CIL Daily Bible Readings

CIL Daily Bible Readings

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  • 2nd Thessalonians 1,2
    Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
    Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
    We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
    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:
    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:
    Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
    And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
    In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
    Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
    When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
    Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:
    That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
    Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
    That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
    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;
    Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
    Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
    And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
    For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
    And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
    Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
    And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
    And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
    That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
    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:
    Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
    Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
    Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
    Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.
    5 min
  • Joel 2
    Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
    A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
    A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
    The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run.
    Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
    Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.
    They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks:
    Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.
    They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.
    The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:
    And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?
    Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
    And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
    Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?
    Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:
    Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.
    Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
    Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people.
    Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen:
    But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.
    Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things.
    Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength.
    Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.
    And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.
    And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent
    6 min
  • Nehemiah 7
    Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed,
    That I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the palace, charge over Jerusalem: for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.
    And I said unto them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun be hot; and while they stand by, let them shut the doors, and bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every one to be over against his house.
    Now the city was large and great: but the people were few therein, and the houses were not builded.
    And my God put into mine heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and found written therein,
    These are the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity, of those that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and came again to Jerusalem and to Judah, every one unto his city;
    Who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number, I say, of the men of the people of Israel was this;
    The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy and two.
    The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.
    The children of Arah, six hundred fifty and two.
    The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand and eight hundred and eighteen.
    The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
    The children of Zattu, eight hundred forty and five.
    The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore.
    The children of Binnui, six hundred forty and eight.
    The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty and eight.
    The children of Azgad, two thousand three hundred twenty and two.
    The children of Adonikam, six hundred threescore and seven.
    The children of Bigvai, two thousand threescore and seven.
    The children of Adin, six hundred fifty and five.
    The children of Ater of Hezekiah, ninety and eight.
    The children of Hashum, three hundred twenty and eight.
    The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty and four.
    The children of Hariph, an hundred and twelve.
    The children of Gibeon, ninety and five.
    The men of Bethlehem and Netophah, an hundred fourscore and eight.
    The men of Anathoth, an hundred twenty and eight.
    The men of Bethazmaveth, forty and two.
    The men of Kirjathjearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty and three.
    The men of Ramah and Gaba, six hundred twenty and one.
    The men of Michmas, an hundred and twenty and two.
    The men of Bethel and Ai, an hundred twenty and three.
    The men of the other Nebo, fifty and two.
    The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
    The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty.
    The children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five.
    The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty and one.
    The children of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred and thirty.
    The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
    The children of Immer, a thousand fifty and two.
    The children of Pashur, a thousand two hundred forty and seven.
    The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.
    The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, and of the children of Hodevah, seventy and four.
    The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred forty and eight.
    The porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, an hundred thirty and eight.
    The Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of Hashupha, the children of Tabbaoth,
    The children of Keros, the children of Sia, the children of Padon,
    The children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Shalmai,
    The childre
    8 min
  • 1st Thessalonians 5
    But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
    For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
    For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
    But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
    Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
    Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
    For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
    But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
    For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
    Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
    Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
    And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
    And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves.
    Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.
    See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.
    Rejoice evermore.
    Pray without ceasing.
    In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
    Quench not the Spirit.
    Despise not prophesyings.
    Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
    Abstain from all appearance of evil.
    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.
    Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.
    Brethren, pray for us.
    Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss.
    I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren.
    The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
    3 min
  • Nehemiah 5,6
    And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
    For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live.
    Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.
    There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.
    Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.
    And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.
    Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.
    And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer.
    Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?
    I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.
    Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.
    Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise.
    Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the LORD. And the people did according to this promise.
    Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor.
    But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
    Yea, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants were gathered thither unto the work.
    Moreover there were at my table an hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, beside those that came unto us from among the heathen that are about us.
    Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.
    Think upon me, my God, for good, according to all that I have done for this people.
    Now it came to pass when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates;)
    That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.
    And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?
    Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the
    8 min
  • Joel 1
    The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
    Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?
    Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
    That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.
    Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
    For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.
    He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
    Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
    The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn.
    The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
    Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.
    The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.
    Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.
    Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,
    Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
    Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
    The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
    How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
    O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.
    The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
    4 min
  • 1st Thessalonians 3,4
    Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone;
    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:
    That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.
    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.
    For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.
    But now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you:
    Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:
    For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.
    For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;
    Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
    Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.
    And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
    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.
    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.
    For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
    For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
    That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
    Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
    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.
    For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
    He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
    But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
    And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;
    And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
    That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
    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.
    For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
    For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
    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:
    Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
    Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
    5 min
  • Nehemiah 4
    But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.
    And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?
    Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.
    Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:
    And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.
    So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.
    But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,
    And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.
    Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
    And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.
    And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.
    And it came to pass, that when the Jews which dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times, From all places whence ye shall return unto us they will be upon you.
    Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
    And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember the LORD, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.
    And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known unto us, and God had brought their counsel to nought, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work.
    And it came to pass from that time forth, that the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.
    They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon.
    For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me.
    And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The work is great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from another.
    In what place therefore ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us: our God shall fight for us.
    So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.
    Likewise at the same time said I unto the people, Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and labour on the day.
    So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing.
    5 min
  • Hosea 14
    O israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
    Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.
    Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
    I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
    I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
    His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
    They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
    Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.
    Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
    2 min
  • 1st Thessalonians 1,2
    Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
    We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;
    Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
    Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.
    For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.
    And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost.
    So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.
    For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.
    For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;
    And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
    For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain:
    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.
    For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
    But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.
    For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:
    Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.
    But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:
    So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.
    For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
    Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:
    As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,
    That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
    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.
    For 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:
    Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
    Forbidding 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.
    But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.
    Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.
    For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
    For ye are our glory and joy.
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