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Often appears with: sexuality and desire · sexual immorality · sanctification · resurrection of the dead · justice as a virtue · funeral rites and burial
Usually: argument (1) · confronting death (1) · exhortation (1) · lament (1)
Paul urges the Thessalonians to pray, grow in holiness and brotherly love, avoid sexual immorality and exploitative bargaining, and comfort the grieving with the hope of Christ’s return and the resurrection.
joy for your sakes before our God, while we night and day pray exceedingly, that we might see you presently, and might fulfil that which is lacking in your faith. God himself our father, and our lord Iesus Christ guide our journey unto you: and the lord increase you, and make you flow over in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you, to stablish your hearts that they might be without oug…