1st Thessalonians 

Thanking Jesus

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¹Thank You for Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy who wrote to the assembly of the Thessalonians and also to me in Your Father, our God, and in You, Lord Jesus Christ.

Thank You for the grace given to me and the peace from God, our Father, and from You, our Lord Jesus Christ.

²Thank You that they always gave thanks to You for all of the Thessalonian Christians, mentioning them in their prayers, ³remembering without ceasing their work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in You, Lord Jesus Christ, before Your Father, our God.

⁴I am so thankful to know, Jesus, that I am loved by God, that I am chosen, ⁵and that Good News came to me not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance.

I am thankful also to know what kind of men Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy showed themselves to be among the Thessalonian Christians for my sake.

⁶Thank You that I want to become imitators of them, and of You, Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy inspired by the Holy Spirit.

⁷Thank You that I can become an example to all who believe in my area as they did in Macedonia and in Achaia.

⁸Thank You that from me Your word, O Lord, will be declared, not only in my area, as it was in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place my faith toward You goes out; so that I need not to say anything.

⁹Thank You that others themselves will report concerning me what kind of a welcome I have among other Christians; and how I turned to You from idols, to serve You, a living and true God. ^[1]0I am glad that I am waiting for You, God’s Son, from heaven, Whom He raised from the dead.  Jesus, thank You for delivering me from the wrath to come.

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³Thank You that their message was true, that their motives were pure, and their conduct was aboveboard.

⁴Thank You for approving them to be entrusted with Your Good News. Thank You that they spoke; not as pleasing people, but as pleasing You, their God, Who tests our hearts.

⁵Thank You that Paul’s company were not at any time found using words of flattery, (as we know), nor a cloak for greed (as You, O God are witness), ⁶nor seeking glory from people (neither from us nor from others), when they could have claimed authority as Your apostles, O Christ. ⁷Thank You that they were gentle among them, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

⁸Thank You that they, affectionately longing for us, were well pleased to impart to us, not Your Good News only, but also their own souls, because the present Christians and we future ones had become very dear to them.

⁹Thank You for reminding me, with my brothers of long ago, of Paul’s labor and travail. Thank You that Paul and his team worked night and day, that they might not burden any of the Christians as they preached to them Your Good News.

¹⁰Thank You for the Thessalonians who were witnesses with You, O Christ, how holy, righteously, and blamelessly Paul’s group behaved themselves toward all who believe. ¹¹Thank You that we know that, they exhorted, comforted, and implored every person, as a father does his own children, ¹²to the end that we should walk worthily of You, Jesus.

Thank You for calling us into Your own Kingdom and glory.

¹³For this cause I also thank You, Jesus, without ceasing, that, when I received the word of Your message, I accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in me as a believer.

¹⁴Thank You for the Christians who became imitators of Your assemblies which were in Judea in You, O Christ Jesus. I appreciate that they also suffered the same things from their own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews; ¹⁵who killed both You, Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and drove Paul’s company out, and did not please You, their God, and are contrary to all men; ¹⁶forbidding Paul to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to make up the full measure of their guilt. Thank You that wrath has come on them at last.

¹⁷Thank You that Paul, being physically separated from the Thessalonian brothers for a short season, in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see their faces with great desire. ¹⁸Thank You that Paul’s group wanted to come to them—indeed, Paul, purposed to come more than once— but Satan hindered him.

¹⁹Thank You that Paul’s hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing is even us, before You, our Lord Jesus, at Your coming.

²⁰Thank You that we are his glory and his joy.

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¹Therefore, I am grateful that when Paul’s group could not stand it any longer, they thought it good to leave him behind at Athens alone, ²and sent Timothy, their brother and Your servant in Your Good News, O Christ, to establish the Christians in Thessalonica, and to comfort them (and us) concerning our faith. ³Thank You that none of us will lose heart because of these troubles. I am thankful to be warned that we Christians are appointed to this task of suffering. ⁴Thank You most certainly that, when Paul’s group was with the Thessalonians, they told them beforehand that they were to suffer affliction, even as it came true, as we know.

⁵Thank You for Paul’s concern also that, when he could not stand it any longer, he sent that he might know the Thessalonians faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted them, and Paul’s labor would have been in vain.

⁶Thank You that when Timothy came to Paul from them, he brought Paul’s team glad news of their faith and love, and that they had good memories of them always, longing to see them, even as they also long to see them. ⁷Thank You that for this cause, with his brothers, Paul was comforted over them in all his distress and affliction through their faith.

⁸Thank You that now I also live as I stand fast in You, Lord. ⁹How can I thank You enough for faithful Christians and for all the joy with which I also rejoice for their sakes before You, Jesus?

¹⁰Night and day I pray exceedingly thanking You for seeing other Christian’s faces, and completing whatever is lacking in their faith.

¹¹Now I thank Your Father God Himself, and You, our Lord Jesus Christ, for directing my way to others. ¹²Lord, thank You for making me to increase and abound in love toward others, and toward all people, even as I also do toward Your people.

^1[2]Thank You that in the end You will establish my heart blameless in holiness before Your Father God, at Your coming, Lord Jesus, with all Your saints.

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¹Finally then, Lord Jesus, I thank You and Your Father, that I received from this letter how I ought to walk and how to please You.  Thank You that I abound more and more in a life that pleases You.

²Thank You for the instructions Paul gave me through You, Lord Jesus.

⁶I appreciate that You do not want any one to take advantage of or wrong a brother or sister in any matter. Thank You, Lord, that You are an avenger in all these things, as also I have been forewarned and testified.

⁷Thank You that You called me not for impurity, but to holiness. ⁸Therefore, I am thankful to know that if I reject Your holiness, I do not reject man, but You, Jesus, Who have also given the Holy Spirit to me.

⁹But concerning brotherly love, thank You that Paul had no need to write to them. Thank You that I (like the Thessalonians themselves) was taught by You to love one another. ¹⁰Thank You that they indeed did show love toward all the brothers and sisters who were in all Macedonia.

Thank You for exhorting me, Jesus, with my siblings, that we love each other more and more. ¹¹Thank You that I make it my ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do my own business, and to work with my own hands, even as You instructed me. ¹²Thank You that I have a reputation for honesty in the world outside and an honorable independence.

^[3]3Thank You for not leaving me ignorant, along with my Christian siblings, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that we do not grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

¹⁴Because I believe that You died and rose again, I am grateful to know that God will bring with You, Jesus, those of us who have fallen asleep in You. ¹⁵Thank You for telling us, by the Your word, O Lord, that we who are alive, who are left to Your coming, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep.

¹⁶For Lord, You Yourself, will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with Your Father’s trumpet. The dead in You will rise first, ¹⁷then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet You, Lord, in the air. So we will be with You forever. ¹⁸Thank You, therefore, that we can comfort one another with these words.

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sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and that they will in no way escape.

⁴Thank You that my Christian siblings and I , are not in darkness, that the day should overtake us like a thief. ⁵Thank You that we are all children of light, and children of the day and that we do not belong to the night, nor to darkness.

⁶So then thank You for helping us not sleep, as the rest do, but to watch and be sober. ⁷For those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunk are drunk in the night. ⁸But since we belong to the day, I thank You that we are sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and, for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

⁹Thank You that You did not appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through You, our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁰Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we can live together with You.

¹¹Therefore, thank You that we can encourage one another, and build each other up, even as we are doing. ¹² I also thank You, Jesus, for helping us to know those who labor among us, and are over us in You Lord, and admonish us. ¹³ Thank You that I can respect and honor them in love for their work’s sake.

Thank You that we can be at peace among ourselves. ¹⁴Thank You, Jesus, for urging me to admonish the disorderly, to encourage the fainthearted, to support the weak, to be patient toward all, ¹⁵and to see that no one repays evil for evil to anyone.  I appreciate that You want us to always seek to do good, to one another, and to all.

¹⁶Thank You that I rejoice always, ¹⁷ pray without ceasing, ¹⁸ and give thanks in everything, for this is the will of God in You, Christ Jesus, toward me.

¹⁹Thank You that I will not quench the Spirit. ²⁰nor despise prophesies. ²¹Thank You that I will test all things and hold firmly that which is good. ²²Thank You that I will abstain from every form of evil.

²³Thank You that You, the God of peace Yourself, are sanctifying me completely. Thank You for preserving my whole spirit, soul, and body to be blameless at Your coming, O Lord Jesus Christ.

²⁴I am grateful that You Who calls me, are faithful and that You can be trusted to do what You promise.

²⁵Thank You for helping my Christian siblings to pray for me  ²⁶and warmly greet me.

²⁷I am so thankful that Paul solemnly commanded by You, Lord, that this letter be read to all the holy Christians including me.

²⁸Thank Your for Your grace, O Lord Jesus Christ, which is with us. Amen.

JESUS, THANK YOU THAT BECAUSE OF WHO YOU ARE…

I am given grace and peace from God and from You, O Christ.

I am working in faith.

I am laboring in love.

I am patient in hope.

I am loved by God.

I am chosen.

I am assured of the Good News in both word and power.

I am an imitator of Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy.

I am inspired with joy by God’s Holy Spirit.

I am an example to all who believe in my area.

I am declaring God’s word.

I am welcome among other Christians.

I am delivered from the wrath to come.

I am true in message.

I am pure in motive.

I am above board in conduct.

I am entrusted in God’s Good News.

I am not pleasing people.

I am pleasing God.

I am being tested in my heart.

I am gentle.

I am imparting my very soul to others.

I am behaving righteously and blamelessly toward all who believe.

I am walking worthily of You, my Christ.

I am accepting God’s Word as truth.

I am sometimes hindered by Satan.

I am Your glory and joy.

I am not a person to lose heart because of my troubles.

I am appointed to this task of suffering.

I am comforted in all my distress and affliction through faith.

I am alive.

I am standing fast in You.

I am directed to others.

I am increasing and abounding in love.

I am established as blameless in heart and holy before God.

I am abounding more and more in a life that pleases God.

I am abstaining from sexual immorality.

I am controlling my own body in sanctification and honor.

I am not into self-gratification.

I am not taking advantage or wronging any brother or sister in any matter.

I am not called for impurity.

I am called for holiness.

I am not rejecting You.

I am loving others more and more.

I am leading a quiet life.

I am doing my own business.

I am working with my own hands.

I am honest in the outside world.

I am honorably independent.

I am not grieving like others who have no hope.

I am safe if I fall asleep in You.

I am comforted by Your promise to return.

I am not in darkness.

I am a child of light.

I am not asleep.

I am watching and being sober.

I am wearing the breastplate of faith and love.

I am wearing a helmet of the hope of salvation.

I am not appointed to wrath.

I am appointed to obtaining salvation through You.

I am encouraging others.

I am admonishing the disorderly.

I am encouraging the fainthearted.

I am supporting the weak.

I am patient toward everyone.

I am seeing that no one repays evil for evil.

I am seeking that which is good.

I am rejoicing always.

I am praying without ceasing.

I am giving thanks in everything.

I am not quenching God’s Spirit.

I am not despising prophesies.

I am testing everything and holding firmly to the good.

I am abstaining from every form of evil.

I am being sanctified completely.

I am being preserved in my whole spirit, soul, and body. I am full of Your grace.

[1] Thank You that I myself know, with my brothers and sisters, that Paul’s visit to the Thessalonians was not in vain. ²But having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as they knew at Philippi, thank You that Paul’s company grew bold in You to tell us Your Good News in much conflict.

[2] Jesus, I am grateful to know that it is Your will to make me holy, that I abstain from sexual immorality, ⁴that I know how to control my own body in sanctification and honor, ⁵not in self-gratification, even as the pagans who do not know You.

[3] But concerning the times and the dates of Your return, thank You that I do not need written instructions. ²For I am grateful to know well myself that Your day, O Lord, comes like a thief in the night. ³I am also thankful to know that when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then