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1 Thessalonians

1 Thessalonians 1:4 (also 2:1,2:9, 2:14, 3:7, 4:1, 4:13, 5:1, 5:4, 5:12, 5:14, 5:25, 5:27)
TNIV: "For we know, brothers and sisters loved by God, that he has chosen you,..."

TNIV NT (2001): "For we know, brothers and sisters loved by God, that he has chosen you,..."
Nestle 27: eidoteV, adelfoi hgaphmenoi upo [tou] qeou thn ekloghn umwn
ESV: "For we know, brothers loved by God, that he has chosen you,..."

HCSB: "...knowing your election, brothers loved by God."
KJV: "Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God."
NASB95: "...knowing, brethren beloved by God, His choice of you;..."
NIV: "For we know, brothers loved by God, that he has chosen you,..."
NKJV: "...knowing, beloved brethren, your election by God."
NLT: "We know that God loves you, dear brothers and sisters, and that he chose you to be his own people."
NRSV: "For we know, brothers and sisters beloved by God, that he has chosen you,..."
RSV: "For we know, brethren beloved by God, that he has chosen you;..."

1 Thessalonians 2:4
TNIV: "We are not trying to please people but God, who tests our hearts."

TNIV NT (2001): "We are not trying to please people but God, who tests our hearts."
Nestle 27: ouk wV anqrwpoiV areskonteV alla qew tw dokimazonti taV kardiaV hmwn
ESV: "...so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts."

HCSB: "...not to please men, but rather God, who examines our hearts."
KJV: "...not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts."
NASB95: "...not as pleasing men, but God who examines our hearts."
NIV: "We are not trying to please men but God, who tests our hearts."
NKJV: "...not as pleasing men, but God who tests our hearts."
NLT: "Our purpose is to please God, not people. He is the one who examines the motives of our hearts."
NRSV: "...not to please mortals, but to please God who tests our hearts."
RSV: "...not to please men, but to please God who tests our hearts."

1 Thessalonians 2:13
TNIV: "...when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word,..."

TNIV NT (2001): "...when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word,..."
Nestle 27: oti paralabonteV logon akohV par hmwn tou qeou edexasqe ou logon anqrwpwn
ESV: "...when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men..."

HCSB: "...because when you received the message about God that you heard from us, you welcomed it not as a human message,..."
KJV: "...when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men,..."
NASB95: "...when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men,..."
NIV: "...when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men,..."
NKJV: "...because when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word of men,..."
NLT: "...when we preached his message to you, you didn’t think of the words we spoke as being just our own."
NRSV: "...that when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word..."
RSV: "...that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men..."

1 Thessalonians 4:4
TNIV: "...that each of you should learn to control your own body..." Footnote: "Or learn to live with his own wife; or learn to acquire a wife"

TNIV NT (2001): "...that each of you should learn to control your own body..." Footnote: "Or learn to live with his own wife; or learn to acquire a wife"
Nestle 27: eidenai ekaston umwn to eautou skeuoV ktasqai
ESV: "...that each one of you know how to control his own body..." Footnote: "Or how to take a wife for himself; Greek how to possess his own vessel"

HCSB: "...so that each of you knows how to possess his own vessel..."
KJV: "That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel..."
NASB95: "...that each of you know how to possess his own vessel..."
NIV: "...that each of you should learn to control his own body..."
NKJV: "...that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel..."
NLT: "Then each of you will control your body..."
NRSV: "...that each one of you know how to control your own body..."
RSV: "...that each one of you know how to take a wife for himself..."

1 Thessalonians 4:6
TNIV: "...and that in this matter no one should wrong or take advantage of a brother or sister."

TNIV NT (2001): "...and that in this matter no one should wrong or take advantage of a brother or sister."

Nestle 27: to mh uperbainein kai pleonektein en tw pragmati ton adelfon autou
ESV: "...that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter,..."

HCSB: "This means one must not transgress against and defraud his brother in this matter,..."
KJV: "That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter:..."
NASB95: "...and that no man transgress and defraud his brother in the matter..."
NIV: "...and that in this matter no-one should wrong his brother or take advantage of him."
NKJV: "...that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter,..."
NLT: "Never cheat a Christian brother in this matter by taking his wife,..."
NRSV: "...that no one wrong or exploit a brother or sister in this matter,..."
RSV: "...that no man transgress, and wrong his brother in this matter,..."

1 Thessalonians 4:8

TNIV: "Therefore, anyone who rejects this instruction does not reject a human being but God,..."

TNIV NT (2001): "Therefore, anyone who rejects this instruction does not reject a human being but God,..."
Nestle 27: toigaroun o aqetwn ouk anqrwpon aqetei alla ton qeon
ESV: "Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God,..."

HCSB: "Therefore, the person who rejects this does not reject man, but God..."
KJV: "He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God,..."
NASB95: "So, he who rejects this is not rejecting man but the God..."
NIV: "Therefore, he who rejects this instruction does not reject man but God,..."
NKJV: "Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God,..."
NLT: "Anyone who refuses to live by these rules is not disobeying human rules but is rejecting God,..."
NRSV: "Therefore whoever rejects this rejects not human authority but God,.."
RSV: "Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God,..."

1 Thessalonians 5:3
TNIV: "...as labor pains on a pregnant woman,..."

TNIV NT (2001): "...as labor pains on a pregnant woman,..."
Nestle 27: wsper h wdin tn en gastri ecoush
ESV: "...as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman,..."

HCSB: "...like labor pains on a pregnant woman,..."
KJV: "...as travail upon a woman with child;..."
NASB95: "...like labor pains upon a woman with child,..."
NIV: "...as labour pains on a pregnant woman,..."
NKJV: "...as labor pains upon a pregnant woman."
NLT: "...as suddenly as a woman’s birth pains begin when her child is about to be born."
NRSV: "...as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman,..."
RSV: "...as travail comes upon a woman with child,..."

1 Thessalonians 5:14
TNIV: “And we urge you, brothers and sister, warn those who are idle and disruptive,...”

TNIV NT (2001): “And we urge you, brothers and sister, warn those who are idle and disruptive,...”
Nestle 27: parakaloumen de umaV adelfoi nouqeite touV ataktouV
ESV: “And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle,...”

HCSB: "And we exhort you, brothers: warn those who are lazy,..."
KJV: “Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly,...”
NASB95: “We urge you, brethren, admonish the unruly,...”
NIV: “And we urge you, brothers, warn those who are idle,...”
NKJV: “Now we exhort you, brethren, warn those who are unruly,...”
NLT: “Brothers and sisters, we urge you to warn those who are lazy.”
NRSV: “And we urge you, beloved, to admonish the idlers,...”
RSV: “And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the idle,...”

1 Thessalonians 5:22
TNIV: "...reject whatever is harmful."

TNIV NT (2001): "...reject whatever is harmful."
Nestle 27: apo pantoV eidouV ponhrou apecesqe
ESV: "Abstain from every form of evil."

HCSB: "Stay away from every form of evil."
KJV: "Abstain from all appearance of evil."
NASB95: "...abstain from every form of evil."
NIV: "Avoid every kind of evil."
NKJV: "Abstain from every form of evil."
NLT: "Keep away from every kind of evil."
NRSV: "...abstain from every form of evil."
RSV: "...abstain from every form of evil."

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