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| 5:1 |
But as to the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need to have anything written to you.
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| 5:2 |
For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
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| 5:3 |
When people say, 'There is peace and security,' then sudden destruction will come upon them as travail comes upon a woman with child, and there will be no escape.
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| 5:4 |
But you are not in darkness, brethren, for that day to surprise you like a thief.
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| 5:5 |
For you are all sons of light and sons of the day;we are not of the night or of darkness.
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| 5:6 |
So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober.
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| 5:7 |
For those who sleep sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night.
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| 5:8 |
But, since we belong to the day, let us be sober, and put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.
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| 5:9 |
For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
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| 5:10 |
who died for us so that whether we wake or sleep we might live with him.
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| 5:11 |
Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.
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| 5:12 |
But we beseech you, brethren, to respect those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you,
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| 5:13 |
and to esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.
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| 5:14 |
And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the idlers, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.
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| 5:15 |
See that none of you repays evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to all.
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| 5:16 |
Rejoice always,
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| 5:17 |
pray constantly,
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| 5:18 |
give thanks in all circumstances;for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
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| 5:19 |
Do not quench the Spirit,
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| 5:20 |
do not despise prophesying,
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| 5:21 |
but test everything;hold fast what is good,
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| 5:22 |
abstain from every form of evil.
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| 5:23 |
May the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly;and may your spirit and soul and body be kept sound and blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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| 5:24 |
He who calls you is faithful, and he will do it.
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| 5:25 |
Brethren, pray for us.
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| 5:26 |
Greet all the brethren with a holy kiss.
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| 5:27 |
I adjure you by the Lord that this letter be read to all the brethren.
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| 5:28 |
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
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