Rejoice evermore. In every thing give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
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One ABC of Christianity: Always Be Cheerful 1 Thessalonians 5:16
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1 Thessalonians 2:3:
For the appeal we make does not spring from error or impure motives, nor are we trying to trick you.
(NIV)
For our appeal [in preaching] does not [originate] from delusion or error or impure purpose or motive, nor in fraud or deceit.
(AMP)
For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
(KJV)
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1 Thessalonians 5:18:
Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.
(NIV)
Thank [God] in everything [no matter what the circumstances may be, be thankful and give thanks], for this is the will of God for you [who are] in Christ Jesus [the Revealer and Mediator of that will].
(AMP)
In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
(KJV)
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1 Thessalonians 3:4:
In fact, when we were with you, we kept telling you that we would be persecuted. And it turned out that way, as you well know.
(NIV)
For even when we were with you, [you know] we warned you plainly beforehand that we were to be pressed with difficulties and made to suffer affliction, just as to your own knowledge it has [since] happened.
(AMP)
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.
(KJV)
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2 Thessalonians 2:13:
But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because God chose you as firstfruits to be saved through the sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth.
(NIV)
But we, brethren beloved by the Lord, ought and are obligated [as those who are in debt] to give thanks always to God for you, because God chose you from the beginning as His firstfruits (first converts) for salvation through the sanctifying work of the [Holy] Spirit and [your] belief in (adherence to, trust in, and reliance on) the Truth.
(AMP)
But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
(KJV)
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1 Thessalonians 1:6:
You became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you welcomed the message in the midst of severe suffering with the joy given by the Holy Spirit.
(NIV)
And you [set yourselves to] become imitators of us and [through us] of the Lord Himself, for you welcomed our message in [spite of] much persecution, with joy [inspired] by the Holy Spirit
(AMP)
And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost.
(KJV)
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1 Thessalonians 4:16:
For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
(NIV)
For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud cry of summons, with the shout of an archangel, and with the blast of the trumpet of God. And those who have departed this life in Christ will rise first.
(AMP)
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
(KJV)
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2 Thessalonians 1:4:
Therefore, among God's churches we boast about your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring.
(NIV)
And this is a cause of our mentioning you with pride among the churches (assemblies) of God for your steadfastness (your unflinching endurance and patience) and your firm faith in the midst of all the persecutions and crushing distresses and afflictions under which you are holding up.
(AMP)
So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:
(KJV)
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2 Thessalonians 1:7:
And give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels.
(NIV)
And to [recompense] you who are so distressed and afflicted [by granting you] relief and rest along with us [your fellow sufferers] when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels in a flame of fire
(AMP)
And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
(KJV)
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1 Thessalonians 5:23:
May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
(NIV)
And may the God of peace Himself sanctify you through and through [separate you from profane things, make you pure and wholly consecrated to God]; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved sound and complete [and found] blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah).
(AMP)
And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
(KJV)
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1 Thessalonians 4:3:
It is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality
(NIV)
For this is the will of God, that you should be consecrated (separated and set apart for pure and holy living): that you should abstain and shrink from all sexual vice
(AMP)
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
(KJV)
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1 Thessalonians 4:6:
And that in this matter no one should wrong or take advantage of a brother or sister. The Lord will punish all those who commit such sins, as we told you and warned you before.
(NIV)
That no man transgress and overreach his brother and defraud him in this matter or defraud his brother in business. For the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we have already warned you solemnly and told you plainly.
(AMP)
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.
(KJV)
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2 Thessalonians 2:3:
Don't let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction.
(NIV)
Let no one deceive or beguile you in any way, for that day will not come except the apostasy comes first [unless the predicted great falling away of those who have professed to be Christians has come], and the man of lawlessness (sin) is revealed, who is the son of doom (of perdition), [Dan. 7:25; 8:25; I Tim. 4:1.](AMP)
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
(KJV)
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1 Thessalonians 2:13:
And we also thank God continually because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is indeed at work in you who believe.
(NIV)
And we also [especially] thank God continually for this, that when you received the message of God [which you heard] from us, you welcomed it not as the word of [mere] men, but as it truly is, the Word of God, which is effectually at work in you who believe [exercising its superhuman power in those who adhere to and trust in and rely on it].
(AMP)
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 not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
(KJV)
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2 Thessalonians 1:5:
All this is evidence that God's judgment is right, and as a result you will be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering.
(NIV)
This is positive proof of the just and right judgment of God to the end that you may be deemed deserving of His kingdom [a plain token of His fair verdict which designs that you should be made and counted worthy of the kingdom of God], for the sake of which you are also suffering.
(AMP)
Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:
(KJV)
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1 Thessalonians 5:6:
So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be awake and sober.
(NIV)
Accordingly then, let us not sleep, as the rest do, but let us keep wide awake (alert, watchful, cautious, and on our guard) and let us be sober (calm, collected, and circumspect).
(AMP)
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
(KJV)
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1 Thessalonians 4:13:
Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest, who have no hope.
(NIV)
Now also we would not have you ignorant, brethren, about those who fall asleep [in death], that you may not grieve [for them] as the rest do who have no hope [beyond the grave].
(AMP)
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
(KJV)
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1 Thessalonians 5:17:
Pray continually,
(NIV)
Be unceasing in prayer [praying perseveringly](AMP)
Pray without ceasing.
(KJV)
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2 Thessalonians 2:1:
Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers and sisters
(NIV)
BUT RELATIVE to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) and our gathering together to [meet] Him, we beg you, brethren,
(AMP)
Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
(KJV)
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1 Thessalonians 4:5:
Not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God
(NIV)
Not [to be used] in the passion of lust like the heathen, who are ignorant of the true God and have no knowledge of His will
(AMP)
Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
(KJV)
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Study to be quiet, and to do your own business. 1 Thessalonians 4:11
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Test everything, hold on to the good.
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1 Thessalonians 5:16:
Rejoice always
(NIV)
Be happy [in your faith] and rejoice and be glad-hearted continually (always)
(AMP)
Rejoice evermore.
(KJV)
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1 Thessalonians 1:4:
For we know, brothers and sisters loved by God, that he has chosen you
(NIV)
[O] brethren beloved by God, we recognize and know that He has selected (chosen) you
(AMP)
Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.
(KJV)
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1 Thessalonians 5:21:
But test them all; hold on to what is good
(NIV)
But test and prove all things [until you can recognize] what is good; [to that] hold fast.
(AMP)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
(KJV)
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2 Thessalonians 3:4:
We have confidence in the Lord that you are doing and will continue to do the things we command.
(NIV)
And we have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that you are doing and will continue to do the things which we suggest and with which we charge you.
(AMP)
And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you.
(KJV)
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1 Thessalonians 5:7:
For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.
(NIV)
For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who are drunk, get drunk at night.
(AMP)
For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
(KJV)
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