| So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be awake and sober. | Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober. |
| Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing. | Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing. |
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| Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else. | See that no one renders evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good both for yourselves and for all. |
| Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. | Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. |
| But test them all; hold on to what is good, reject every kind of evil. | Test all things; hold fast what is good. Abstain from every form of evil. |
| The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it. | He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it. |
