The First to the Thessalonians, 1

¹ Paul and Sil·vaʹnus^*1 and Timothy to the congregation of the Thes·sa·loʹni·ans in union with God the Father and [the] Lord Jesus Christ: May YOU have undeserved kindness and peace.

² We always thank God when we make mention concerning all of YOU in our prayers,

³ for we bear incessantly in mind YOUR faithful work^*1 and [your] loving labor^*2 and [your] endurance due to [your] hope in our Lord Jesus Christ before our God and Father.

⁴ For we know, brothers loved by God, his choosing of YOU,

⁵ because the good news we preach did not turn up among YOU with speech alone but also with power and with holy spirit and strong conviction,^*1 just as YOU know what sort of men we became to YOU for YOUR sakes;

⁶ and YOU became imitators of us and of the Lord, seeing that YOU accepted the word under much tribulation with joy of holy spirit,

⁷ so that YOU came to be an example to all the believers in Mac·e·doʹni·a and in A·chaʹia.^*1

⁸ The fact is, not only has the word of Jehovah^*1 sounded forth from YOU in Mac·e·doʹni·a and A·chaʹia, but in every place YOUR faith toward God has spread abroad, so that we do not need to say anything.

⁹ For they themselves keep reporting about the way we first entered in among YOU and how YOU turned to God from [YOUR] idols to slave for a living and true God,

¹⁰ and to wait for his Son from the heavens, whom he raised up from the dead, namely, Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath which is coming.