 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.
 1:2  We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention
of you in our prayers;
 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;
 1:4  Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.
 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.
 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:
 1:7  So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in
Macedonia and Achaia.
 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.
 1:9  For they themselves show 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;
 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.
