1 Thessalonians 1:3-6 remembering unceasingly your work, which is the result of faith, your labor, the cause of which is love, and your patience, which springs from your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of our God and Father:

Anderson⁽ⁱ⁾ ³ remembering unceasingly your work, which is the result of faith, your labor, the cause of which is love, and your patience, which springs from your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of our God and Father: ⁴ be cause we know, brethren beloved of God, your election. ⁵ For our gospel came not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in full assurance, as you know what sort of persons we were among you for your sakes. ⁶ And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction with joy of the Holy Spirit,