Haweis - I Thessalonians - 5

5:1  NOW concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I should write to you:

5:2  for yourselves know precisely that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

5:3  For when they say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction rusheth upon them, as travail on a woman with child, and they shall in no wise escape.

5:4  But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day should overtake you as a thief.

5:5  Ye are all the children of light, and the children of day: we are not the children of night, nor of darkness.

5:6  Let us not then sleep as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

5:7  For they who sleep, sleep in the night, and they who are 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 a helmet the hope of salvation.

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

5:10  who died for us, that whether we sleep, or whether we wake, we may live together with him.

5:11  Wherefore comfort one another, and edify one another, as also ye do.

5:12  Now we entreat you, brethren, to know those who labour among you, and preside over you in the Lord, and admonish you;

5:13  and to account of them very highly in love for their work’s sake. And live in peace among yourselves.

5:14  Now we conjure you, brethren, admonish the unruly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the infirm, be patient with all men.

5:15  See that no man return evil for evil to any man; but always pursue that which is good, both towards one another, and towards 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 to you-wards.

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  Now the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your whole spirit, and soul, and body be preserved faultless 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  Salute all the brethren with an holy kiss.

5:27  I conjure you by the Lord, that this epistle be read to all the holy brethren.

5:28  The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. The first epistle to the Thessalonians was written from Athens. \p