1. Paul and Silvanus and Timothy -- unto the assembly of Thessalonians in God our Father and Lord Jesus Christ, -- favour unto you, and peace!
2. We are giving thanks unto God continually, concerning you all, making, mention, in our prayers,
3. Unceasingly, remembering -- your work of faith and labour of love and endurance of hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father:
4. Knowing, brethren beloved by God, your election, --
5. How that, our glad-message, came not unto you, in word only, but also in power, and in Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, -- even as ye know what manner of men we became unto you, for your sake;
6. And, ye, became, imitators of us, and of the Lord, giving welcome unto the word, in much tribulation, with joy of Holy Spirit;
7. So that ye became an ensample unto all who were coming to the faith, in Macedonia and in Achaia:
8. From you, in fact, hath sounded forth the word of the Lord -- not only m Macedonia and in Achaia, but, in every place, your faith which is toward God, hath gone forth, so that, no need, have we to be saying anything;
9. For, they themselves, concerning us, do tell -- what manner of entrance we had unto you, and how ye turned unto God from the idols -- to be serving a living and true God,
10. And awaiting his Son out of the heavens -- whom he raised from among the dead, -- Jesus: Who is to rescue us out of the anger that is coming.