1 Paul and Sil·va´nus and Timothy to the congregation of the Thes·sa·lo´ni·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 and [your] loving labor 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, 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·do´ni·a and in A·cha´ia.
8 The fact is, not only has the word of Yehowah sounded forth from you in Mac·e·do´ni·a and A·cha´ia, 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.
2013 © Copyright Free. We thank God continually because, when you received the word of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is at work in you who believe. Whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. We would rather put up with anything than be an obstacle to the Good News about Christ.