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| 1st-Thessalonians 1:1 | Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the assembly of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. | Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace. |
| 1st-Thessalonians 1:2 | We always give thanks to God for all of you, mentioning you in our prayers, | We give praise to God at all times for you, keeping you in memory in our prayers; |
| 1st-Thessalonians 1:3 | remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father. | Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father; |
| 1st-Thessalonians 1:4 | We know, brothers loved by God, that you are chosen, | Being conscious, my brothers, dear to God, that you have been marked out by God's purpose; |
| 1st-Thessalonians 1:5 | and that our gospel came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake. | Because our good news came to you, not in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Spirit, so that you were completely certain of it; even as you saw what our behaviour to you was like from our love to you. |
| 1st-Thessalonians 1:6 | You became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit, | And you took us and the Lord as your example, after the word had come to you in much trouble, with joy in the Holy Spirit; |
| 1st-Thessalonians 1:7 | so that you became an example to all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia. | So that you became an example to all those who have faith in Christ in Macedonia and Achaia. |
| 1st-Thessalonians 1:8 | For from you has sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith toward God has gone forth; so that we need not to say anything. | For not only was the word of the Lord sounding out from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith in God is made clear; so that we have no need to say anything. |
| 1st-Thessalonians 1:9 | For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you; and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God, | For they themselves give the news of how we came among you; and how you were turned from images to God, to the worship of a true and living God, |
| 1st-Thessalonians 1:10 | and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come. | Waiting for his Son from heaven, who came back from the dead, even Jesus, our Saviour from the wrath to come. |
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