1 Thessalonians 1:1–10

¹Paul and Sil‧va′nus and Timothy to the congregation of the Thes‧sa‧lo′ni‧ans in union with God the Father and [the] Lord Jesus Christ:

May ​YOU​ have undeserved kindness and peace.

²We always thank God when we make mention concerning all of ​YOU​ in our prayers,³for we bear incessantly in mind ​YOUR​ faithful work and [your] loving labor and [your] endurance due to [your] hope in our Lord Jesus Christ before our God and Father.⁴For we know, brothers loved by God, his choosing of ​YOU,⁵because the good news we preach did not turn up among ​YOU​ with speech alone but also with power and with holy spirit and strong conviction, just as ​YOU​ know what sort of men we became to ​YOU​ for ​YOUR​ sakes;⁶and ​YOU​ became imitators of us and of the Lord, seeing that ​YOU​ accepted the word under much tribulation with joy of holy spirit,⁷so that ​YOU​ came to be an example to all the believers in Mac‧e‧do′ni‧a and in A‧cha′ia.

⁸The fact is, not only has the word of Jehovah sounded forth from ​YOU​ in Mac‧e‧do′ni‧a and A‧cha′ia, but in every place ​YOUR​ faith toward God has spread abroad, so that we do not need to say anything.⁹For they themselves keep reporting about the way we first entered in among ​YOU​ and how ​YOU​ turned to God from [YOUR] idols to slave for a living and true God,¹⁰and to wait for his Son from the heavens, whom he raised up from the dead, namely, Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath which is coming.