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    "chapter": 5
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    "bookSlug": "1-thessalonians",
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "1TH-5:1",
        "verseRef": "1TH.5.1",
        "text": "But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that aught be written unto you."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "1TH-5:2",
        "verseRef": "1TH.5.2",
        "text": "For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "1TH-5:3",
        "verseRef": "1TH.5.3",
        "text": "When they are saying, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall in no wise escape."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "1TH-5:4",
        "verseRef": "1TH.5.4",
        "text": "But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief:"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "1TH-5:5",
        "verseRef": "1TH.5.5",
        "text": "for ye are all sons of light, and sons of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness;"
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "1TH-5:6",
        "verseRef": "1TH.5.6",
        "text": "so then let us not sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "1TH-5:7",
        "verseRef": "1TH.5.7",
        "text": "For they that sleep sleep in the night: and they that are drunken are drunken in the night."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "1TH-5:8",
        "verseRef": "1TH.5.8",
        "text": "But let us, since we are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "1TH-5:9",
        "verseRef": "1TH.5.9",
        "text": "For God appointed us not into wrath, but unto the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,"
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "1TH-5:10",
        "verseRef": "1TH.5.10",
        "text": "who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "1TH-5:11",
        "verseRef": "1TH.5.11",
        "text": "Wherefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as also ye do."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "1TH-5:12",
        "verseRef": "1TH.5.12",
        "text": "But we beseech you, brethren, to know them that labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "1TH-5:13",
        "verseRef": "1TH.5.13",
        "text": "and to esteem them exceeding highly in love for their work`s sake. Be at peace among yourselves."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "1TH-5:14",
        "verseRef": "1TH.5.14",
        "text": "And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be longsuffering toward all."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "1TH-5:15",
        "verseRef": "1TH.5.15",
        "text": "See that none render unto any one evil for evil; but always follow after that which is good, one toward another, and toward all."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "1TH-5:16",
        "verseRef": "1TH.5.16",
        "text": "Rejoice always;"
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "1TH-5:17",
        "verseRef": "1TH.5.17",
        "text": "pray without ceasing;"
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "1TH-5:18",
        "verseRef": "1TH.5.18",
        "text": "in everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus to you-ward."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "1TH-5:19",
        "verseRef": "1TH.5.19",
        "text": "Quench not the Spirit;"
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "1TH-5:20",
        "verseRef": "1TH.5.20",
        "text": "despise not prophesyings;"
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "1TH-5:21",
        "verseRef": "1TH.5.21",
        "text": "prove all things; hold fast that which is good;"
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "1TH-5:22",
        "verseRef": "1TH.5.22",
        "text": "abstain from every form of evil."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "1TH-5:23",
        "verseRef": "1TH.5.23",
        "text": "And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved entire, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "1TH-5:24",
        "verseRef": "1TH.5.24",
        "text": "Faithful is he that calleth you, who will also do it."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "1TH-5:25",
        "verseRef": "1TH.5.25",
        "text": "Brethren, pray for us."
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "1TH-5:26",
        "verseRef": "1TH.5.26",
        "text": "Salute all the brethren with a holy kiss."
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "1TH-5:27",
        "verseRef": "1TH.5.27",
        "text": "I adjure you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the brethren."
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "1TH-5:28",
        "verseRef": "1TH.5.28",
        "text": "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you."
      }
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