The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians

 1 Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have ^areceived of us how ye ought to ^bwalk and to ^cplease God, so ye would ^dabound more and more.

 2 For ye know what commandments ^awe gave you by the Lord Jesus.

 3 For this is the will of God, even your ^asanctification, that ye should ^babstain from ^cfornication:

 4 That every one of you should know how to possess his ^avessel in ^bsanctification and honour;

 5 Not in the ^alust of concupiscence, even as the ^bGentiles which ^cknow not God:

 6 That no man ^ago beyond and defraud his brother in ^bany matter: because that the Lord is the ^cavenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.

 7 For God hath not called us unto ^auncleanness, but unto holiness.

 8 He therefore that ^adespiseth, ^bdespiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his ^choly Spirit.

 9 But as touching ^abrotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are ^btaught of God to ^clove one another.

 10 And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;

 11 And that ye ^astudy to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to ^bwork with your own ^chands, as we commanded you;

 12 That ye may walk ^ahonestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.

 13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye ^asorrow not, even as others which have no ^bhope.

 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which ^asleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

 15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, ^athat ^bwe which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not ^cprevent them which are asleep.

 16 For the Lord himself shall ^adescend from heaven with ^ba shout, with the voice of the ^carchangel, and with the ^dtrump of God: and the dead in Christ shall ^erise first:

 17 ^aThen we which are alive and remain shall be ^bcaught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the ^cLord in the ^dair: and so shall we ^eever be with the ^fLord.

 18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.