| 1:1
| Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians
which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be unto
you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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| 1:2
| We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our
prayers;
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| 1:3
| Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and
patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our
Father;
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| 1:4
| Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.
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| 1:5
| For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in
the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we
were among you for your sake.
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| 1:6
| And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word
in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:
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| 1:7
| So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.
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| 1:8
| For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and
Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad;
so that we need not to speak any thing.
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| 1:9
| For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto
you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;
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| 1:10
| And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even
Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
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