Chapter 1
SHA’UL, and Silvanus, and Timotiyos, to the assembly of thessalonians which is in Yah the Father and in Adonay Yahooshua the Anointed One of Yah: Chen be to you, and peace, from Yah our Father, and Adonay Yahooshua the Anointed One of Yah.
2 We give thanks to Yah always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;
3 Remembering without ceasing your work of Emunah, and labour of Chesed, and patience of hope in our Adonay Yahooshua the Anointed One of Yah, in the sight of Yah and our Father;
4 Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of Yah.
5 For our Good News came not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Set-Apart Spirit, and in much assurance; as you know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.
6 And you became followers of us, and of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Set-Apart Spirit:
7 So that you were ensamples to all that believe in Makedonia and Achaia.
8 For from you sounded out the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing not only in Makedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your Emunah to Mighty One-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.
9 For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had to you, and how you turned to Yah from idols to serve the living and true Mighty One;
10 And to wait for his Son from Heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Yahooshua, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
CHAPTER 2
FOR yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in to you, that it was not in vain:
2 But even after that we had sufferted before, and were shamefully entreated, as you know, at Philippi, we were bold in our Mighty One to speak to you the Good News of Yah with much contention.
3 For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
4 But as we were allowed of Yah to be put in trust with the Good News, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but Yah, which trieth our hearts.
5 For neither at any time used we flattering words, as you know, nor a cloke of covetousness; Yah is witness:
6 Nor of men sought we Kavod, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the Emissaries of the Anointing of the Spirit of Yah.
7 But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:
8 So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted to you, not the Good News of Yah only, but also our own souls, because you were dear to us.
9 For you remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable to any of you, we preached to you the Good News of Yah.
10 Ye are witnesses, and Yah also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:
11 As you know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,
12 That you would walk worthy of Yah, who has called you to his Kingdom and Kavod.
13 For this cause also thank we Yah without ceasing, because, when you received the word of Yah which you heard of us, you received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of Yah, which effectually works also in you that believe.
14 For you, brethren, became followers of the assemblies of Yah which in Yahooḏah are in The Anointing of the Spirit of Yah that was upon Yahooshua: for you also have sufferted like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Yahoodi’iy:
15 Who both killed Adonay Yahooshua, and their own Spokesmen of Yah, and have persecuted us; and they please not Yah, and are contrary to all men:
16 Forbidding us to speak to the Ha-goyim that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
17 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.
18 Wherefore we would have come to you, even I Sha’ul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.
19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even you in the presence of our Adonay Yahooshua the Anointed One of Yah at his coming?
20 For you are our Kavod and joy.
CHAPTER 3
WHEREFORE when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone;
2 And sent Timotiyos, our brother, and minister of Yah, and our fellowlabourer in the Good News of the Anointing of the Spirit of Yah, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your Emunah:
3 That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.
4 For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and you know.
5 For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your Emunah, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.
6 But now when Timotiyos came from you to us, and brought us good tidings of your Emunah and charity, and that you have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you:
7 Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your Emunah:
8 For now we live, if you stand fast in Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
9 For what thanks can we render to Yah again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our Mighty One;
10 Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your Emunah?
11 Now Yah himself and our Father, and our Adonay Yahooshua the Anointed One of Yah, direct our way to you.
12 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing make you to increase and abound in Chesed one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
13 To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in Set-Apartness before Yah, even our Father, at the coming of our Adonay Yahooshua the Anointed One of Yah with all his Set-Apart Ones.
CHAPTER 4
FURTHERMORE then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by Adonay Yahooshua, that as you have received of us how you ought to walk and to please Yah, so you would abound more and more.
2 For you know what commandments we gave you by Adonay Yahooshua.
3 For this is the will of Yah, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from fornication:
4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Ha-goyim which know not Yah:
6 That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
7 For Yah has not called us to uncleanness, but to Set-Apartness.
8 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but Yah, who has also given to us his Set-Apart Spirit.
9 But as touching brotherly Chesed you need not that I write to you: for you yourselves are taught of Yah to Chesed one another.
10 And indeed you do it toward all the brethren which are in all Makedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that you increase more and more;
11 And that you study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
12 That you may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that you may have lack of nothing.
13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that you sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Yahooshua died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Yahooshua will Yah bring with him.
15 For this we say to you by the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, that we which are alive and remain to the coming of Adonay shall not prevent them which are asleep.
16 For Adonay himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archmessenger, and with the trump of Yah: and the dead in the Anointing of the Spirit of Yah shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet Adonay in the air: and so shall we ever be with Adonay.
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
CHAPTER 5
BUT of the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I write to you.
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of Adonay so cometh as a thief in the night.
3 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.
4 But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of Emunah and Chesed; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
9 For Yah has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Adonay Yahooshua the Anointed One of Yah,
10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also you do.
12 And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and admonish you;
13 And to esteem them very highly in Chesed for their work’s sake. And be at peace among yourselves.
14 Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.
15 See that none render evil for evil to any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.
16 Rejoice evermore.
17 Pray without ceasing.
18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of Yah in The Anointing of the Spirit of Yah that was upon Yahooshua concerning you.
19 Quench not the Spirit.
20 Despise not prophesyings.
21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
22 Abstain from all appearance of evil.
23 And the very Yah of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray Yah your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless to the coming of our Adonay Yahooshua the Anointed One of Yah.
24 Emunahful is he that calls you, who also will do it.
25 Brethren, pray for us.
26 Greet all the brethren with an Set-Apart kiss.
27 I charge you by Yah the Eternally Self-Existing that this epistle be read to all the Set-Apart brethren.
28 The Chen of our Adonay Yahooshua the Anointed One of Yah be with you. Aměn.