1 Thessalonians 1 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.

Godbey⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ 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. ² We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention in our prayers; ³ incessantly remembering your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, before God even our Father; ⁴ knowing, brethren beloved of God, your election, ⁵ because our gospel came not unto you in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as you know what sort we were among you for your sakes. ⁶ And you became imitators of us, and the Lord, having received the word in much tribulation, with the joy of the Holy Ghost; ⁷ so that you are an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia. ⁸ For from you the word of the Lord echoed out, not only in Macedonia and in Achaia, but in every place your faith which is towards God has gone forth; so that we have no need to say any thing: ⁹ for they proclaim concerning what kind of reception we had unto you; and how you turned to God from the idols, to serve the true and the living God, ¹⁰ and to await his Son out of the heavens, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus the one delivering us from the wrath to come.