Letters to the Churches

But the Lord is faithfull, which wil stablish you, and keepe you from euill.

And we are perswaded of you through the Lord, that ye both doe, and will doe the things which we warne you of.

And the Lord guide your hearts to the loue of God, and the waiting for of Christ.

We warne you, brethren, in the Name of our Lord Iesus Christ, that ye withdrawe your selues from euery brother that walketh inordinately, and not after the instruction, which hee receiued of vs.

For ye your selues know, how ye ought to follow vs: for we behaued not our selues inordinately among you,

Neither tooke we bread of any man for nought: but we wrought with labour and trauaile night and day, because we would not be chargeable to any of you.

Not because we haue not authoritie, but that we might make our selues an ensample vnto you to follow vs.

For euen when we were with you, this we warned you of, that if there were any, which would not worke, that he should not eate.

For we heare, that there are some which walke among you inordinately, and worke not at all, but are busie bodies.

Therefore them that are such, we warne and exhort by our Lord Iesus Christ, that they worke with quietnes, and eate their owne bread.

And ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.

If any man obey not this our saying in this letter, note him, and haue no company with him, that he may be ashamed:

Yet count him not as an enemie, but admonish him as a brother.

Now the Lord himselfe of peace giue you peace alwayes by all meanes. The Lord be with you all.

The salutation of me Paul, with mine owne hand, which is ye token in euery Epistle: so I write,

The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be with you all, Amen. The second Epistle to the Thessalonians, written from Athens.

Pavl an Apostle of Iesvs Christ, by the commandement of God our Sauiour, and of our Lord Iesus Christ our hope,

Vnto Timotheus my naturall sonne in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father, and from Christ Iesus our Lord.

As I besought thee to abide still in Ephesus, when I departed into Macedonia, so doe, that thou mayest warne some, that they teach none other doctrine,

Neither that they giue heede to fables and genealogies which are endles, which breede questions rather then godly edifying which is by fayth.

For the end of the commandement is loue out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith vnfained.

From the which things some haue erred, and haue turned vnto vaine iangling.

They would be doctours of the Law, and yet vnderstande not what they speake, neither whereof they affirme.

And we knowe, that the Law is good, if a man vse it lawfully,

Knowing this, that the Lawe is not giuen vnto a righteous man, but vnto the lawles and disobedient, to the vngodly, and to sinners, to the vnholy, and to the prophane, to murtherers of fathers and mothers, to manslayers,