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| [1]About the times but and seasons my brothers not you need to be written to you |
[1]But of the times and the seasons, my brethren, you need not that I write to you; |
| [2]You for truly know you that the day of our Lord as a thief in the night in this way comes |
[2]For you truly know that the day of our Lord as a thief in the night so cometh. |
| [3]When they will say "peace there is and quiet and then from the silence shall rise upon them destruction as labor pains upon a pregnant woman and not they will escape |
[3]While they shall be saying, Peace and tranquillity, then unawares will destruction arise against them, as distress upon the child-bearer, and they shall not escape. |
| [4]You but my brothers not you are in darkness that the day as a thief should overtake you |
[4]But you, my brethren, are not in darkness, that that day as a thief should overtake you. |
| [5]All of you for children of light are and children of day and not you are children of night neither children of darkness |
[5]For all of you are sons of light, and sons of the day; and are not sons of the night, nor sons of darkness. |
| [6]Not let us sleep therefore as the rest but let us be watchful and prudent |
[6]Sleep we not, therefore, as the rest; but be wakeful and sober. |
| [7]Those for who sleep in the night are sleeping and those who are drunk in the night are drunk |
[7]For they who sleep, in the night sleep; and they who are drunken, in the night are drunken. |
| [8]We but of the children of the day are let us be vigilant in our minds and put on the breastplate of faith and of love and let us take the helmet of the hope of Life |
[8]But we who are sons of the day must be wakeful in our minds, and wear the mail-coatⓘ of faith and of love, and put on the helmet of the hope of salvation. |
| [9]Because that not has appointed us Alaha to wrath but to the possession of Life in our Lord Ieshu The Messiah |
[9]For Aloha hath not appointed us to wrath, but to the possession of salvation in our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, |
| [10]Him Who died for our sake that if we are awake or if we sleep as one with Him we shall live |
[10]Who died on our behalf, that, whether we wake or sleep, together with him we may live. |
| [11]Because of this comfort one another and build up one another just as that also you have done |
[11]Wherefore comfort one another, and edify one another, as also you do. |
| [12]We beg but of you my brethren that you will recognize those who labor among you and have standing among you in our Lord and teach you |
[12]BUT I entreat of you, my brethren, to know them who labour among you, and stand before your faces teaching you, |
| [13]That you let them be esteemed to you in love greater and because of their works be at peace with them |
[13]That they be esteemed by you in abundant love; and on account of their work be at peace with them. |
| [14]We beg but of you my brothers correct wrongdoers and encourage the feeble souls bear the burdens of the weak and be long in your spirit to every person |
[14]And I entreat of you, my brethren, [to] admonish the offenders, and encourage the little of soul, and bear the burden of the weak, and prolong your spirit toward every man. |
| [15]And beware lest anyone of you evil in place of evil may reward but in every time run after good towards each one and to every person |
[15]And beware, lest any of you evil render for evil; but always follow after [those things which are] good [pl.] toward one another, and toward every man. |
| [16]Be rejoicing in every time |
[16]Be joyful always, |
| [17]And pray without ceasing |
[17]And pray without ceasing, |
| [18]And in every thing be giving thanks this is for the will of Alaha in Ieshu The Messiah in you |
[18]And in every thing give thanks; for this is the will of Aloha in Jeshu Meshiha concerning you. |
| [19]The Spirit not quench |
[19]The Spirit quench not. |
| [20]Prophecy not reject |
[20]Prophecy do not despise. |
| [21]Everything explore and what is excellent hold |
[21]Prove every thing, and what is good retain. |
| [22]And from every matter evil flee |
[22]And from every evil thingⓘ flee. |
| [23]He but The Alaha of peace shall make you holy perfectly all of you and whole your spirit and your soul and your body He shall keep without faults for the arrival of our Lord Ieshu The Messiah |
[23]But the God of peace himself will sanctify perfectly all of you; and your whole spirit, and your soul, and your body will he keep without fault, to the coming of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha. |
| [24]Faithful is He Who has called you it is He Who shall perform it |
[24]Faithful is he who hath called you, who himself will do it! |
| [25]My brethren pray for us |
[25]My brethren, pray for us. |
| [26]Invoke the peace of our brethren all of them with a kiss holy |
[26]Ask the peace of all our brethren, with the holy kiss. |
| [27]Bind in an oath I you by our Lord that will be read letter this to all the brethren holy |
[27]I adjure you, by our Lord, that this epistle be read to all the holy brethren. |
| [28]The grace of our Lord Ieshu The Messiah with you Amen |
[28]The grace of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha be with you. Amen.
Finished is the First Epistle to the Thesalonikoyee, which was written from Athines, and sent by the hands of Timotheos |