Modern Literal Version
[1 Thessalonians 1]


     1:1 Paul and Silvanus and Timothy to the congregation of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: grace to you* and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.


     1:2 We are always giving-thanks to God concerning you* all, making* mention of you* in our prayers; 1:3 constantly remembering your* work of the faith and labor of love* and endurance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in front of our God and Father, 1:4 having known your* choice, brethren who are beloved by God. 1:5 You* know because our good-news did not only come to you* in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and in much full assurance; just-as you* know what manner of men we became among you* because of you*. 1:6 And you* became imitators of us and of the Lord, having accepted the word in much affliction with joy of the Holy Spirit; 1:7 so-that you* became examples to all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia. 1:8 For* the word of the Lord has echoed forth from you*, not only in Macedonia and in Achaia, but also in every place your* faith toward God has gone forth; so-that we do not need to say anything. 1:9 For* they themselves are reporting concerning us what sort of entrance we had toward you* and how you* turned from idols to God and turned to serve* a living and true God, 1:10 and to await his Son Jesus, from the heavens, whom he lifted up from the dead; who rescues us from the wrath to come.


[1 Thessalonians 2]


     2:1 For* brethren, you* yourselves know our entrance to you*, that it has not become empty. 2:2 But having suffered before and been abused in Philippi, as you* know, we were bold in our God to speak to you* the good-news of God even with our great struggle.

    2:3 For* our encouragement is not from deceit, nor from uncleanness, nor in treachery. 2:4 But just-as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good-news, so we are speaking; not as pleasing men, but God who proves our hearts. 2:5 For* as you* know, neither did we previously use words of flattery, nor by pretext of greed, (God is our witness); 2:6 nor were we seeking glory from men, neither from you* nor from others, when we were able to burden you* as apostles of Christ. 2:7 But we became mild in your* midst, as a nurse may cherish her own children. 2:8 So having kindly-feelings of you*, we were delighted to have given to you*, not only the good-news of God, but also our own souls, because you* have become beloved to us.

    2:9 For* brethren, you* remember our labor and hardship. For* we were working night and day, *that* we might not burden any of you* while we preached to you* the good-news of God. 2:10 You* and God are witnesses, how we became holy and righteous and blameless toward you* who believe. 2:11 Just-as you* know how we dealt with each one of you*, like a father with his own children, encouraging you* and consoling you* and testifying, 2:12 *that* you* should walk worthy of God, who calls you* into his own kingdom and glory.


     2:13 And because of this, we also are constantly giving-thanks to God, that, when you* accepted the word of God from our report, you* accepted it not as the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God which is also working in you* who believe. 2:14 For* brethren, you* became imitators of the congregations of God in Christ Jesus which are in Judea, because you* also suffered the same things by your* own countrymen, just-as they did by the Jews. 2:15 The Jews who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets and banished us and did not please God and are adverse to all men; 2:16 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles in order that they might be saved; *that* they should always fill up their sins; but the wrath has arrive-unexpectedly upon them– to the end.


     2:17 But brethren, being orphaned from you* in presence, but not in heart, even for a hour’s time, we were even-more diligent to see your* face with great desire. 2:18 Hence we wished to come to you*, indeed, I, Paul, once and again tried twice, and Satan hindered us. 2:19 For* what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting, or is it not also you*, which is in front of our Lord Jesus Christ at his presence? 2:20 For* you* are our glory and our joy.


[1 Thessalonians 3]


     3:1 Hence, no longer forbearing it, we were delighted to be left behind in Athens alone. 3:2 And we sent Timothy, our brother and God's servant and fellow worker in the good-news of Christ, *that* he might establish and comfort you*, in regard to your* faith; 3:3 that no one be stirred up by these afflictions; for* you* yourselves know that we are destined *for this. 3:4 For* even when we were with you*, we told you* beforehand that we are about to be afflicted; just-as it happened and you* know. 3:5 Because of this I also, no longer forbearing it, sent Timothy, *that* I might know your* faith, lest the tempter had tempted you* and our labor might be in vain. 3:6 But when Timothy came now to us from you* and brought us good-news of your* faith and love* and that you* have a good remembrance of us, always, longing to see us, just-as we also long to see you*. 3:7 Because of this brethren, we were comforted over you* in all our affliction and calamity through your* faith, 3:8 because now we live, if you* are standing fast in the Lord. 3:9 For* what thanksgiving are we able to repay to God concerning you*? For all the joy with which we are rejoicing in front of our God is because of you*, 3:10 unusually beseeching God night and day, *that* we may see your* face and may perfect the deficit in your* faith.


     3:11 Now may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus Christ, steer our way to you*. 3:12 And may the Lord make you* increase and abound in love* one toward another and toward all men, just-as we also do toward you*; 3:13 *that* he might establish your* hearts blameless in holiness in front of our God and Father, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, with all his holy-ones.


[1 Thessalonians 4]


     4:1 Then* furthermore brethren, we request and are encouraging you* in the Lord Jesus, even as you* received from us how you* ought to walk and to please God, that* you* might abound even more. 4:2 For* you* know what commands we gave you* through the Lord Jesus. 4:3 For* this is the will of God, your* sanctification, that you* abstain from fornication; 4:4 that each one of you* know how to procure his own vessel in sanctification and honor, 4:5 not in the passion of lust, just-as the Gentiles who do not know God. 4:6 Also, that no one goes beyond limits and takes-advantage of his brother in the matter, because the Lord is an avenger concerning all these things, as we have also told you* beforehand and testified. 4:7 For* God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification. 4:8 Therefore he who is rejecting this, is not rejecting man, but God, who also gives his Holy Spirit to you*.


     4:9 Now concerning brotherly-love you* have no need that one writes to you*; for* you* yourselves are taught by God, *that* you* should love* one another; 4:10 for* you* are also doing it toward all the brethren who are in all of Macedonia. But we encourage you*, brethren, that you* abound more and more, 4:11 and that you* make it your aim to be quiet and to do your* own business and to work with your* own hands (just-as we commanded you*), 4:12 that* you* may walk decently toward those who are outside and may have need of nothing.


     4:13 But we do not wish you*, brethren, to be ignorant concerning those who have fallen-asleep; in order that you* may not be sorrowful like the rest who have no hope. 4:14 For* if we believe that Jesus died and rose* up again, so those who have fallen-asleep {F} in Jesus, God will also bring with him. 4:15 For* this we are saying to you* in the word of the Lord, that we, the living, who are left toward the presence of the Lord, may never* attain heaven before those who have fallen-asleep. 4:16 Because the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a commanding yell, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God and the dead in Christ will rise* up first; 4:17 thereafter we, the living, who are left, will be taken away at the same time with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air and so we will always be with the Lord. 4:18 So-then comfort one another with these words.


    {Footnotes: 1Th 4:14- Or: through.}


[1 Thessalonians 5]


     5:1 Now brethren you* have no need that anything be written to you* concerning the times and the seasons. 5:2 For* you yourselves know accurately that the day of the Lord so comes like a thief in the night. 5:3 For* whenever they are saying, Peace and security; then sudden utter-ruin stands by them, like having travail in the womb, and they may never* escape. 5:4 But brethren, you* are not in darkness, that* the day might overtake you* like a thief. 5:5 You* are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night, nor of darkness; 5:6 then* consequently, do not sleep, like the rest also do, but we should watch and should be sober. 5:7 For* those who are sleeping, sleep in the night and those who are drunken are drunken in the night. 5:8 But we should be sober, since we are of the day; clothing yourselves with the breastplate of faith and love*, and the hope of salvation like a helmet. 5:9 Because God has not appointed* us to wrath, but to the acquisition of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 5:10 who died on our behalf, that*, whether we should watch or sleep, we should live at the same time with him. 5:11 Hence encourage one another and build each other up, just-as you* are also doing.


     5:12 But we request you*, brethren, to know those who are laboring among you* and are governing over you* and admonishing you* in the Lord; 5:13 and to deem them unusually in love* because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves. 5:14 And brethren, we encourage you*, admonish the disorderly, console the fainthearted, hold up the weak, be patient toward all. 5:15 See that no one repays evil in exchange-for evil to anyone; but always pursue what is good, both toward one another and toward all. 5:16 Rejoice always; 5:17 pray constantly; 5:18 in everything give-thanks; for* this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you*. 5:19 Do not quench the Spirit; 5:20 do not scorn prophesying; 5:21 prove all things; hold-onto what is good; 5:22 abstain from every form of evil.


     5:23 And may the God of peace himself sanctify you* entirely and may your* whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ. 5:24 Faithful is he who calls you*, who will also do it.


     5:25 Brethren, pray concerning us.


     5:26 Greet all the brethren with a holy kiss. 5:27 I am imploring you* by the Lord that this letter be read to all the holy brethren.


     5:28 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you*. Amen.





Modern Literal Version Preface & Appendix , copyright 1999, 2014 by G. Allen Walker for the MLV New Testament Committee.
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