1 Thessalonians 1:3-10 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;

Worrell⁽ⁱ⁾ 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; ⁴ knowing, brethren beloved by God, your election; ⁵ because our Gospel came not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance; even as ye know what manner of men we became toward you, for your sake. ⁶ And ye became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much tribulation with joy of the Holy Spirit; ⁷ so that ye became a model to all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia. 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 have no need to speak anything; ⁹ for they themselves report, concerning us, what manner of entrance we had to you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God, ¹⁰ and to wait for His Son from Heaven, Whom He raised from the dead, Jesus, Who delivers us from the coming wrath.