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All hail the power of Jesus' name,
let angels prostrate fall.
| 1 Thessalonians 3:6 | But just now Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought us the good news of (tēn | τήν | acc sg fem) your faith and your love; and that you always think of us with affection and long to see us even as we long to see you. |
| 1 Thessalonians 3:7 | So in all our distress and affliction, brothers, we have been reassured about you by your faith. |
| 1 Thessalonians 3:9 | For what thanksgiving can we return to (tō | τῷ | dat sg masc) God for you, for all the (tē | τῇ | dat sg fem) joy with which we rejoice before our God because of you? |
| 1 Thessalonians 3:10 | Night and day we pray most earnestly that we may see you face to face and supply what (ta | τά | acc pl neut) is lacking in (tēs | τῆς | gen sg fem) your faith. |
| 1 Thessalonians 3:11 | Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you. |
| 1 Thessalonians 3:12 | And may the (ho | ὁ | nom sg masc) Lord cause you to increase and abound in (tē | τῇ | dat sg fem) love for one another and for all, even as we do for you, |
| 1 Thessalonians 3:13 | so as to establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the (tē | τῇ | dat sg fem) coming of (tou | τοῦ | gen sg masc) our Lord Jesus with all his saints. |
| 1 Thessalonians 4:1 | Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to live so as to please God (even as you are doing), that you do so more and more. |
| 1 Thessalonians 4:2 | For you know what commands we gave you by the authority of the (tou | τοῦ | gen sg masc) Lord Jesus. |
| 1 Thessalonians 4:3 | For this is the will of (tou | τοῦ | gen sg masc) God — your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality, |
| 1 Thessalonians 4:4 | that each of you learn how to maintain control over his own “vessel” in holiness and honor, |
| 1 Thessalonians 4:5 | not with the passion of lust, like the (ta | τά | nom pl neut) Gentiles who (ta | τά | nom pl neut) do not know God. |
| 1 Thessalonians 4:6 | No one should sin against or take advantage of his brother in this (tō | τῷ | dat sg neut) matter, because the Lord is the avenger in all these things, as indeed we told you beforehand with solemn warning. |
| 1 Thessalonians 4:7 | For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness. |
| 1 Thessalonians 4:8 | Consequently the (ho | ὁ | nom sg masc) one who rejects this is not rejecting man, but God, who (ton | τόν | acc sg masc) also has given his Holy Spirit to you. |
| 1 Thessalonians 4:9 | Now with regard to brotherly love you have no need for us to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God how to love one another. |
| 1 Thessalonians 4:10 | Indeed you do show love toward all the (tous | τούς | acc pl masc) brothers throughout Macedonia, but we urge you, brothers, to do so more and more. |
| 1 Thessalonians 4:11 | Make it your aim to lead a quiet life, to attend to your own affairs, and to work with (tais | ταῖς | dat pl fem) your own hands, as we commanded you. |
| 1 Thessalonians 4:12 | In this way you will live a proper life before outsiders and be dependent on no one. |
| 1 Thessalonians 4:13 | Now we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those (tōn | τῶν | gen pl masc) who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as others do who (hoi | οἱ | nom pl masc) have no hope. |
| 1 Thessalonians 4:14 | For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also do we believe that God will bring with him those (tous | τούς | acc pl masc) who have fallen asleep in Jesus. |
| 1 Thessalonians 4:15 | For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who (hoi | οἱ | nom pl masc) are alive, who (hoi | οἱ | nom pl masc) remain behind until the (tēn | τήν | acc sg fem) coming of the (tou | τοῦ | gen sg masc) Lord, will by no means precede those (tous | τούς | acc pl masc) who have fallen asleep, |
| 1 Thessalonians 4:16 | because the (ho | ὁ | nom sg masc) Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the (hoi | οἱ | nom pl masc) dead in Christ will rise first. |
| 1 Thessalonians 4:17 | Then we who (hoi | οἱ | nom pl masc) are alive, who (hoi | οἱ | nom pl masc) remain behind, will be caught up in the clouds together with them to meet the (tou | τοῦ | gen sg masc) Lord in the air. And so we will be forever with the Lord. |
| 1 Thessalonians 4:18 | So encourage one another with these words. |