¹ Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ:

Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

² We give thanks to God always for you all,

making mention of you in our prayers;

³ Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;

⁴ Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.

⁵ For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance;

as ye know

what manner of men we were among you for your sake.

⁶ And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord,

having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost.

⁷ So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.

⁸ 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.

⁹ For they themselves shew of us

what manner of entering in we had unto you,

and how ye turned to God from idols

to serve the living and true God;

¹⁰ 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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