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1st & 2nd THESSALONIANS (with Strong’s numbers)

1st & 2nd Thessalonians has not had the English modernized yet, except for occasional verses. Word processing has been done, particularly replacement of obsolete words.

Paul’s FIRST Letter to the Thessalonians

Introduction

1st Thessalonians 1: I PAUL and Sylvanus and Timothy, to the assembly of Thessalonians, which is in Yehovah’ the Father and in our Master Yeshua the Messiah: *merciful kindness* be with you, and peace. 2 We give thanks to Yehovah at all times, on account of you all, and remember you continually in our prayers: 3 and we call to mind before Yehovah the Father the works of your faith, and the toil of your love, and the patience of your hope in our Master Yeshua the Messiah. 4 For we know your election, my brethren, beloved of Yehovah. 5 For our preaching among you, was not in words only; but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in genuine persuasion. You also know, how we were among you for your sakes. 6 And you became imitators of us, and of our Master, in that you received the word in great affliction, and with the joy of the Holy Spirit. 7 And you were a pattern for all the believers who is in Macedonia and in Achaia. 8 For from you the word of our Master sounded forth; and not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place, your faith in Yehovah is heard of; so that we have no need to say anything concerning you. 9 For they declare, what an ingress we had to you, and how you turned from the worship of idols to Yehovah, that you might worship the living and true Yehovah; 10 while you wait for his Son from heaven, that Yeshua who he raised from the dead, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

1st Thessalonians 2: You yourselves, brethren, know our entrance among you, that it was not in vain: 2 but we first suffered and were treated with indignity, as you know, at Philippi; and then, in a great agony, with confidence in our Yehovah, we addressed to you the *Good News* of the Messiah. 3 For our exhortation proceeded not from deceit, nor from impurity, nor in guile: 4 but as we had been approved of Yehovah to be entrusted with the Evangel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but Yehovah who searches our hearts. 5 For we have never used flattering speech; as you know; nor a cloak of cupidity, Yehovah is witness. 6 Neither have we sought praise from men, either from you or from others, when we might have been chargeable as heralds* of the Messiah. 7 But we were lowly among you; and like a nurse, who [caresses] her children, 8 so we also caressed you, and desired to impart to you, not only the *Good News* of Yehovah, but also our own soul, because you were dear to us. 9 For you [remember], brethren, that we labored and toiled, working with our own hands, night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any one of you. 10 you are witnesses, and Yehovah also, how we preached to you the *Good News* of Yehovah, purely, and uprightly, and were blameless towards all them who believe: 11 as yourselves know, we entreated each one of you, as a father his children, and comforted your hearts: 12 and we charged you, to walk as it becomes Yehovah, who has called you to his kingdom and his glory. 13 We also give thanks unceasingly to Yehovah, that the word of Yehovah which you received from us, you didn’t receive as the word of men, but as being truly the word of Yehovah, which works efficiently in you and in them who believe. 14 For you, my brethren, became assimilated into the assemblies of Yehovah in Judea, the persons who is in Yeshua the Messiah; in that you so suffered, even you from your own countrymen, as also they from the Jews, 15 the persons who killed our Master Yeshua the Messiah, and persecuted their own prophets and us; and they dont please Yehovah, and are made hostile to all men; 16 and they forbid us to speak to other ethnicities*, that they may have life; to fill up their sins at all times. Wrath comes on them to the uttermost. 17 But we, my brethren, have been bereaved of you for a short time, (in visible presence, not in our hearts,) and have all the more exerted ourselves, to see your faces, with great affection. 18 And we purposed to come to you, I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered me. 19 For what is our hope, and our joy, and the crown of our glory; unless it’s you, before our Master Yeshua at his coming? 20 For you are our glory, and our joy.

1st Thessalonians 3: And, because we could no longer endure it, we were willing to be left alone at Athens, 2 and to send to you Timothy our brother, a servant of Yehovah, and our assistant in the announcement of the Messiah; that he might strengthen you, and inquire of you regarding your faith: 3 for fear that any of you should be disheartened by these afflictions; for you know, that we are appointed for. 4 For also when we were with you, we forewarned you, that we were to be afflicted; as you know occurred. 5 So I couldn’t be quiet, until I sent to learn your faith; for fear that the Tempter should have tempted you, and our labor have been in vain. 6 But now, since Timothy has come to us from among you, and has informed us regarding your faith and your love, and that you have a good remembrance of us at all times, and that you desire to see us, even as we to see you; 7 So we are comforted in you, my brethren, amid all our straits and afflictions, on account of your faith. 8 And now, we live, if you stand fast in our Master. 9 For what thanks can we render to Yehovah in your behalf, for all the joy with which we are joyful on your account; 10 unless it is, that we supplicate more before Yehovah, night and day, that we may see your faces, and may perfect what is lacking in your faith? 11 And may Yehovah our Father, and our Master Yeshua the Messiah, direct our way to you; 12 and increase and enlarge your love towards one another, and towards all men, even as we love you; 13 and establish your minds without blame in holiness, before Yehovah our Father; at the arrival of our Master Yeshua the Messiah, with all his Saints.

1st Thessalonians 4: So my brethren, I entreat you, and implore you by our Master Yeshua, that, as you have received from us how you should walk, and to please Yehovah, so you would make progress more and more. 2 For you know the command we gave you in our Master Yeshua the Messiah. 3 For this is the pleasure of Yehovah, your sanctification; and that you be separated from all prostitution; 4 and that each one of you might know how to possess his vessel, in sanctity and in honor; 5 and not in the concupiscence of lust, like the rest of the nations who dont know Yehovah: 6 and that you dare not transgress and overreach anyone his brother, in this matter; because our Master is the avenger of all these, as also we have said and testified to you in time past. 7 For Yehovah didn’t call you into impurity, but to sanctification. 8 He therefore who spurns, spurns not man but Yehovah, who has given his Holy Spirit in you. 9 Now concerning love to the brethren, you dont need for me to write to you; for you yourselves are taught of Yehovah to love one another. 10 You likewise do so, to all the brethren who is in all Macedonia: but I entreat you, my brethren, to be exuberant: 11 and that you strive to be quiet, and to attend to your own affairs; and that you labor with your own hands; as we directed you; 12 and that you walk becomingly towards those [outside]; and that you be dependent on no man. 13 And, I wish you to know, my brethren, that you should not mourn over them who have fallen asleep, like other people who have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Yeshua died and rose again, even so those who sleep, Yehovah will, by Yeshua, bring with him. 15 And this we say to you, by the word of our Master, that we who may survive and be alive, at the coming of our Master, will not precede them who have slept. 16 Because our Master will himself descend from heaven, with the mandate, and with the voice of the chief angel, and with the trumpet of Yehovah; and the dead who is in the Messiah, will first arise; 17 and then, we who survive and are alive will be caught up together with them to the clouds, to meet our Master in the air; and so will we be ever with our Master. 18 Wherefore, comfort you one another with these words.

1st Thessalonians 5: But concerning the times and seasons, my brethren, you dont need that I write to you: 2 for you know assuredly, that the day of our Master comes, as a thief by night. 3 While they will be saying, Peace and quietness, then suddenly destruction will burst upon them, as distress upon a child-bearer, and they won’t escape. 4 But you, my brethren, aren’t in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. 5 For you are all children of the light, and children of the day; and aren’t children of the night, and children of darkness. 6 So let’s not sleep, as others; but let’s be vigilant and considerate. 7 For they who sleep, sleep in the night; and they who is drunken, are drunken in the night. 8 But let us who is children of the day, be wakeful in mind, and put on the breastplate of faith and love, and take the helmet of the hope of life. 9 For Yehovah has not appointed us to wrath, but to the acquisition of life, by our Master Yeshua the Messiah: 10 who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we might live together with him. 11 Therefore comfort one another, and edify one another, as also you have done. 12 And we entreat you, brethren, that you recognize those who are your moderators* [1], who stand before you in our Master, and instruct you: 13 that they may be esteemed by you with abundant love; and, on account of their work, live you in harmony with them. 14 And we entreat you, my brethren, that you admonish the faulty, and encourage the faint-hearted, and bear the burdens of the weak, and be long suffering towards all men. 15 And beware, for fear that any of you return evil for evil, but always follow good deeds, towards one another, and towards all men. 16 And be joyful always. 17 And pray without ceasing. 18 And in everything be thankful: For this is the pleasure of Yehovah in Yeshua the Messiah, concerning you. 19 Quench not the Spirit. 20 Despise not prophesying. 21 Explore every thing, and hold fast the good: 22 and fly from everything evil. 23 And may the Yehovah of peace sanctify you all, perfectly, and keep blameless your whole spirit, and your soul, and your body, till the coming of our Master Yeshua the Messiah. 24 Faithful is he who has called you, who will do it. 25 My brethren, pray for us. 26 Salute all our brethren with a holy kiss. 27 I conjure you by our Master, that this letter be read to all the holy brethren. 28 The *merciful kindness* of our Master Yeshua the Messiah be with you. Amen.

[1] Strong’s 4291, a compound Greek word that literally means: “before” & “to cause or make to stand” ie “in the presence of others, in the midst, before judges, before members of the Sanhedrin” —OBGL.

End of the FIRST Letter to Thessalonians, written from Athens, and sent by Timothy.

2nd Thessalonians

Paul’s Second Letter to Thessalonians

2nd Thessalonians 1: PAUL and Sylvanus and Timothy, to the Assembly of Thessalonians that is in Yehovah our Father and our Master Yeshua the Messiah: 2 *merciful kindness* be with you, and peace, from Yehovah our Father, and from our Master Yeshua the Messiah. 3 We are bound to give thanks to Yehovah always, on your account, my brethren, as is proper; because your faith grows exceedingly, and, in you all, the love of each for his fellow increases. 4 So that we also boast of you in the assemblies of Yehovah, on account of your faith, and your patience in all the persecution and trials that you endure; 5 for a demonstration of the righteous judgment of Yehovah; that you may be worthy of His Kingdom, on account of which you suffer. 6 And since it is a righteous thing with Yehovah, to compensate trouble to them who trouble you: 7 and you who is troubled, he will endow with life, with us, at the manifestation of our Master Yeshua the Messiah from heaven, with the host of His holy Messengers; 8 when he will execute vengeance, with the burning of fire, on them who dont know Yehovah, and on them who dont acknowledge the *Good News* of our Master Yeshua the Messiah. 9 For these will be compensated with the judgment of eternal destruction, from the presence of our Master, and from the praise of his power; 10 when he will come to be praised in his Saints, and to display his wonders in his faithful ones; for our testimony concerning you, will be believed, in that day. 11 Therefore we pray for you, at all times; that Yehovah would make you worthy of your calling, and would fill you with all readiness for good deeds, and with the works of faith by power; 12 so that the name of our Master Yeshua the Messiah, may be praised in you, (and) you also in him; according to the *merciful kindness* of Yehovah, and of our Master Yeshua the Messiah.

2nd Thessalonians 2: But we entreat of you, my brethren, in regard to the coming of our Master Yeshua the Messiah, and in respect to our being congregated to him, 2 that you aren’t soon agitated in mind, nor troubled, neither by word, nor by spirit, nor by letter, as [if] coming from us, [as if] the day of our Master is at hand. 3 Let no one deceive you in anyway; because that day won’t come, unless there previously come a defection, and that man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition; 4 who opposes, and exalts himself above all that is called Yehovah and Worshipful; so that he also sits in the temple of Yehovah, as a Yehovah, and displays himself, as if he were Yehovah. 5 Do you not remember, that, when I was with you, I told you these things? 6 And now, you know what hinders his being manifested in his time. 7 For the mysterious *Torah* breaker* [458] is already at work; he presently hinders us and will continue until he is finished and out of our way; 8 then at length the Wicked One is revealed; who our Master Yeshua will consume by the breath of his mouth, and will bring to nothing by the visibility of his advent. 9 For the coming of that evil One, is the working of Satan, with all power, and signs, and lying wonders, 10 and with all the deceptions of Torah*-lessness, in those who perish; because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, by which they might have life. 11 Therefore Yehovah will send upon them the operation of deception, that they may believe a lie; 12 and that they all may be condemned, who dont believe the truth, but have pleasure in Torah*-lessness. 13 But we are bound to give thanks to Yehovah always, on your account, my brethren beloved of our Master, that Yehovah has from the beginning chosen you to life, thru sanctification of the Spirit, and thru faith in the truth. 14 For to these it was, that Yehovah called you by our preaching; that you might be the praise to our Master Yeshua the Messiah. 15 So, my brethren, be established, and persevere in the precepts which you have been taught, whether by word or by our epistle. 16 And may our Master Yeshua the Messiah himself, and Yehovah our Father, who has loved us, and given us everlasting consolation and a good hope thru his *merciful kindness*, 17 comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word, and in every good work.

2nd Thessalonians 3: From now on, brethren, pray you for us, that the word of our Master may, in every place, run and be praised, as with you; 2 and that we may be delivered from evil and perverse men; for faith is not in all. 3 And faithful is the Lord, who will keep you and rescue you from the evil One. 4 And we have confidence in you, thru our Master, that what we have inculcated on you, you both have done, and will do. 5 And may our Master direct your minds to the love of Yehovah, and to a patient waiting for the Messiah. 6 And we enjoin upon you, my brethren, in the name of our Master Yeshua the Messiah, that you withdraw from every brother who walks wickedly, and not according to the precepts which you received from us. 7 For you know how you should imitate us, who didn’t walk wickedly among you. 8 Nor did we eat bread gratuitously from any of you; but, with toil and weariness, we labored by night and by day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you. 9 It was not because we have no authority, but that we might give you an example in ourselves, that you might imitate us. 10 And while we were with you, we also gave you this precept, That every one who would not work, should likewise not eat. 11 For we hear, there are some among you who walk wickedly, and do nothing except vain things. 12 Now such persons, we command and exhort, by our Master Yeshua the Messiah, that in quietness they work, and eat their own bread. 13 And my brethren, let it not be wearisome to you, to do what is good. 14 And if anyone doesn’t acknowledge these my words in this letter, separate that man from yourselves, and have no intimacy with him, that he may be ashamed. 15 Yet, dont treat him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother. 16 And may the Lord of peace give you peace, always, in every thing. Our Lord be with you all. 17 The salutation in the writing of my own hand, I Paul have written it; which is the token in all my letters, so I write. 18 The *merciful kindness* of Yeshua the Messiah be with you all, my brethren. Amen.

End of the Second letter to Thessalonians that was written from Laodicea of Pisidia, and sent by Tychicus.

* An asterisk indicates that a word* or *the wording* differs significantly from the Murdock Translation. 2008 Edition