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Thessalonians, 1st","Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches","Category: Religion/Spirituality"],"text":"This eBook was produced by David Widger\nfrom etext #1581 prepared by Dennis McCarthy, Atlanta, Georgia\nand Tad Book, student, Pontifical North American College, Rome.\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE HOLY BIBLE\n\n\n\n\nTranslated from the Latin Vulgate\n\n\nDiligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,\nand Other Editions in Divers Languages\n\n\nTHE OLD TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Douay\nA.D. 1609 & 1610\n\nand\n\nTHE NEW TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Rheims\nA.D. 1582\n\n\nWith Annotations\n\n\nThe Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with\nthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner\nA.D. 1749-1752\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE THESSALONIANS\n\nThessalonica was the capital of Macedonia, in which St. Paul, having\npreached the Gospel, converted some Jews and a great number of the\nGentiles: but the unbelieving Jews, envying his success, raised such a\ncommotion against him that he, and his companion, Sylvanus were obliged\nto quit the city. Afterwards he went to Athens, where he heard that the\nconverts in Thessalonica were under a severe persecution, ever since his\ndeparture; and lest they should lose their fortitude, he sent Timothy to\nstrengthen and comfort them in their sufferings. In the meantime St.\nPaul came to Corinth, where he wrote this first Epistle, and also the\nsecond to the Thessalonians, both in the same year, being the nineteenth\nafter our Lord's Ascension. These are the first of his Epistles in the\norder of time.\n\n\n1 Thessalonians Chapter 1\n\nHe gives thanks for the grace bestowed on the Thessalonians.\n\n1:1. Paul and Sylvanus and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians:\nin God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ.\n\n1:2. Grace be to you and peace. We give thanks to God always for you\nall: making a remembrance of you in our prayers without ceasing,\n\n1:3. Being mindful of the work of your faith and labour and charity: and\nof the enduring of the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before God and our\nFather.\n\n1:4. Knowing, brethren, beloved of God, your election:\n\n1:5. For our gospel hath not been unto you in word only, but in power\nalso: and in the Holy Ghost and in much fulness, as you know what manner\nof men we have been among you for your sakes.\n\n1:6. And you became followers of us and of the Lord: receiving the word\nin much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Ghost:\n\n1:7. So that you were made a pattern to all that believe in Macedonia\nand in Achaia.\n\n1:8. For from you was spread abroad the word of the Lord not only in\nMacedonia and in Achaia but also in every place: your faith which is\ntowards God, is gone forth, so that we need not to speak any thing.\n\n1:9. For they themselves relate of us, what manner of entering in we had\nunto you: and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and\ntrue God.\n\n1:10. And to wait for his Son from heaven (whom he raised up from the\ndead), Jesus, who hath delivered us from the wrath to come.\n\n1 Thessalonians Chapter 2\n\nThe sincerity of the apostle's preaching the gospel to them and of their\nreceiving it.\n\n2:1. For yourselves know, brethren, our entrance in unto you, that it\nwas not in vain:\n\n2:2. But having suffered many things before and been shamefully treated,\n(as you know) at Philippi, we had confidence in our God, to speak unto\nyou the gospel of God in much carefulness.\n\n2:3. For our exhortation was not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in\ndeceit.\n\n2:4. But as we were approved by God that the gospel should be committed\nto us: even so we speak, not as pleasing men but God, who proveth our\nhearts.\n\n2:5. For neither have we used at any time the speech of flattery, as you\nknow: nor taken an occasion of covetousness (God is witness):\n\n2:6. Nor sought we glory of men, neither of you, nor of others.\n\n2:7. Whereas we might have been burdensome to you, as the apostles of\nChrist: but we became little ones in the midst of you, as if a nurse\nshould cherish her children:\n\n2:8. So desirous of you, we would gladly impart unto you not only the\ngospel of God but also our own souls: because you were become most dear\nunto us.\n\n2:9. For you remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and\nday, lest we should be chargeable to any of you, we preached among you\nthe gospel of God.\n\n2:10. You are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and without\nblame we have been to you that have believed:\n\n2:11. As you know in what manner, entreating and comforting you (as a\nfather doth his children),\n\n2:12. We testified to every one of you that you would walk worthy of\nGod, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.\n\n2:14. For you, brethren, are become followers of the churches of God\nwhich are in Judea, in Christ Jesus: for you also have suffered the same\nthings from your own countrymen, even as they have from the Jews:\n\n2:15. Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and the prophets, and have\npersecuted us, and please not God, and are adversaries to all men;\n\n2:16. Prohibiting us to speak to the Gentiles, that they may be saved,\nto fill up their sins always: for the wrath of God is come upon them to\nthe end.\n\nTo fill up their sins... That is, to fill up the measure of their sins,\nafter which God's justice would punish them. For the wrath of God is\ncome upon them to the end... That is, to continue on them to the end.\n\n2:17. But we, brethren, being taken away from you for a short time, in\nsight, not in heart, have hastened the more abundantly to see your face\nwith great desire.\n\n2:18. For we would have come unto you, I Paul indeed, once and again:\nbut Satan hath hindered us.\n\n2:19. For what is our hope or joy or crown of glory? Are not you, in the\npresence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?\n\n2:20. For you are our glory and joy.\n\n1 Thessalonians Chapter 3\n\nThe apostle's concern and love for the Thessalonians.\n\n3:1. For which cause, forbearing no longer, we thought it good to remain\nat Athens alone.\n\n3:2. And we sent Timothy, our brother and the minister of God in the\ngospel of Christ, to confirm you and exhort you concerning your faith:\n\n3:3. That no man should be moved in these tribulations: for yourselves\nknow that we are appointed thereunto.\n\n3:4. For even when we were with you, we foretold you that we should\nsuffer tribulations: as also it is come to pass, and you know.\n\n3:5. For this cause also, I, forbearing no longer, sent to know your\nfaith: lest perhaps he that tempteth should have tempted you: and our\nlabour should be made vain.\n\n3:6. But now when Timothy came to us from you and related to us your\nfaith and charity, and that you have a good remembrance of us always,\ndesiring to see us as we also to see you:\n\n3:7. Therefore we were comforted, brethren, in you, in all our necessity\nand tribulation, by your faith.\n\n3:8. Because now we live, if you stand in the Lord.\n\n3:9. For what thanks can we return to God for you, in all the joy\nwherewith we rejoice for you before our God,\n\n3:10. Night and day more abundantly praying that we may see your face\nand may accomplish those things that are wanting to your faith?\n\n3:11. Now God himself and our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct\nour way unto you.\n\n3:12. And may the Lord multiply you and make you abound in charity\ntowards one another and towards all men: as we do also towards you,\n\n3:13. To confirm your hearts without blame, in holiness, before God and\nour Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, with all his saints.\nAmen.\n\n1 Thessalonians Chapter 4\n\nHe exhorts them to purity and mutual charity. He treats of the\nresurrection of the dead.\n\n4:1. For the rest therefore, brethren, pray and beseech you in the Lord\nJesus that, as you have received from us, how you ought to walk and to\nplease God, so also you would walk, that you may abound the more.\n\n4:2. For you know what precepts I have given to you by the Lord Jesus.\n\n4:3. For this is the will of God, your sanctification: That you should\nabstain from fornication:\n\n4:4. That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in\nsanctification and honour,\n\n4:5. Not in the passion of lust, like the Gentiles that know not God:\n\n4:6. And that no man overreach nor circumvent his brother in business:\nbecause the Lord is the avenger of all these things, as we have told you\nbefore and have testified.\n\n4:7. For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto\nsanctification.\n\n4:8. Therefore, he that despiseth these things, despiseth not man, but\nGod, who also hath given his holy Spirit in us.\n\n4:9. But as touching the charity of brotherhood, we have no need to\nwrite to you: for yourselves have learned of God to love one another.\n\n4:10. For indeed you do it towards all the brethren in all Macedonia.\nBut we entreat you, brethren, that you abound more:\n\n4:11. And that you use your endeavour to be quiet: and that you do your\nown business and work with your own hands, as we commanded you: and that\nyou walk honestly towards them that are without: and that you want\nnothing of any man's.\n\n4:12. And we will not have you ignorant brethren, concerning them that\nare asleep, that you be not sorrowful, even as others who have no hope.\n\n4:13. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again: even so them who\nhave slept through Jesus, will God bring with him.\n\n4:14. For this we say unto you in the word of the Lord, that we who are\nalive, who remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them\nwho have slept.\n\n4:15. For the Lord himself shall come down from heaven with commandment\nand with the voice of an archangel and with the trumpet of God: and the\ndead who are in Christ shall rise first.\n\n4:16. Then we who are alive, who are left, shall be taken up together\nwith them in the clouds to meet Christ, into the air: and so shall we be\nalways with the Lord.\n\n4:17. Wherefore, comfort ye one another with these words.\n\n1 Thessalonians Chapter 5\n\nThe day of the Lord shall come when least expected. Exhortations to\nseveral duties.\n\n5:1. But of the times and moments, brethren, you need not, that we\nshould write to you:\n\n5:2. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord shall so\ncome as a thief in the night.\n\n5:3. For when they shall say: Peace and security; then shall sudden\ndestruction come upon them, as the pains upon her that is with child,\nand they shall not escape.\n\n5:4. But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day should\novertake you as a thief.\n\n5:5. For all you are the children of light and children of the day: we\nare not of the night nor of darkness.\n\n5:6. Therefore, let us not sleep, as others do: but let us watch, and be\nsober.\n\n5:7. For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that are drunk,\nare drunk in the night.\n\n5:8. But let us, who are of the day, be sober, having on the breast\nplate of faith and charity and, for a helmet, the hope of salvation.\n\n5:9. For God hath not appointed us unto wrath: but unto the purchasing\nof salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,\n\n5:10. Who died for us: that, whether we watch or sleep, we may live\ntogether with him.\n\n5:11. For which cause comfort one another and edify one another, as you\nalso do.\n\n5:12. And we beseech you, brethren, to know them who labour among you\nand are over you in the Lord and admonish you;\n\n5:13. That you esteem them more abundantly in charity, for their work's\nsake. Have peace with them.\n\n5:14. And we beseech you, brethren, rebuke the unquiet: comfort the\nfeeble minded: support the weak: be patient towards all men.\n\nThe unquiet... That is, such as are irregular and disorderly.\n\n5:15. See that none render evil for evil to any man: but ever follow\nthat which is good towards each other and towards all men.\n\n5:16. Always rejoice.\n\n5:17. Pray without ceasing.\n\n5:18. In all things give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ\nJesus concerning you all.\n\n5:19. Extinguish not the spirit.\n\n5:20. Despise not prophecies.\n\n5:21. But prove all things: hold fast that which is good.\n\n5:22. From all appearance of evil refrain yourselves.\n\n5:23. And may the God of peace himself sanctify you in all things: that\nyour whole spirit and soul and body may be preserved blameless in the\ncoming of our Lord Jesus Christ.\n\n5:24. He is faithful who hath called you, who also will do it.\n\n5:25. Brethren, pray for us.\n\n5:26. Salute all the brethren with a holy kiss.\n\n5:27. I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read to all the holy\nbrethren.\n\n5:28. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.","title":"The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 59: 1 Thessalonians: The Challoner Revision","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":2269}