1 Thessalonians 4:1-8 
(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.  
(2)  For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.  
(3)  For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:  
(4)  That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;  
(5)  Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:  
(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.  
(7)  For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.  
(8)  He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.

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1 Thessalonians 3:12-13 
(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:  
(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.

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1 Thessalonians 3:1-4  Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone;  (2)  And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith:  (3)  That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.  (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.

I Thessalonians 2:13-16

13For 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.

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

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

16Forbidding 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.

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1 Thessalonians 2:1-2 
(1) For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain:  (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.

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