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Today's Bible Reading :: 1 Thessalonians 1 - 5 (KJV)

1 Thessalonians 1Listen to the passage

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1 Thessalonians 1

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 1:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 1:1 - Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 1:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 1:2 - We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 1:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 1:3 - Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 1:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 1:4 - Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 1:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 1:5 - For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 1:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 1:6 - And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 1:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 1:7 - So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 1:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 1:8 - For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 1:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 1:9 - For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 1:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 1:10 - And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.

1 Thessalonians 2

Paul's Ministry

(cf. Act 17:1–9 )

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 2:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 2:1 - For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 2:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 2:2 - But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 2:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 2:3 - For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 2:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 2:4 - But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 2:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 2:5 - For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 2:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 2:6 - Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 2:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 2:7 - But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 2:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 2:8 - So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 2:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 2:9 - For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 2:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 2:10 - Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 2:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 2:11 - As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 2:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 2:12 - That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 2:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 2:13 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 2:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 2:14 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 2:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 2:15 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 2:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 2:16 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 2:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 2:17 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 2:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 2:18 - Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 2:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 2:19 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 2:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 2:20 - For ye are our glory and joy.

1 Thessalonians 3

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 3:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 3:1 - Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 3:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 3:2 - And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 3:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 3:3 - That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 3:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 3:4 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 3:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 3:5 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 3:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 3:6 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 3:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 3:7 - Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 3:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 3:8 - For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 3:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 3:9 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 3:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 3:10 - Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 3:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 3:11 - Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 3:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 3:12 - And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 3:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 3:13 - To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.

1 Thessalonians 4

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 4:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 4:1 - Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 4:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 4:2 - For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 4:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 4:3 - For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 4:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 4:4 - That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 4:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 4:5 - Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 4:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 4:6 - That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 4:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 4:7 - For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 4:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 4:8 - He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 4:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 4:9 - But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 4:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 4:10 - And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 4:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 4:11 - And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 4:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 4:12 - That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.

Those Who Died in Christ

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 4:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 4:13 - But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 4:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 4:14 - For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 4:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 4:15 - For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 4:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 4:16 - For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 4:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 4:17 - Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 4:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 4:18 - Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

1 Thessalonians 5

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 5:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 5:1 - But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 5:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 5:2 - For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 5:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 5:3 - For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 5:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 5:4 - But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 5:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 5:5 - Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 5:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 5:6 - Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 5:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 5:7 - For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 5:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 5:8 - But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 5:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 5:9 - For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 5:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 5:10 - Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 5:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 5:11 - Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

Christian Conduct

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 5:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 5:12 - And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 5:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 5:13 - And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 5:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 5:14 - Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 5:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 5:15 - See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 5:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 5:16 - Rejoice evermore.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 5:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 5:17 - Pray without ceasing.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 5:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 5:18 - In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 5:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 5:19 - Quench not the Spirit.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 5:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 5:20 - Despise not prophesyings.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 5:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 5:21 - Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 5:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 5:22 - Abstain from all appearance of evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 5:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 5:23 - And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 5:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 5:24 - Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 5:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 5:25 - Brethren, pray for us.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 5:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 5:26 - Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 5:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 5:27 - I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 5:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 5:28 - The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. [fn][[[The first epistle to the Thessalonians was written from Athens.]]]
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[[[The first epistle to the Thessalonians was written from Athens.]]]  
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