1st Thess. 2:5-6 "For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloak of covetousness; God is witness: nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ." (TV evangelists) 1st Thess. 2:9 "For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail: for laboring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God." (tent-making) 1st Thess. 2:16 "For the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost." (prophesies regarding the Jews?) 1st Thess. 3:12 "And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men," 1st Thess. 4:6 "that no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter" (The stock market and corporate America) 1st Thess. 5:14 "Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the weak, be patient toward all men." 1st Thess. 5:22 "Abstain from all appearance of evil." |


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