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20 not bitter against them. Children, obey your parents 21 in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord. Fa

thers, provoke not your children, that they be not

22 discouraged. Servants, obey in all things them that 1 Gr. Bondservants. are your masters according to the flesh; not with 2 Gr. lords. eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart,

23 fearing the Lord: whatsoever ye do, work heartily, 3 Gr. from the soul. 24 as unto the Lord, and not unto men; knowing that

from the Lord ye shall receive the recompense of the 25 inheritance: ye serve the Lord Christ. For he that

the wrong.

doeth wrong shall receive again for the wrong that 4 Gr. receive again he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.

4 Masters, render unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master 5 Gr. equality. in heaven.

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Continue stedfastly in prayer, watching therein 3 with thanksgiving; withal praying for us also, that God may open unto us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds; 4 that I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.

opportunity.

5 Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, re- 6 Gr. buying up the 6 deeming the time. Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.

7 All my affairs shall Tychicus make known unto you, the beloved brother and faithful minister and 8 fellow-servant in the Lord: whom I have sent unto you for this very purpose, that ye may know our 9 estate, and that he may comfort your hearts; together with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They shall make known unto you all things that are done here.

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Aristarchus my fellow-prisoner saluteth you, and Mark, the cousin of Barnabas (touching whom ye received commandments; if he come unto you, re11 ceive him), and Jesus, which is called Justus, who are of the circumcision: these only are my fellowworkers unto the kingdom of God, men that have 12 been a comfort unto me. Epaphras, who is one of you, a 'servant of Christ Jesus, saluteth you, always 7 Gr. bondservant. striving for you in his prayers, that ye may stand 13 perfect and fully assured in all the will of God. For I bear him witness, that he hath much labour for you, and for them in Laodicea, and for them in Hierapo- & The Greek may 14 lis. Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas salute represent Nym15 you. Salute the brethren that are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church that is in their house. 16 And when 10this epistle hath been read among you, 10 Gr.the.

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9 Some ancient authorities read her.

cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye also read the epistle from Laodicea. And say to Archippus, Take heed to the min-17 istry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it.

The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand. 18 Remember my bonds. Grace be with you.

THE

FIRST EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE

TO THE

THESSALONIANS.

1 PAUL, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the church

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of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace.

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gospel, &c.

2 Or, Holy Spirit 3 Or, fulness

We give thanks to God always for you all, mak3 ing mention of you in our prayers; remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labour of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, 4 before our God and Father; knowing, brethren be5 loved of God, your election, 'how that our gospel 1 Or, because our came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the 'Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; even as ye know what manner of men we shewed 6 ourselves toward you for your sake. And ye became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the 72Holy Ghost; so that ye became an ensample to all 8 that believe in Macedonia and in Achaia. For from you hath sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith to God-ward is gone forth; so that we 9 need not to speak any thing. For they themselves report concerning us what manner of entering in we had unto you; and how ye turned unto God 10 from idols, to serve a living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivereth us from the wrath to come.

2 For yourselves, brethren, know our entering in 2 unto you, that it hath not been found vain: but having suffered before, and been shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we waxed bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God in

1 Or, claimed hon

our

cient authorities read babes.

much conflict. For our exhortation is not of error, 3 nor of uncleanness, nor in guile: but even as we 4 have been approved of God to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God which proveth our hearts. For neither at any time 5 were we found using words of flattery, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness, God is witness; nor 6 seeking glory of men, neither from you, nor from others, when we might have been burdensome*, 2 Most of the an- as apostles of Christ. But we were gentle in the 7 midst of you, as when a nurse cherisheth her own children: even so, being affectionately desirous of 8 you, we were well pleased to impart unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were become very dear to us. For ye re- 9 member, brethren, our labour and travail: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God." Ye are 10 witnesses, and God also, how holily and righteously and unblameably we behaved ourselves toward you that believe: as ye know how we dealt with each 11 one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging you, and testifying, to the end that ye should walk worthily of God, 12 3 Some ancient au- who calleth you into his own kingdom and glory. And for this cause we also thank God without 13 4 Gr. the word of ceasing, that, when ye received from us the word of the message, even the word of God, ye accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also worketh in you that believe. For ye, brethren, became imitators of the 14 churches of God which are in Judæa in Christ Jesus: for ye also suffered the same things of your own countrymen, even as they did of the Jews; who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, 15 and drave out us, and please not God, and are contrary to all men; forbidding us to speak to the Gen- 16 tiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins alway but the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

thorities read call

ed.

hearing.

5 Gr. a season of an hour.

But we, brethren, being bereaved of you for a 17 short season, in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more exceedingly to see your face with great desire because we would fain have come unto 18 you, I Paul once and again; and Satan hindered us.

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Let marg. run claimed authority, and then let the marg. and the text exchange places.-Am. Com.

19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glorying?

Are not even ye, before our Lord Jesus at his 'com- 1 Gr. presence. 20 ing? For ye are our glory and our joy.

3 Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we

low-worker with

thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone; 2 Some ancient au2 and sent Timothy, our brother and God's minister thorities read felin the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to God. 3 comfort you concerning your faith; that no man be moved by these afflictions; for yourselves know 4 that hereunto we are appointed. For verily, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that 3 Or, plainly we are to suffer affliction; even as it came to pass, 5 and ye know. For this cause I also, when I could no longer forbear, sent that I might know your faith, lest by any means the tempter had tempted 6 you, and our labour should be in vain. But when Timothy came even now unto us from you, and brought us glad tidings of your faith and love, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, 7 longing to see us, even as we also to see you; for this cause, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith: for now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord. For what thanksgiving can we render again unto God for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your 10 sakes before our God; night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

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11 Now may our God and Father himself, and our 12 Lord Jesus, direct our way unto you: and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also 13 do toward you; to the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before our God and Father, at the 'coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.4

4 Many ancient authorities add Amen.

4 Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye 2 do walk,-that ye abound more and more. For ye know what charge we gave you through the Lord 5 Gr. charges. 3 Jesus. For this is the will of God, even your sanc4 tification, that ye abstain from fornication; that

each one of you know how to possess himself of 5 his own vessel in sanctification and honour, not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles which

6 know not God; that no man transgress, and wrong 6 Or, overreach his brother in the matter: because the Lord is an

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