PAUL, and a Silvanus, and Ti-a2 Cor. 1.19. motheus, unto the church of 2 Thess. 1.1. the Thessalonians which is in God the Father, and in the Lord Jesus Christ. b Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Pet. 5. 12. b Eph. 1. 2. Rom. 1. 8. Eph. 1. 16. Philem. 4.

d ch. 2. 13. e John 6. 29.

2 We give thanks to God al-Gal. 5. 6. ch. ways for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;

3d Remembering without ceasing e your work of faith, fand labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;

4 Knowing, brethren || beloved, g your election of God.

5 For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, k and in much assurance; as 1 know what manner of men

ye

3. 6. 2 Thess.

1. 3, 11.

Jan. 2. 17. Rom. 16. 6.

fleb. 6. 10.

Or, beloved of God, your

election. Col. 3. 12. 2 Tuess. 2. 13.

h Mark 16.

20. 1 Cor. 2. 4. & 4. 20.

12 Cor. 6. 6.

we

k Col. 2. 2. Heb. 2. 3.

10, 11.

were among you for your sake. 1 ch. 2. 1, 5, 6 And m ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received 2 Thess. 3. 7. the word in much affliction, n with joy of the Holy Ghost:

7 So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.

in ICor.4.16. & 11.1. Phil.

3. 17. ch. 2.
3.9.
Heb. 10. 34.
Rom. 10.

14. 2 Thess.

In Acts 5. 41.

8 For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also P in every place your faith to God-2 ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.

9 For they themselves shew of us q what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God;

18.

p Rom. 1. 8. Thess. 1.4. q ch. 2. 1. Gal. 4. 8.

r1 Cor. 12.2.

» Rom. 2. 7. Phil. 3. 20.

Tit. 2. 13.
2 Pet. 3. 12.

Rev. 1. 7.

10 And to wait for his Son Acts 1. 11. t from heaven, u whom he raised. 4. 16. from the dead, even Jesus, which Acts 2. 21 delivered us from the wrath tox Matt. 3. 7.

come.

CHAPTER II.

I In what manner the gospel was brought and preached to the Thessalonians, and in what sort also they received it. 18 A reason is rendered both why Saint Paul was so long absent from them, and also why he was so desirous to see them.

54.

g1 Cor. 7.25. Tim. 1. 11,

12.

h1 Cor. 9. 17. Gal. 2. 7. Tit. 1. 3.

Gal. 1. 10.

of deceit, nor of uncleanness, no in guile;'

4 But as g we were allowed of God h to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, k which trieth our hearts.

5 For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know k Prov. 17.3. nor a cloak of covetousness; m God is witness:

Rom. 8. 27.

2

Acts 20. 33.

Cor. 2. 17.

& 4. 2. & 7.

2. & 12. 17. Rom. 1.9.

n John 5. 41,

14. & 12. 43.

1 Tim. 5. 17. o1 Cor.9.4,6, 12, 18. 2 Cor. 10. 1, 2, 10, 11. & 13. 10. 2 Thess. 3.9. Philem. 8, 9. Or, used authority. p 2 Cor. 11.9. & 12. 13, 14.

2 Thess. 3.8. q 1 Cor. 9. 1, 2, 5.

1 Cor. 2. 3.

& 9. 22.

6 Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been bur densome, a as the apostles of Christ. 7 But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:

8 So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also t our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.

9 For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for ulabouring night and day, x because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

10 y Ye are witnesses, and God also, z how holily, and justly, and unblamably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:

11 As ye know how we exhorted, and comforted, and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,

12 a That ye would walk worthy of God, b who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.

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 d not as the word of men, but (as it is in truth) the word of God, b1 Cor. 1. 9. which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

ch. 5. 24.

Rom. 5. 9. ch. 5. 9.

FOR a yourselves, brethren, know a ch. 1. 5, 9.

our entrance in unto you, that

it was not in vain :

d Acts 17. 2.

2 But even after that we had h Acts 16.22. suffered before, and were shame-c ch. 1. 5. fully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, c we were bold in our God d to speak unto you the gospel

of God e with much contention.

3 f For our exhortation was not

Phil. L 30. Col. 2. 1.

2 Cor. 7. 2 1. 16.

d Matt. 10. 40. Gal.4.14.

2 Pet. 3. 2. Je Gal. 1. 22. f Acts 17. 5, 13.

g Heb. 10. 33, 34.

h Acts 2. 23. & 3. 15. &5. 30. & 7. 52.

Matt. 5. 12. & 23. 34, 37. Luke 13. 33,

34. Acts 7.

52.

14 For ye, brethren, became followers e of the churches of God which in Judea are in Christ Jesus: for fye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:

15 h Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, k and are contrary to all men:

16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, m to fill up their sins always: a for the wrath is come upon them to the

uttermost.

Or, glorying. 1 Saint Paul testifieth his great love tot I Cor. 15. the Thessalonians, partly by sending Timothy unto them to strengthen and comfort them: partly by rejoicing in their well doing: 10 and partly by praying for them, and desiring a safe coming unto them.

23. ch. 3. 13. Rev. 1. 7. & 22. 12.

WHEREFORE, a when we a ver. 5. could no longer forbear, b web Acts 17.15. thought it good to be left at Athens alone;

2 And sent & Timotheus, our bro-c Rom. 16. ther, and minister of God, and our 21. 1 Cor. 16. fellow-labourer in the gospel of 10. 2 Cor. 1. Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith:

19.

3d That no man should be mov-d Eph. 3. 13. ed by these afflictions: for yourselves know that e we are appointed thereunto.

4f 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.

eActs9.16. &

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54.

Or,request. Or,beseech. a Phil. 1. 27. Col. 2. 6. b ch. 2. 12.

c Col. 1. 10. d Rom. 12.2. Eph. 5. 17. e Eph. 5. 27. f1 Cor. 6. 15, 18. Eph. 5.3. Col. 3. 5.

Rom. 6.19. I Cor. 6. 15, 18.

h Col. 3. 5. Rom. 1. 24, 26.

i Eph. 4. 17,

18.

k 1 Cor. 15. 34. Gal. 4. 8.

Eph. 2. 12.

& 4. 18. 2 Thess. 1. 8. 1 Lev. 19. 11,

13. Cor.6.8. Or, op

press, or,
overreach.
Or, in the
matter.
m 2 Thess.
1.8.

1 Cor. 4. 9.

f Acts 20.24. g ver. 1.

5 For this cause, g when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, blest by some means h 1 Cor. 7.5. the tempter have tempted you, and 2 Cor. 11. 3. I our labour be in vain.

i Gal. 2. 2.

& 4. 11. Phil. 2. 16.

k Acts 18. 1, 5.

6 But now, when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see 1 Phil. 1. 8.

you:

Heb. 12. 14.

1 Pet. 1. 14, 15.

of the Thessalonians.

quietly to follow their own business: 13 and last of all to sorrow moderately for the dead. 15 And unto this last exhortation is annexed a brief description of the resurrection, and second coming of Christ to judgment.

FURTHERMORE then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, a that as ye have received of us b how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.

2 For ye know what commanaments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

7 Therefore, brethren, m we were m 2 Cor.1.4. comforted over you in all our af- & 7. 6, fliction and distress by your faith:

8 For now we live, if ye n stand n Phil. 4. fast in the Lord.

9 For what thanks can we ren-o ch. 1. 2. der to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;

1.

2 Tim. 1. 3.

10 P Night and day a praying ex-p Acts 26. 7. ceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which a Rom. 1.10,

is lacking in your faith?

11 Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, It direct our way unto you.

12 And the Lord u make you increase and abound in love

to

one

11. & 15. 32. r ch. 2. 17.

s 2 Cor. 13.9, 11. Col. 4.

12.

Or, guide. t Mark 1. 3. u ch. 4. 10.

toward another, and toward all x ch. 4. 9. &

1 John 3. 11, 23. & 4. 21.

t ch. 1. 7.

u ch. 3. 12.

x 2 Thess. 3. 11. 1 Pet. 4.

15.

y Acts 20.35. Eph. 4. 28. 2 Thess. 3. 7, 8, 12.

z Rom. 13. 13. 2 Cor. 8. 21. Col. 4. 5. 1 Pet. 2. 12. Or, of no

man.

a SeeLev 19.

28. Deut. 14.

Phil. 1. 10.

12. 20.

CHAPTER IV.

1 He exhorteth them to go on forward in all manner of godliness, 6 to live holily and justly, 9 to love one another, 11 and

ch. 5. 23.
2 Thess. 2.

17. 1 John
3. 20, 21.
z Zech. 14.5.
Jude 14.

c 1 Cor. 15. 13.

d 1 Cor. 15. 18, 23. ch.

3 For this is d the will of God, even e your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

4 g That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

5 h Not in the lust of concupiscence, i even as the Gentilesk which know not God:

6 That no man go beyond and || defraud his brother | in any matter: because that the Lord m is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.

7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, n but unto holiness.

8 o He therefore that || despiseth, despiseth not man, but God p who hath also given unto us his Holy Spirit.

9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for rye yourselves are taught of God s to love one another.

10 t And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, u that ye increase more and more;

11 And that ye study to be quiet, and x to do your own business, and y to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.

13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, a even as others b which have no hope.

14 For c if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so d them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

15 For this we say unto you e by the word of the Lord, that fwe which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.

16 For g the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with h the trump of God: i and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

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

3. 13. e 1 Kings 13. 17, 18. & 20. 35. f1 Cor. 15. 51. g Matt. 24. 30, 31. Acts 1. 11. 2 Thess. 1. 7. h 1 Cor. 15. 52. il Cor. 15. 23, 52. k1 Cor. 15. 51. 1 Acts 1.9. Rev. 11. 12.

I Timothy is put in mind of the charge
which was given unto him by Paul at
his going to Macedonia. 5 of the right
use and end of the law. 11 Of Saint
Paul's calling to be an apostle, 20 and
of Hymeneus and Alexander.

PAUL, an
apostle of Jesus
Christ a by the commandment
b of God our Saviour, and Lord
Jesus Christ, which is our hope;
2 Unto d Timothy, e my own son
in the faith; Grace, mercy, and
peace, from God our Father and
Jesus Christ our Lord.

3 As 1 besought thee to abide
still at Ephesus, 5 when I went in-
to Macedonia, that thou mightest
charge some h'that they teach no
other doctrine,

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4 i Neither give heed to fables and
endless genealogies, k which minis
ter questions, rather than godly
edifying which is in faith; so do.
5 Now the end of the command-2
ment is charity mout of a pure
heart, and of a good conscience,
and of faith unfeigned:

Gal. 1. 3.
Tim. 1. 2.
Pet. 1. 2.
Acts 20. 1,
3. Phil. 2.
24.

Gal. 1. 6,7.
ch. 6. 3, 10.
ich. 4. 7. &

6. 4, 20.

Tim. 2. 14,

16, 23. Tit.

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65.

Anno phemer, and a persecutor, and in-
jurious: but I obtained mercy,
because a I did it ignorantly in
unbelief:

a Luke 23.34.
John 9. 39,
41. Acts 3.

17, & 26.9%

b Rom. 5.20.
1 Cor. 15. 10.
c 2 Tim. 1.13.

Luke 7.47.

15 e This is a faithful saying,
and worthy of all acceptation, that
le ch. 3. 1. &f Christ Jesus came into the world
4. 9. 2 Tim.
to save sinners; of whom I am
2. 11. Tit. 3.
chief.
8.

f Matt. 9. 13.
Mark 2. 17.
Luke 5. 32.
& 19. 10.

Rom. 5. 8.
1 John 3. 5.
2 Cor. 4. 1.
Acts 13.39.
Ps. 10. 16.

& 145, 13.

Dan. 7. 14.

ch. 6. 15, 16.

14.

6 From which some having 10. Gal. 5.
swerved, have turned aside untom 2 Tim. 2.
a vain jangling;

7 Desiring to be teachers of the
law; understanding neither what
they say, nor whereof they affirm.
8 But we know that p the law is
good, if a man use it lawfully;

22.

Or, not
aiming at.

n ch. 6. 4,
20.

o Ch. 6. 4.
p Rom. 7.12.
q Gal. 3. 19.
& 5. 23.
ch. 6. 3.
Tit. 1. 9. &

2 Tim. 4. 3.

9 Knowing this, that the law is
not made for a righteous man, but
for the lawless and disobedient, for
the ungodly and for sinners, for un-
holy and profane, for murderers of 2. 1.
fathers, and murderers of mothers, s ch. 6. 15.
for manslayers,
t1 Cor. 9.
Ga. 2. 7.

10 For whoremongers, for them
that defile themselves with man-
kind, for men-stealers, for liars, for
perjured persons, and if there be
any other thing that is contrary r to
sound doctrine,

k Rom. 1. 23.

John 1. 18.
Heb. 11. 27,
John 4. 12.

Im Rom. 16.

27. Jude 25.

11.

1 Chr. 29.

o ch. 6. 13,
14, 20.

2 Tim. 2. 2.

p ch. 4. 14.
14 ch. 6. 12.
2 Tim. 2.
& 4. 7.

r ch. 3. 9.

s ch. 6. 9.

t 2 Tim. 2.
17.

u 2 Tim. 2.
14.

16 Howbeit, for this cause gl
obtained mercy, that in me first
Jesus Christ might shew forth all
long-suffering, for a pattern to
them which should hereafter believe
on him to life everlasting.

17 Now unto i the King eternal,
kimmortal, invisible, m the only
wise God, n be honour and glory
Amen.
for ever and ever.

18 This charge I commit unto
thee, son Timothy, P according to
the prophecies which went before
on thee, that thou by them might-
est q war a good warfare;

19 Holding faith and a good
conscience; which some having put
away, concerning faiths have made
shipwreck:

20 Of whom is t Hymeneus and
u Alexander; whom I have x de-
3.livered unto Satan, that they may
learn not to y blaspheme.

CHAPTER II.

1 That it is meet to pray and give thanks
for all men, and the reason why. 9 How
women should be attired. 12 They are
not permitted to teach. 15 They shall be
saved, notwithstanding the testimonies
of God's wrath, in child-birth, if they
continue in faith.

EXHORT therefore, that, first
of all, supplications, prayers, in-
tercessions, and giving of thanks
be made for all men :

2 a For kings, and b for all that
are in authority; that we may
lead a quiet and peaceable life in all
godliness and honesty.

3 For this is good and acceptable
in the sight d of God our Saviour;

4 e Who will have all men to
be saved, fand to come unto the
knowledge of the truth.