| Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. | Always rejoice. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you. |
| Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, as indeed you are doing. | Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do. |
| But test everything; hold fast to what is good; abstain from every form of evil. | Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good. Abstain from every form of evil. |
| The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do this. | He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it. |
| See that none of you repays evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to all. | See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good for one another and for all. |
| For the Lord himself, with a cry of command, with the archangel's call and with the sound of God's trumpet, will descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up in the clouds together with them to meet the Lord in the air; and so we will be with the Lord forever. | For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first, then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever. |
| For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have died. | For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus. |
| So then let us not fall asleep as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober. | So then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober. |
| And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we abound in love for you. | May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all men, even as we also do toward you. |
| For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from fornication; that each one of you know how to control your own body in holiness and honor, not with lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God. | For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, that each one of you know how to control his own body in sanctification and honor, not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God. |
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