THE Entire 1st Epistle of Paul to the
Thessalonians
based on The King James Bible of 1611.
Edited & Formatted to be read with the reading of:
Paul's Epistle to theThessalonians
If you are reading along from your own King James Bible,
please note, there may be some minor word variations,
depending on which edition of the King James Bible
you are using.
Paul's 1st Epistle to the Thessalonians
Ch.1 1st Thes.
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.
1:2 We give thanks to God always for
you all,
making mention of you in our
prayers;
1:3 remembering without ceasing,
your work of faith and labor of love, and
patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ,
in the sight of God, and our Father;
1:4 knowing, brethren beloved,
your election of God.
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.
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.
1:7 So that ye were ensamples to all that
believe in Macedonia, and Achaia.
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.
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;
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.
Ch. 2 1st Thes.
2:1 For yourselves brethren,
know our entrance in unto you,
that it was not in vain:
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.
2:3 For our exhortation was not of
deceit, nor of uncleanness,
nor in guile:
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.
2:5 For neither at any time used we
flattering words, as ye know,
nor a cloak of covetousness;
God is witness:
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.
2:7 But we were gentle among you,
even as a nurse cherisheth her
children:
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.
2:9 For ye remember brethren,
our labor and travail:
For laboring night and day,
because we would not be
chargeable unto any of you,
we preached unto you the
gospel of God.
2:10 Ye are witnesses, and God also,
how holily, and justly,
and un-blamably we
behaved ourselves among you that
believe:
2:11 As ye know how we exhorted,
and comforted,
and charged every one of you,
as a father doth his children,
2:12 that ye would walk worthy of
God, who hath called you unto
his kingdom and glory.
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.
2:14 For ye, brethren,
became followers of the
churches of God, which in Judea,
are in Christ Jesus:
For ye also have suffered like things
of your own countrymen,
even as they have of the Jews:
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:
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.
2:17 But we brethren,
being taken from you for a
short time in presence, not in heart,
endeavored the more abundantly to
see your face with great desire.
2:18 Wherefore we would have
come unto you,
even I Paul, once and again;
but Satan hindered us.
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?
2:20 For ye are our glory and joy.
Ch. 3 1st Thes.
3:1 Wherefore,
when we could no longer
forbear,
we thought it good to be
left at Athens alone;
3:2 and sent
Timotheus our brother,
and minister of God,
and our fellow laborer in the
gospel of Christ, to establish you,
and to comfort you concerning
your faith:
3:3 that no man should be
moved by these afflictions:
For yourselves know that we are
appointed thereunto.
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;
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 labor be in vain.
3:6 But now,
when Timotheus came from
you unto us,
and brought us good
tidings of your faith, and
*love*charity*, and that ye have
good remembrance of us, always,
desiring greatly to see us,
as we also to see you:
3:7 therefore brethren, we were
comforted over you in all our
affliction and distress, by your faith:
3:8 For now we live,
if ye stand fast, in the Lord.
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;
3:10 night and day,
praying exceedingly that we might
see your face, and
might perfect that which is
lacking in your faith?
3:11 Now God himself,
and our Father,
and our Lord Jesus Christ,
direct our way unto you.
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:
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.
*Ch.3;vs.6 love, not charity
(Agape, Godly Love)
Ch. 4 1st Thes.
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.
4:2 For ye know what commandments
we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
4:3 For this is the will of God,
even your sanctification,
that ye should abstain from
fornication:
4:4 That every one of you should
know how to possess his vessel in
sanctification, and honor;
4:5 Not in the lust of concupiscence,
even as the Gentiles which
know not God:
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.
4:7 For God hath not called us unto
uncleanness, but unto holiness.
4:8 He therefore that despiseth,
despiseth not man, but God,
who hath also given unto us,
his holy Spirit.
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.
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;
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;
4:12 that ye may walk
honestly toward them that are without,
and that ye may have lack of nothing.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
4:18 Wherefore,
comfort one another with
these words.
*Ch4; vs.15; precede
Ch. 5 1st Thes.
5:1 But of the times and the
seasons brethren,
ye have no need that I
write unto you.
5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that
the day of the Lord so cometh, as a
thief in the night.
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.
5:4 But ye brethren, are not in
darkness, that that day should
overtake you as a thief.
5:5 Ye are all the children of light,
and the children of the day:
We are not of the night,
nor of darkness.
5:6 Therefore,
let us not sleep as do others;
but let us watch, and be sober.
5:7 For they that sleep,
sleep in the night;
and they that be drunken,
are drunken in the night.
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.
5:9 For God hath not appointed
us to wrath,
but to obtain salvation by
our Lord Jesus Christ,
5:10 Who died for us, that,
whether we wake or sleep,
we should live together,
with him.
5:11 Wherefore,
comfort yourselves together,
and edify one another,
even as also ye do.
5:12 And we beseech you brethren,
to know them which
labor among you,
and are over you in the Lord,
and admonish you;
5:13 and to esteem them very
highly in love for their work's sake.
And be at peace among yourselves.
5:14 Now we exhort you brethren,
warn them that are unruly,
comfort the feeble minded,
support the weak,
be patient toward all men.
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.
5:16 Rejoice evermore.
5:17 Pray without ceasing.
5:18 In every thing, give thanks:
For this is the will of God in
Christ Jesus, concerning you.
5:19 Quench not the Spirit.
5:20 Despise not prophesyings.
5:21 Prove all things;
hold fast that which is good.
5:22 Abstain from all appearance
of evil.
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.
5:24 Faithful is he that calleth you,
who also will do it.
5:25 Brethren, pray for us.
5:26 Greet all the brethren with
an holy kiss.
5:27 I charge you by the Lord,
that this epistle be read unto all the
holy brethren.
5:28 The grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ be with you.
Amen.
THE Entire 2nd Epistle of Paul to the
Thessalonians
based on The King James Bible of 1611.
Edited & Formatted to be read with the reading of:
Paul's 2nd Epistle to theThessalonians
If you are reading along from your own King James Bible,
please note, there may be some minor word variations,
depending on which edition of the King James Bible
you are using.
Paul's 2nd Epistle to the Thessalonians
Ch. 1 2nd Thes.
1:1 Paul, and Silvanus, and
Timotheus, unto the church of the
Thessalonians, in God our Father,
and the Lord Jesus Christ:
1:2 Grace unto you, and peace,
from God our Father and the
Lord Jesus Christ.
1:3 We are bound to thank God
always for you brethren,
as it is meet, because that your
faith groweth exceedingly,
and the *love*charity* of
every one of you all,
toward each other, aboundeth;
1:4 so that we ourselves glory in you,
in the churches of God for your
patience and faith,
in all your persecutions and
tribulations that ye endure:
1:5 Which is a manifest token of the
righteous judgment of God,
that ye may be counted worthy of
the kingdom of God,
for which ye also suffer:
1:6 seeing it is a righteous thing with God,
to recompense tribulation to them that
trouble you;
1:7 and to you who are troubled,
rest with us, when the
Lord Jesus shall be
revealed from heaven with his
mighty angels,
1:8 in flaming fire,
taking vengeance on
them that know not God,
and that obey not the gospel of our
Lord Jesus Christ:
1:9 who shall be punished with
everlasting destruction,
from the presence of the Lord,
and from the glory of his power;
1:10 when he shall come to be
glorified in his saints,
and to be admired in all them
that believe,
(because our testimony,
among you, was believed)
in that day.
1:11 Wherefore,
also we pray always for you,
that our God would count you
worthy of this calling,
and fulfill all the good pleasure of
his goodness, and the work of
faith with power:
1:12 That the name of our Lord,
Jesus Christ may be
glorified in you, and ye in him,
according to the grace of our God,
and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Ch.1; vs:3 *love* not charity*
Agape, Godly love
Ch. 2 2nd Thes.
2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren,
by the coming of our
Lord Jesus Christ, and by
our gathering together unto him,
2:2 that ye be not soon shaken in
mind, or be troubled,
neither by spirit, nor by word,
nor by letter as from us,
as that the day of Christ is at hand.
2:3 Let no man deceive you by
any means:
For that day shall not come,
except there come, a falling away first,
and that man of sin be revealed,
the son of perdition;
2:4 who opposeth, and
exalteth himself above all that is
called God,
or that is worshipped;
so that he as God,
sitteth in the temple of God,
shewing himself that he, is God.
2:5 Remember ye not, that,
when I was yet with you, I
told you these things?
2:6 And now ye know what withholdeth,
that he might be revealed in his time.
2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth
already work:
Only he, who now letteth will let,
until he be taken, out of the way.
2:8 And then shall that Wicked be
revealed, whom the Lord shall
consume with the spirit of his mouth,
and shall destroy with the
brightness of his coming:
2:9 Even him,
whose coming is after the
working of Satan, with all power,
and signs and lying wonders,
2:10 and with all deceivableness of
unrighteousness,
in them that perish;
because they received not the
love of the truth,
that they might be saved.
2:11 And for this cause,
God shall send them strong delusion,
that they should believe a lie:
2:12 That they all might be damned
who believed not the truth,
but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
2:13 But we are bound to
give thanks alway to God,
for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord,
because God hath, from the beginning,
chosen you to salvation ,
through sanctification of the Spirit,
and belief of the truth:
2:14 Whereunto he called you by
our gospel,
to the obtaining of the
glory of our Lord, Jesus Christ.
2:15 Therefore, brethren,
stand fast, and hold the
traditions which ye
have been taught,
whether by word, or our epistle.
2:16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself,
and God, even our Father,
which hath loved us,
and hath given us everlasting
consolation and good hope,
through grace,
2:17 comfort your hearts, and
stablish you in every good
word and work.
Ch. 3 2nd Thes.
3:1 Finally brethren, pray for us,
that the word of the
Lord may have free course,
and be glorified,
even as it is with you:
3:2 and that we may be delivered from
unreasonable and wicked men:
For all men have not faith.
3:3 But the Lord is faithful, who shall
stablish you, and keep you from evil.
3:4 And we have confidence,
in the Lord touching you,
that ye both do, and will do,
the things which we command you.
3:5 And the Lord direct your hearts,
into the love of God, and
into the patient waiting for Christ.
3:6 Now we command you, brethren,
in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
that ye withdraw yourselves from
every brother that walketh disorderly,
and not after the tradition which he
received of us.
3:7 For yourselves know how ye
ought to follow us:
For we behaved not ourselves
disorderly among you;
3:8 neither did we eat any
man's bread for naught;
but wrought with labor,
and travail, night and day,
that we might not be
chargeable to any of you:
3:9 Not because we have not power,
but to make ourselves an ensample
unto you, to follow us.
3:10 For even when we were with you,
this we commanded you, that if any
would not work, neither should he eat.
3:11 For we hear that there are some which
walk among you disorderly,
working not at all, but are busybodies.
3:12 Now them that are such,
we command and exhort by our
Lord Jesus Christ,
that with quietness they work,
and eat their own bread.
3:13 But ye, brethren,
be not weary in well doing.
3:14 And, if any man obey not our
word, by this epistle,
note that man, and
have no company with him,
that he may be ashamed.
3:15 Yet count him not, as an enemy,
but admonish him, as a brother.
3:16 Now the Lord of peace himself
give you peace always, by all means.
The Lord be with you all.
3:17 The salutation of Paul,
with mine own hand, which is the
token in every epistle:
So I write.
3:18 The grace of our
Lord Jesus Christ be
with you all. Amen.