MKJV - I Thessalonians - 5

5:1  But of the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that I write to you.

5:2  For you yourselves know accurately that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.

5:3  For when they shall say, Peace and safety! Then sudden destruction comes on them, as travail upon a woman with child. And they shall not escape.

5:4  But you, brothers, are not in darkness, that the Day should overtake you like a thief.

5:5  You are all the sons of light and the sons of the day. We are not of the night, or of darkness.

5:6  Therefore let us not sleep as the rest do, but let us watch and be calm.

5:7  For those sleeping sleep in the night, and those being drunken are drunken in the night.

5:8  But let us, who are of the day, be calm, having put on the breastplate of faith and love and the hope of salvation for a helmet.

5:9  For God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

5:10  who died for us, so that whether we watch or sleep we should live together with Him.

5:11  Therefore comfort one another, and edify one another, even as you also do.

5:12  And, brothers, we beseech you to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and who admonish you,

5:13  and to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. Be at peace among yourselves.

5:14  Now we exhort you, brothers, warn those who are unruly, comfort the faint-hearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.

5:15  See that none gives evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue the good, both towards one another and towards all.

5:16  Rejoice evermore.

5:17  Pray without ceasing.

5:18  In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

5:19  Do not quench the Spirit.

5:20  Do not despise prophesying.

5:21  Prove all things, hold fast to the good.

5:22  Abstain from every appearance of evil.

5:23  And may the God of peace Himself sanctify you, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

5:24  Faithful is He who called you, who also will do it.

5:25  Brothers, pray for us.

5:26  Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss.

5:27  I charge you by the Lord that this letter be read to all the holy brothers.

5:28  May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.