circa AD 48–96
Letters to the Churches
Paul and other apostles write to strengthen, correct, and encourage the scattered churches across the Roman world.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:10c. AD 54
Which died for vs, that whether we wake or sleepe, we should liue together with him.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:11c. AD 54
Wherefore exhort one another, and edifie one another, euen as ye doe.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:12c. AD 54
Nowe we beseeche you, brethren, that ye acknowledge them, which labour among you, and are ouer you in the Lord, and admonish you,
- 1 Thessalonians 5:13c. AD 54
That yee haue them in singular loue for their workes sake. Bee at peace among your selues.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:14c. AD 54
We desire you, brethren, admonish them that are out of order: comfort ye feeble minded: beare with the weake: be pacient toward all men.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:15c. AD 54
See that none recompense euil for euil vnto any man: but euer follow that which is good, both toward your selues, and toward all men.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:16c. AD 54
Reioyce euermore.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:17c. AD 54
Pray continually.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:18c. AD 54
In all thinges giue thankes: for this is the will of God in Christ Iesus toward you.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:19c. AD 54
Quench not the Spirit.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:20c. AD 54
Despise not prophecying.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:21c. AD 54
Try all things, and keepe that which is good.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:22c. AD 54
Absteine from all appearance of euill.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:23c. AD 54
Nowe the very God of peace sanctifie you throughout: and I pray God that your whole spirite and soule and body, may be kept blamelesse vnto the comming of our Lord Iesus Christ.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:24c. AD 54
Faithfull is hee which calleth you, which will also doe it.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:25c. AD 54
Brethren, pray for vs.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:26c. AD 54
Greete all the brethren with an holy kisse.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:27c. AD 54
I charge you in the Lord, that this Epistle be read vnto all the brethren the Saintes.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:28c. AD 54
The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be with you, Amen. The first Epistle vnto the Thessalonians written from Athens.
- 2 Thessalonians 1:1c. AD 54
Paul and Siluanus, and Timotheus, vnto the Church of the Thessalonians, which is in God our Father, and in the Lord Iesus Christ:
- 2 Thessalonians 1:2c. AD 54
Grace be with you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Iesus Christ.
- 2 Thessalonians 1:3c. AD 54
We ought to thanke God alwayes for you, brethren, as it is meete, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the loue of euery one of you toward another, aboundeth,
- 2 Thessalonians 1:4c. AD 54
So that we our selues reioyce of you in the Churches of God, because of your patience and faith in al your persecutions and tribulatios that ye suffer,
- 2 Thessalonians 1:5c. AD 54
Which is a manifest token of the righteous iudgement of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdome of God, for the which ye also suffer.
- 2 Thessalonians 1:6c. AD 54
For it is a righteous thing with God, to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you,