We always speak as God wants us to.
(1 Thessalonians 2:4, Good News Bible)
We do not try to please men, but to please God, who tests our motives.
(1 Thessalonians 2:4, Good News Bible)
God is at work in you who believe.
(1 Thessalonians 2:13, Good News Bible)
When we brought you God’s message, you heard it and accepted it, not as man’s message but as God’s message, which indeed it is. For God is at work among you who believe.
(1 Thessalonians 2:13, Good News For
Modern Man New Testament)
Persecutions are part of God’s will for us.
(1 Thessalonians 3:3, Good News For
Modern Man New Testament)
This is God’s will for you: he wants you to be holy and completely free from immorality.
(1 Thessalonians 4:3, Good News For
Modern Man New Testament)
Don’t be like a slave of your desires or live like people who don’t know God.
(1 Thessalonians 4:5, Contemporary English Version)
God did not call us to live in immorality, but in holiness.
(1 Thessalonians 4:7, Good News Bible)
God didn’t choose you to be filthy, but to be pure.
(1 Thessalonians 4:7, Contemporary English Version)
Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business.
(1 Thessalonians 4:11)
Try your best to live quietly, to mind your own business, and to work hard.
(1 Thessalonians 4:11, Contemporary English Version)
Make it your aim to live a quiet life, to mind your own business, and earn your own living, just as we told you before. In this way you will win the respect of those who are not believers, and will not have to depend on anyone for what you need.
(1 Thessalonians 4:11-12, Good News
Man New Testament)
We believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will take back with Jesus those who died believing in him.
(1 Thessalonians 4:14, Good News Bible)
You belong to the light and live in the day.
(1 Thessalonians 5:5, Contemporary English Version)
It is at night when people get drunk. But we belong to the day, and we should be sober. We must wear faith and love as a breastplate, and our hope of salvation as the helmet.
(1 Thessalonians 5:7-8, Good News Bible)
Encourage anyone who feels left out, help all who are weak, and be patient with everyone.
(1 Thessalonians 5:14, Contemporary English Version)
Warn the idle, encourage the timid, help the weak, be patient with all. See that no one pays back wrong for wrong, but at all times make it you aim to do goo d to one another and to all people.
(1 Thessalonians 5:14-15, Good News Bible)
Be good to each other and to everyone else.
(1 Thessalonians 5:15, Contemporary English Version)
Be joyful always.
(1 Thessalonians 5:16)
Always be joyful and never stop praying.
(1 Thessalonians 5:16, Contemporary English Version)
Be thankful in all circumstances.
(1 Thessalonians 5:18)
Don’t turn away God’s Spirit.
(1 Thessalonians 5:19, Contemporary English Version)
Put all things to the test: keep what is good and avoid every kind of evil.
(1 Thessalonians 5:21, Good News Bible)
Put everything to the test. Accept what is good and don’t have anything to do with evil.
(1 Thessalonians 5:21-22, Contemporary English Version)