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7 But we were gentle among you, euen as a nource
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cherisheth her children. Thus being affectioned
THE FIRST EPISTLE OF PAUL toward you, our good will was to haue dealt
THE APOSTLE TO THE vnto you, not the Gospel of God onely, but also
THESSALONIANS our owne soules, because ye were deare vnto

vs. 9 For ye remember, brethren, our labour
1 Pavl, and Siluanus, and Timotheus, vnto the and trauaile: for we laboured day and night,
Church of the Thessalonians, which is in God the
Father, and in the Lord Iesus Christ: Grace be because we would not be chargeable vnto any of
with you, and peace from God our Father, and you, and preached vnto you the Gospel of God.
from the Lord Iesus Christ. We giue God thankes 10 Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily, and
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alwayes for you all, making mention of you in iustly, and vnblameably we behaued our selues
our prayers Without ceasing, remembring your among you that beleeue. 11 As ye knowe how that
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effectuall faith, and diligent loue, and the pa- we exhorted you, and comforted, and besought
tienceofyourhopeinourLordIesusChrist, inthe euery one of you (as a father his children) 12 That
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sight of God euen our Father, Knowing, beloued ye would walke worthy of God, who hath called
brethren, that ye are elect of God. 5 For our you vnto his kingdome and glorie. 13 For this
Gospell was not vnto you in worde only, but also cause also thanke we God without ceasing, that
in power, and in the holy Ghost, and in much when ye receiued the worde of God, which ye
assurance, as ye know after what maner we were heard of vs, ye receiued it not as the worde of
among you for your sakes. 6 And ye became men, but as it is in deede the worde of God,
followers of vs, and of the Lord, and receiued the which also worketh in you that beleeue. 14 For
worde in much affliction, with ioy of the holy brethren, ye are become folowers of the Churches
Ghost, So that ye were as ensamples to all that of God, which in Iudea are in Christ Iesus, because
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beleeue in Macedonia and in Achaia. 8 For from ye haue also suffred the same things of your
you sounded out the worde of the Lord, not in owne countrey men, euen as they haue of the
Macedonia and in Achaia only: but your faith Iewes, 15 Who both killed the Lord Iesus and their
also which is toward God, spred abroad in all owne Prophets, and haue persecuted vs away,
quarters, that we neede not to speake any thing. and God they please not, and are contrary to all
9 For they themselues shew of vs what maner of men, 16 And forbid vs to preach vnto the Gentiles,
entring in we had vnto you, and how ye turned that they might be saued, to fulfill their sinnes
to God from idoles, to serue the liuing and true alwayes: for the wrath of God is come on them, to
God, 10 And to looke for his sonne from heauen, the vtmost. 17 For asmuch, brethren, as we were
whome he raised from the dead, euen Iesus which kept from you for a season, concerning sight, but
deliuereth vs from that wrath to come. notintheheart, weenforcedthemoretoseeyour
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2 face with great desire. Therefore we would
haue come vnto you (I Paul, at least once or twise)
1 For ye your selues knowe, brethren, that our but Satan hindered vs. 19 For what is our hope or
entrance in vnto you was not in vaine, 2 But ioye, or crowne of reioycing? are not euen you
euen after that we had suffered before, and were it in the presence of our Lord Iesus Christ at his
shamefully entreated at Philippi, (as ye knowe) comming? 20 Yea, ye are our glory and ioy.
we were bolde in our God, to speake vnto you
the Gospell of God with much striuing. 3 For 3
our exhortation was not by deceite, nor by vn- 1 Wherefore since we could no longer forbare,
cleannes, nor by guile. But as we were allowed wee thought it good to remaine at Athens alone,
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of God, that the Gospel should be committed 2 And haue sent Timotheus our brother and min-
vnto vs, so we speake, not as they that please ister of God, and our labour felow in the Gospel of
men, but God, which approoueth our hearts. Christ, to stablish you, and to comfort you touch-
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5 Neither yet did we euer vse flattering wordes, ing your faith, That no man should be moued
as ye knowe, nor coloured couetousnes, God is with these afflictions: for ye your selues knowe,
recorde. 6 Neither sought we prayse of men, that we are appointed thereunto. 4 For verily
neither of you, nor of others, when we might when we were with you, we told you before that
haue bene chargeable, as the Apostles of Christ. we should suffer tribulations, euen as it came to