1 Thessalonians 1

1Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, to the assembly of Thessalonians in God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!

1Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace.

2We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers,

2We give praise to God at all times for you, keeping you in memory in our prayers;

3unceasingly remembering of you the work of the faith, and the labour of the love, and the endurance of the hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father,

3Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

4having known, brethren beloved, by God, your election,

4Being conscious, my brothers, dear to God, that you have been marked out by God's purpose;

5because our good news did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, even as ye have known of what sort we became among you because of you,

5Because our good news came to you, not in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Spirit, so that you were completely certain of it; even as you saw what our behaviour to you was like from our love to you.

6and ye--ye did become imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

6And you took us and the Lord as your example, after the word had come to you in much trouble, with joy in the Holy Spirit;

7so that ye became patterns to all those believing in Macedonia and Achaia,

7So that you became an example to all those who have faith in Christ in Macedonia and Achaia.

8for from you hath sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God did go forth, so that we have no need to say anything,

8For not only was the word of the Lord sounding out from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith in God is made clear; so that we have no need to say anything.

9for they themselves concerning us do declare what entrance we had unto you, and how ye did turn unto God from the idols, to serve a living and true God,

9For they themselves give the news of how we came among you; and how you were turned from images to God, to the worship of a true and living God,

10and to wait for His Son from the heavens, whom He did raise out of the dead--Jesus, who is rescuing us from the anger that is coming.

10Waiting for his Son from heaven, who came back from the dead, even Jesus, our Saviour from the wrath to come.