God

Without ceasing, remembring your effectuall faith, and diligent loue, and the patience of your hope in our Lord Iesus Christ, in the sight of God euen our Father,

Knowing, beloued brethren, that ye are elect of God.

For they themselues shew of vs what maner of entring in we had vnto you, and how ye turned to God from idoles, to serue the liuing and true God,

But euen after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated at Philippi, (as ye knowe) we were bolde in our God, to speake vnto you the Gospell of God with much striuing.

But as we were allowed of God, that the Gospel should be committed vnto vs, so we speake, not as they that please men, but God, which approoueth our hearts.

Neither yet did we euer vse flattering wordes, as ye knowe, nor coloured couetousnes, God is recorde.

Thus being affectioned toward you, our good will was to haue dealt vnto you, not the Gospel of God onely, but also our owne soules, because ye were deare vnto vs.

For ye remember, brethren, our labour and trauaile: for we laboured day and night, because we would not be chargeable vnto any of you, and preached vnto you the Gospel of God.

Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily, and iustly, and vnblameably we behaued our selues among you that beleeue.

That ye would walke worthy of God, who hath called you vnto his kingdome and glorie.

For this cause also thanke we God without ceasing, that when ye receiued the worde of God, which ye heard of vs, ye receiued it not as the worde of men, but as it is in deede the worde of God, which also worketh in you that beleeue.

For brethren, ye are become folowers of the Churches of God, which in Iudea are in Christ Iesus, because ye haue also suffred the same things of your owne countrey men, euen as they haue of the Iewes,

Who both killed the Lord Iesus and their owne Prophets, and haue persecuted vs away, and God they please not, and are contrary to all men,

And haue sent Timotheus our brother and minister of God, and our labour felow in the Gospel of Christ, to stablish you, and to comfort you touching your faith,

For what thankes can wee recompense to God againe for you, for all the ioy wherewith we reioyce for your sakes before our God,

Nowe God himselfe, euen our Father, and our Lord Iesus Christ, guide our iourney vnto you,

To make your hearts stable and vnblameable in holines before God euen our Father, at the comming of our Lord Iesus Christ with all his Saints.

And furthermore we beseeche you, brethren, and exhort you in the Lord Iesus, that ye increase more and more, as ye haue receiued of vs, how ye ought to walke, and to please God.

For this is the will of God euen your sanctification, and that ye should abstaine from fornication,

And not in the lust of concupiscence, euen as the Gentiles which know not God:

For God hath not called vs vnto vncleannesse, but vnto holinesse.

Hee therefore that despiseth these thinges, despiseth not man, but God who hath euen giuen you his holy Spirit.

But as touching brotherly loue, ye neede not that I write vnto you: for ye are taught of God to loue one another.

For if we beleeue that Iesus is dead, and is risen, euen so them which sleepe in Iesus, will God bring with him.

For the Lord 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: