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unceasingly remembering of you the work of the faith, and the labour of the love, and the endurance of the hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father,

having known, brethren beloved, by God, your election,

for they themselves concerning us do declare what entrance we had unto you, and how ye did turn unto God from the idols, to serve a living and true God,

but having both suffered before, and having been injuriously treated (as ye have known) in Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the good news of God in much conflict,

but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who is proving our hearts,

for at no time did we come with speech of flattery, (as ye have known,) nor in a pretext for covetousness, (God is witness!)

so being desirous of you, we are well-pleased to impart to you not only the good news of God, but also our own souls, because beloved ye have become to us,

for ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail, for, night and day working not to be a burden upon any of you, we did preach to you the good news of God;

ye are witnesses--God also--how kindly and righteously, and blamelessly to you who believe we became,

for your walking worthily of God, who is calling you to His own reign and glory.

Because of this also, we--we do give thanks to God continually, that, having received the word of hearing from us of God, ye accepted, not the word of man, but as it is truly, the word of God, who also doth work in you who believe;

for ye became imitators, brethren, of the assemblies of God that are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because such things ye suffered, even ye, from your own countrymen, as also they from the Jews,

who did both put to death the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and did persecute us, and God they are not pleasing, and to all men are contrary,

and did send Timotheus--our brother, and a ministrant of God, and our fellow-workman in the good news of the Christ--to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith,

for what thanks are we able to recompense to God for you, for all the joy with which we do joy because of you in the presence of our God?

And our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you,

to the establishing your hearts blameless in sanctification before our God and Father, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.

As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,

for this is the will of God--your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,

not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,

for God did not call us on uncleanness, but in sanctification;

he, therefore, who is despising--doth not despise man, but God, who also did give His Holy Spirit to us.

And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of my writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another,

for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also God those asleep through Jesus he will bring with him,

because the Lord himself, in a shout, in the voice of a chief-messenger, and in the trump of God, shall come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ shall rise first,