KJ3 Literal Translation
1 Thessalonians 5
1 He proceeds in the former description of Christ’s coming to judgment, 16 and gives diverse precepts, 23 and so concludes the epistle.
1But about the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need for it to be written.
2For you yourselves know accurately that the day of the Lord, as a thief in the night, so it comes.
3For when they say, Peace and safety! Then sudden destruction comes upon them, like the birth-pain to the one having babe in womb, and they shall not escape, not one.
4But you, brothers, are not in darkness, that the Day should overtake you as a thief.
5You are all sons of light and sons of day; we are not of night, nor of darkness.
6So then, we should not sleep, as the rest also do, but we should be awake and be sober.
7For the ones sleeping sleep by night, and the ones being drunk are drunk by night.
8But we being of day should be sober, “having put on the breastplate” of faith and love, and the hope of “salvation as a helmet;” Isa. 59:17
9because God has not appointed us to wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
10The One dying on our behalf, so that whether we are awake or we are sleeping, we may live together with Him.
11Therefore, encourage one another, and build up one another, as you indeed do.
12But, brothers, we entreat you to know the ones laboring among you, and taking the lead of you in the Lord, and exhorting you,
13even esteem them most exceedingly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.
14And we exhort you, brothers, to admonish the disobedient ones, comfort the ones being faint-hearted, sustain the ones being weak, be long-suffering towards all.
15See that not any one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue the good, both towards one another and towards all.
16Rejoice always.
17Pray without ceasing.
18In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.
19Do not quench the Spirit.
20Do not despise prophecies.
21Test all things, hold fast the good.
22Keep back from every form of evil.
23And may the God of peace Himself fully sanctify you, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
24Faithful is the One calling you, who also will perform it.
25Brothers, pray concerning us.
26Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss.
27I charge you by the Lord that this letter be read to all the holy brothers.
28The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
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