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1 Thessalonians · read by John Piper
26 verses, in order. Only the verses John read aloud are shown.
1 Thessalonians 2
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On the contrary, we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother caring for her children.Read from ESV · Single in Christ a Name Better Than Sons and Daughters
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We cared so deeply that we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God, but our own lives as well. That is how beloved you have become to us.Read from ESV · How God's Word Produces Our Work
1 Thessalonians 3
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so that none of you would be shaken by these trials. For you know that we are destined for this.Read from ESV · The Second Coming Wrath and Rescue
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For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter had somehow tempted you and caused our labor to be in vain.Read from NASB1995 · Suffering for the Sake of the Body - Lesson 1
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And may the Lord cause you to increase and overflow with love for one another and for everyone else, just as our love for you overflows,Read from NASB1995 · Battling Unbelief - Part 2
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so that He may establish your hearts in blamelessness and holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints. Amen.Read from NASB1995 · Battling Unbelief - Part 2
1 Thessalonians 4
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For you know the instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.Read from ESV · Battling the Unbelief of Lust
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For it is God's will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;Read from ESV · How to Know the Will of God (Video)
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each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,Read from NASB1995 · Battling the Unbelief of Lust
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not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;Read from NASB1995 · Living by Faith in Future Grace - Lesson 4
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For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.Read from ESV · Battling the Unbelief of Lust
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Anyone, then, who rejects this command does not reject man but God, the very One who gives you His Holy Spirit.Read from ESV · Battling the Unbelief of Lust
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By the word of the Lord, we declare to you that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who have fallen asleep.Read from ESV · Prayer and the Victory of God
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For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise.Read from NKJV · Prayer and the Victory of God
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After that, we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.Read from ESV · Prayer and the Victory of God
1 Thessalonians 5
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But you, brothers, are not in the darkness so that this day should overtake you like a thief.Read from ESV · Put on the Lord Jesus Christ, Part One
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For those who sleep, sleep at night; and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.Read from ESV · Put on the Lord Jesus Christ, Part One
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But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and the helmet of our hope of salvation.Read from ESV · Put on the Lord Jesus Christ, Part One
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For God has not appointed us to suffer wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.Read from ESV · Put on the Lord Jesus Christ, Part One
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He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with Him.Read from ESV · Don't Be a Sucker
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But we ask you, brothers, to acknowledge those who work diligently among you, who preside over you in the Lord and give you instruction.Read from NASB1995 · Biblical Eldership - Lesson 2
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but test all things. Hold fast to what is good.Read from NKJV · The Glory of God as the Ground of the Mind’s Certainty
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The One who calls you is faithful, and He will do it.Read from ESV · Battling the Unbelief of Anxiety