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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Now on the topic of times and seasons, brothers and sisters, you have no need for anything to be written to you. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2For you know quite well that the day of the Lord will come in the same way as a thief in the night. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Now when they are saying, "There is peace and security," then sudden destruction comes on them, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will surely not escape. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4But you, brothers and sisters, are not in the darkness for the day to overtake you like a thief would. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5For you all are sons of the light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of the darkness. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6So then we must not sleep as the rest, but must stay alert and sober. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7For those who sleep, sleep at night and those who get drunk are drunk at night. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8But since we are of the day, we must stay sober by putting on the breastplate of faith and love and as a helmet our hope for salvation. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9For God did not destine us for wrath but for gaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10He died for us so that whether we are alert or asleep we will come to life together with him. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, just as you are in fact doing. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Now we ask you, brothers and sisters, to acknowledge those who labor among you and preside over you in the Lord and admonish you, |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13and to esteem them most highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14And we urge you, brothers and sisters, admonish the undisciplined, comfort the discouraged, help the weak, be patient toward all. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15See that no one pays back evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good for one another and for all. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Always rejoice, |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17constantly pray, |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18in everything give thanks. For this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Do not extinguish the Spirit. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Do not treat prophecies with contempt. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21But examine all things; hold fast to what is good. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Stay away from every form of evil. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Now may the God of peace himself make you completely holy and may your spirit and soul and body be kept entirely blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24He who calls you is trustworthy, and he will in fact do this. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Brothers and sisters, pray for us too. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Greet all the brothers and sisters with a holy kiss. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27I call on you solemnly in the Lord to have this letter read to all the brothers and sisters. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. |
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