1 Thessalonians 1

Chapter 1

Paul and Sylvanus and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians: in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ.

²Grace be to you and peace. We give thanks to God always for you all: making a remembrance of you in our prayers without ceasing,

³Being mindful of the work of your faith and labour and charity: and of the enduring of the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before God and our Father.

⁴Knowing, brethren, beloved of God, your election:

⁵For our gospel hath not been unto you in word only, but in power also: and in the Holy Ghost and in much fulness, as you know what manner of men we have been among you for your sakes.

⁶And you became followers of us and of the Lord: receiving the word in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Ghost:

⁷So that you were made a pattern to all that believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.

⁸For from you was spread abroad the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and in Achaia but also in every place: your faith which is towards God, is gone forth, so that we need not to speak any thing.

⁹For they themselves relate of us, what manner of entering in we had unto you: and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God.

¹⁰And to wait for his Son from heaven (whom he raised up from the dead), Jesus, who hath delivered us from the wrath to come.