[ { "book_id": "1TH", "book_name": "1 Thessalonians", "book_name_alt": "1 Thessalonians", "chapter": 5, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 1, "verse_start_alt": "1", "verse_end": 1, "verse_end_alt": "1", "verse_text": "Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you." }, { "book_id": "1TH", "book_name": "1 Thessalonians", "book_name_alt": "1 Thessalonians", "chapter": 5, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 2, "verse_start_alt": "2", "verse_end": 2, "verse_end_alt": "2", "verse_text": "For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night." }, { "book_id": "1TH", "book_name": "1 Thessalonians", "book_name_alt": "1 Thessalonians", "chapter": 5, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 3, "verse_start_alt": "3", "verse_end": 3, "verse_end_alt": "3", "verse_text": "While people are saying, \u201cThere is peace and security,\u201d then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape." }, { "book_id": "1TH", "book_name": "1 Thessalonians", "book_name_alt": "1 Thessalonians", "chapter": 5, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 4, "verse_start_alt": "4", "verse_end": 4, "verse_end_alt": "4", "verse_text": "But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief." }, { "book_id": "1TH", "book_name": "1 Thessalonians", "book_name_alt": "1 Thessalonians", "chapter": 5, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 5, "verse_start_alt": "5", "verse_end": 5, "verse_end_alt": "5", "verse_text": "For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness." }, { "book_id": "1TH", "book_name": "1 Thessalonians", "book_name_alt": "1 Thessalonians", "chapter": 5, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 6, "verse_start_alt": "6", "verse_end": 6, "verse_end_alt": "6", "verse_text": "So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober." }, { "book_id": "1TH", "book_name": "1 Thessalonians", "book_name_alt": "1 Thessalonians", "chapter": 5, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 7, "verse_start_alt": "7", "verse_end": 7, "verse_end_alt": "7", "verse_text": "For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night." }, { "book_id": "1TH", "book_name": "1 Thessalonians", "book_name_alt": "1 Thessalonians", "chapter": 5, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 8, "verse_start_alt": "8", "verse_end": 8, "verse_end_alt": "8", "verse_text": "But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation." }, { "book_id": "1TH", "book_name": "1 Thessalonians", "book_name_alt": "1 Thessalonians", "chapter": 5, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 9, "verse_start_alt": "9", "verse_end": 9, "verse_end_alt": "9", "verse_text": "For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ," }, { "book_id": "1TH", "book_name": "1 Thessalonians", "book_name_alt": "1 Thessalonians", "chapter": 5, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 10, "verse_start_alt": "10", "verse_end": 10, "verse_end_alt": "10", "verse_text": "who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with him." }, { "book_id": "1TH", "book_name": "1 Thessalonians", "book_name_alt": "1 Thessalonians", "chapter": 5, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 11, "verse_start_alt": "11", "verse_end": 11, "verse_end_alt": "11", "verse_text": "Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing." }, { "book_id": "1TH", "book_name": "1 Thessalonians", "book_name_alt": "1 Thessalonians", "chapter": 5, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 12, "verse_start_alt": "12", "verse_end": 12, "verse_end_alt": "12", "verse_text": "We ask you, brothers, to respect those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you," }, { "book_id": "1TH", "book_name": "1 Thessalonians", "book_name_alt": "1 Thessalonians", "chapter": 5, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 13, "verse_start_alt": "13", "verse_end": 13, "verse_end_alt": "13", "verse_text": "and to esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves." }, { "book_id": "1TH", "book_name": "1 Thessalonians", "book_name_alt": "1 Thessalonians", "chapter": 5, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 14, "verse_start_alt": "14", "verse_end": 14, "verse_end_alt": "14", "verse_text": "And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all." }, { "book_id": "1TH", "book_name": "1 Thessalonians", "book_name_alt": "1 Thessalonians", "chapter": 5, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 15, "verse_start_alt": "15", "verse_end": 15, "verse_end_alt": "15", "verse_text": "See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone." }, { "book_id": "1TH", "book_name": "1 Thessalonians", "book_name_alt": "1 Thessalonians", "chapter": 5, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 16, "verse_start_alt": "16", "verse_end": 16, "verse_end_alt": "16", "verse_text": "Rejoice always," }, { "book_id": "1TH", "book_name": "1 Thessalonians", "book_name_alt": "1 Thessalonians", "chapter": 5, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 17, "verse_start_alt": "17", "verse_end": 17, "verse_end_alt": "17", "verse_text": "pray without ceasing," }, { "book_id": "1TH", "book_name": "1 Thessalonians", "book_name_alt": "1 Thessalonians", "chapter": 5, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 18, "verse_start_alt": "18", "verse_end": 18, "verse_end_alt": "18", "verse_text": "give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you." }, { "book_id": "1TH", "book_name": "1 Thessalonians", "book_name_alt": "1 Thessalonians", "chapter": 5, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 19, "verse_start_alt": "19", "verse_end": 19, "verse_end_alt": "19", "verse_text": "Do not quench the Spirit." }, { "book_id": "1TH", "book_name": "1 Thessalonians", "book_name_alt": "1 Thessalonians", "chapter": 5, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 20, "verse_start_alt": "20", "verse_end": 20, "verse_end_alt": "20", "verse_text": "Do not despise prophecies," }, { "book_id": "1TH", "book_name": "1 Thessalonians", "book_name_alt": "1 Thessalonians", "chapter": 5, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 21, "verse_start_alt": "21", "verse_end": 21, "verse_end_alt": "21", "verse_text": "but test everything; hold fast what is good." }, { "book_id": "1TH", "book_name": "1 Thessalonians", "book_name_alt": "1 Thessalonians", "chapter": 5, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 22, "verse_start_alt": "22", "verse_end": 22, "verse_end_alt": "22", "verse_text": "Abstain from every form of evil." }, { "book_id": "1TH", "book_name": "1 Thessalonians", "book_name_alt": "1 Thessalonians", "chapter": 5, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 23, "verse_start_alt": "23", "verse_end": 23, "verse_end_alt": "23", "verse_text": "Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." }, { "book_id": "1TH", "book_name": "1 Thessalonians", "book_name_alt": "1 Thessalonians", "chapter": 5, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 24, "verse_start_alt": "24", "verse_end": 24, "verse_end_alt": "24", "verse_text": "He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it." }, { "book_id": "1TH", "book_name": "1 Thessalonians", "book_name_alt": "1 Thessalonians", "chapter": 5, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 25, "verse_start_alt": "25", "verse_end": 25, "verse_end_alt": "25", "verse_text": "Brothers, pray for us." }, { "book_id": "1TH", "book_name": "1 Thessalonians", "book_name_alt": "1 Thessalonians", "chapter": 5, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 26, "verse_start_alt": "26", "verse_end": 26, "verse_end_alt": "26", "verse_text": "Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss." }, { "book_id": "1TH", "book_name": "1 Thessalonians", "book_name_alt": "1 Thessalonians", "chapter": 5, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 27, "verse_start_alt": "27", "verse_end": 27, "verse_end_alt": "27", "verse_text": "I put you under oath before the Lord to have this letter read to all the brothers." }, { "book_id": "1TH", "book_name": "1 Thessalonians", "book_name_alt": "1 Thessalonians", "chapter": 5, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 28, "verse_start_alt": "28", "verse_end": 28, "verse_end_alt": "28", "verse_text": "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you." } ]