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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.

2,767 verses · 21 books covered

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  1. Which died for vs, that whether we wake or sleepe, we should liue together with him.

  2. Wherefore exhort one another, and edifie one another, euen as ye doe.

  3. Nowe we beseeche you, brethren, that ye acknowledge them, which labour among you, and are ouer you in the Lord, and admonish you,

  4. That yee haue them in singular loue for their workes sake. Bee at peace among your selues.

  5. We desire you, brethren, admonish them that are out of order: comfort ye feeble minded: beare with the weake: be pacient toward all men.

  6. 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.

  7. Reioyce euermore.

  8. Pray continually.

  9. In all thinges giue thankes: for this is the will of God in Christ Iesus toward you.

  10. Quench not the Spirit.

  11. Despise not prophecying.

  12. Try all things, and keepe that which is good.

  13. Absteine from all appearance of euill.

  14. 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.

  15. Faithfull is hee which calleth you, which will also doe it.

  16. Brethren, pray for vs.

  17. Greete all the brethren with an holy kisse.

  18. I charge you in the Lord, that this Epistle be read vnto all the brethren the Saintes.

  19. The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be with you, Amen. The first Epistle vnto the Thessalonians written from Athens.

  20. Paul and Siluanus, and Timotheus, vnto the Church of the Thessalonians, which is in God our Father, and in the Lord Iesus Christ:

  21. Grace be with you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Iesus Christ.

  22. 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,

  23. 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,

  24. 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.

  25. For it is a righteous thing with God, to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you,