1 Thessalonians 5 — TNT
5Verse 1Of the tymes and seasons brethren ye have no nede that I write vnto you:Verse 2for ye youre selves knowe parfectly that the daye of the Lorde shall come even as a thefe in the nyght.Verse 3When they shall saye peace and no daunger than commeth on the soden destruccion as the travalynge of a woman with childe and they shall not scape.Verse 4But ye brethren are not in darcknes that that daye shuld come on you as it were a thefe.Verse 5Ye are all the children of light and the children of the daye. We are not of the nyght nether of darcknes.Verse 6Therfore let vs not slepe as do other: but let vs watch and be sober.Verse 7For they that slepe slepe in the nyght: and they that be dronken are dronken in the nyght.Verse 8But let vs which are of the daye be sober armed with the brest plate of fayth and love and with hope of salvacion as an helmet.Verse 9For god hath not apoynted vs vnto wrath: but to obtayne salvacion by the meanes of oure lorde Iesu ChristVerse 10which died for vs: that whether we wake or slepe we shuld lyve togedder with him.Verse 11Wherfore comforte youre selves togedder and edifie one another even as ye do.Verse 12We beseche you brethren that ye knowe them which laboure amonge you and have the oversight of you in the Lorde and geve you exhortacionVerse 13that ye have them the more in love for their workes sake and be at peace with them.Verse 14We desyre you brethren warne them that are vnruly comforte the feble mynded forbeare the weake have continuall pacience towarde all men.Verse 15Se that none recopence evill for evyll vnto eny man: but ever folowe that which is good both amonge youre selves and to all men.Verse 16Reioyce ever.Verse 17Praye continually.Verse 18In all thinges geve thankes. For this is the wyll of God in Christ Iesu towarde you.Verse 19Quenche not the sprete.Verse 20Despise not prophesyinge.Verse 21Examen all thinges and kepe that which is good.Verse 22Abstayne from all suspicious thinges.Verse 23The very God of peace sanctifie you thorow out. And I praye God that youre whole sprete soulse and body be kept fautlesse vnto the comynge of oure Lorde Iesus ChristVerse 24Faythfull is he which called you: which will also do it.Verse 25Brethren praye for vs.Verse 26Grete all the brethren with an holy kysse.Verse 27I charge you in the Lorde that this pistle be reed vnto all the holy brethren.Verse 28The grace of the Lorde Iesus Christ be with you. Amen. ‘The fyrst pistle vnto the Tessalonyans sent from Athens.’