yall in advance that we would be persecuted. And so it happened as yall well know. |
| 3:5 |
For this cause I also, when I couldnt stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain. |
For this reason, when I could endure it no longer, I sent to find out about yalls faith, for fear that the tempter had somehow tempted yall, and our labor would have been in vain. |
| 3:6 |
But Timothy has just now come to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you. |
But Timothy has just now come to us from yall, and brought us good news of yalls faith and love, and that yall have pleasant memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see yall. |
| 3:7 |
For this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith. |
For this reason, siblings, in all our distress and oppression, we were encouraged about yall because of yalls faith. |
| 3:8 |
For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord. |
For now we really live, since yall are standing firm in the Lord. |
| 3:9 |
For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God, |
For how can we thank God enough for yall in return for all the joy we have before our God because of yall? |
| 3:10 |
night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith? |
Night and day, we pray earnestly that we may see yalls face and may complete what is lacking in yalls faith. |
| 3:11 |
Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you. |
Now may our God and Father ʜɪᴍꜱᴇʟꜰ, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to yall. |
| 3:12 |
May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all men, even as we also do toward you, |
May the Lord make yall increase and abound in love for one another and for all people, just as we do for yall, |
| 3:13 |
to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints. |
so that he may strengthen yalls hearts to be blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints. |
| 4:1 |
Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more. |
Additionally then, siblings, we ask and urge yall in the Lord Jesus, that as yall received instruction from us on how you* should live to please God—as yall are doing—do it all the more. |
| 4:2 |
For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus. |
For yall know what commands we gave you* by the authority of the Lord Jesus. |
| 4:3 |
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, |
This is Gods will for your* sanctification: that yall keep away from sexual immorality, |
| 4:4 |
that each one of you know how to control his own body in sanctification and honor, |
that each of yall know how to control your own body in holiness and honor, |
| 4:5 |
not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who dont know God, |
not in lustful desires like the ethnic groups that dont know God. |
| 4:6 |
that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified. |
This means that no one should violate and take advantage of a sibling, because the Lord is an avenger in all such things, as we told yall earlier and solemnly warned yall. |
| 4:7 |
For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification. |
For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness. |
| 4:8 |
Therefore he who rejects this doesnt reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you. |
Consequently the one who rejects this doesnt reject human authority, but God, who gives ʜɪꜱ Holy Spirit to yall. |
| 4:9 |
But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another, |
Now about brotherly love, yall dont need anyone to write to you*. For yall have been God taught to love one another. |
| 4:10 |
for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more; |
In fact, yall are practicing this toward all the siblings throughout Macedonia. Yet we urge yall, siblings, to do this all the more, |
| 4:11 |
and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you, |
to seek to lead a quiet life, to manage your own affairs, and to work with your* own hands, just as we instructed yall, |
| 4:12 |
that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing. |
so that yall may behave properly around outsiders, and not be dependent on anyone. |
| 4:13 |
But we dont want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you dont grieve like the rest, who have no hope. |
Now, siblings, we dont want yall to be ignorant about those who have fallen asleep, so that yall do not grieve like those who have no hope. |
| 4:14 |
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus. |
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we also believe that, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. |
| 4:15 |
For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep. |
We tell yall this according to the word of the Lord: those who remain alive until the coming of the Lord will not precede those who have fallen asleep. |
| 4:16 |
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with Gods trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first, |
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. |
| 4:17 |
then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever. |
Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. |
| 4:18 |
Therefore comfort one another with these words. |
Therefore yall comfort one another with these words. |
| 5:1 |
But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you. |
Now siblings, concerning the times and the seasons, yall dont need anything to be written to you*. |
| 5:2 |
For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night. |
For yall know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. |
| 5:3 |
For when they are saying, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape. |
While people are saying, Peace and safety, destruction will come on them suddenly, like birth pains on a pregnant woman, and then there will be no escape. |
| 5:4 |
But you, brothers, arent in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief. |
But siblings, yall arent in darkness where the day could overtake you* like a thief. |
| 5:5 |
You are all children of light and children of the day. We dont belong to the night, nor to darkness, |
Yall are all children of light and children of the day. We dont belong to the night or to the darkness. |
| 5:6 |
so then lets not sleep, as the rest do, but lets watch and be sober. |
So then let us not sleep as others do, but let us be alert and sober. |
| 5:7 |
For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night. |
For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk get drunk at night. |
| 5:8 |
But since we belong to the day, lets be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation. |
But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and the helmet of the hope of salvation. |
| 5:9 |
For God didnt appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, |
For God didnt appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, |
| 5:10 |
who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. |
who died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with him. |
| 5:11 |
Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do. |
Therefore yall should encourage one another and build each other up, just as yall are already doing. |
| 5:12 |
But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord and admonish you, |
Now we ask yall, siblings, to acknowledge those who work diligently among yall, who lead yall in the Lord and who admonish yall. |
| 5:13 |
and to respect and honor them in love for their works sake. Be at peace among yourselves. |
Respect and honor them in love for their works sake. Yall should live in peace with each other. |
| 5:14 |
We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all. |
Siblings, we urge yall: yall must warn the undisciplined, encourage the disheartened, support the weak, and be patient with everyone. |
| 5:15 |
See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good for one another and for all. |
Yall see to it that no one pays back evil with evil. Instead, yall should always pursue what is good for one another and for all. |
| 5:16 |
Always rejoice. |
Rejoice always, yall. |
| 5:17 |
Pray without ceasing. |
Pray constantly, yall. |
| 5:18 |
In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you. |
Give thanks in everything, yall. For this is the will of God in Christ Jesus in yall. |
| 5:19 |
Dont quench the Spirit. |
Yall must not quench the Spirit. |
| 5:20 |
Dont despise prophecies. |
Yall must not despise prophecies. |
| 5:21 |
Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good. |
Instead yall should test all things, and hold firmly to what is excellent. |
| 5:22 |
Abstain from every form of evil. |
Yall must stay away from every form of evil. |
| 5:23 |
May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. |
May the God of peace ʜɪᴍꜱᴇʟꜰ sanctify yall completely. May yalls whole spirit, soul, and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. |
| 5:24 |
He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it. |
Hᴇ who calls yall is faithful, and ʜᴇ will make it happen. |
| 5:25 |
Brothers, pray for us. |
Siblings, pray for us, yall. |
| 5:26 |
Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss. |
Yall greet all the siblings with a holy kiss. |
| 5:27 |
I solemnly command you by the Lord that this letter be read to all the holy brothers. |
I solemnly command yall by the Lord that this letter be read to all the holy siblings. |
| 5:28 |
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. |
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with yall. |