Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, to the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;
Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
Knowing, brothers beloved, your election of God.
For our gospel came not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as you know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.
And you became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost.
So that you were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.
For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.
For they themselves show of us what manner of entering in we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;
And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
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Paul greets the Thessalonian church, thanks God for their work of faith, labor of love, and steadfast hope, and recalls how the gospel came to them in power and the Spirit. Their joyful endurance amid persecution made them examples throughout Macedonia and Achaia as they turned from idols to serve the living God and await His Son from heaven.
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