1 Thessalonians

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1 Thessalonians 2:11 (KJV) As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,

 

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1 Thessalonians 2:12 (KJV) That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.

 

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1 Thessalonians 2:13 (KJV) For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

 

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1 Thessalonians 2:14 (KJV) For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:

 

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1 Thessalonians 2:15 (KJV) Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:

 

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1 Thessalonians 2:16 (KJV) Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

 

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1 Thessalonians 2:17 (KJV) But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.

 

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1 Thessalonians 2:18 (KJV) Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.

 

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1 Thessalonians 2:19 (KJV) For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?

 

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1 Thessalonians 2:20 (KJV) For ye are our glory and joy.

 

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1 Thessalonians 3:1 (KJV) Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone;

 

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Young) 1 Thessalonians 3:2 and did send Timotheus--our brother, and a ministrant of God, and our fellow-workman in the good news of the Christ--to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith,

 

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[FONT=Arial, Geneva, Helvetica]so that no one would be unsettled by these trials. You know quite well that we were destined for them.[/FONT]

 

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1 Thessalonians 3:4 (KJV) For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know.

 

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1 Thessalonians 3:5 (KJV) For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.

 

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1 Thessalonians 3:6 (KJV) But now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you:

 

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1 Thessalonians 3:7 (KJV) Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:

 

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1 Thessalonians 3:8 (KJV) For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.

 

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1 Thessalonians 3:9 (KJV) For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;

 

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1Th 3:10 as we night and day keep praying most earnestly that we may see your face, and may complete what is lacking in your faith?