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2 Thessalonians 1:4

Bible in Basic English 1965

So that we ourselves take pride in you in the churches of God for your untroubled mind and your faith in all the troubles and sorrows which you are going through;

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Being glad in hope, quiet in trouble, at all times given to prayer,

To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life:

But if we have hope for that which we see not, then we will be able to go on waiting for it.

Only, as the Lord has given to a man, and as is the purpose of God for him, so let him go on living. And these are my orders for all the churches.

So I take pleasure in being feeble, in unkind words, in needs, in cruel attacks, in troubles, on account of Christ: for when I am feeble, then am I strong.

For I was not put to shame in anything in which I may have made clear to him my pride in you; but as we said nothing to you but what was true, so the good things which I said to Titus about you were seen by him to be true.

My words to you are without fear, I am full of pride on account of you: I have great comfort and joy in all our troubles.

For I have before made clear to those of Macedonia my pride in your ready mind, saying to them that Achaia has been ready for a year back; and a great number have been moved to do the same by your example.

For fear that, if any from Macedonia come with me, and you are not ready, we not to say, you might be put to shame in this thing.

Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

For you, my brothers, took as your examples the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; because you underwent the same things from your countrymen as they did from the Jews;

For what is our hope or joy or crown of glory? Are not even you, before our Lord Jesus, at his coming?

And may your hearts be guided by the Lord into the love of God and quiet waiting for Christ.

For, having done what was right in God's eyes, you have need of waiting before his word has effect for you.

So that you may not be slow in heart, but may take as your example those to whom God has given their heritage, because of their faith and their long waiting.

And so, when he had been waiting calmly for a long time, God's word to him was put into effect.

We say that those men who have gone through pain are happy: you have the story of Job and the troubles through which he went and have seen that the Lord was full of pity and mercy in the end.

And self-control to knowledge, and a quiet mind to self-control, and fear of God to a quiet mind,

Here is the quiet strength of the saints, who keep the orders of God, and the faith of Jesus.




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