And on account of this we also give thanks to God incessantly, because, receiving the word of God from us by hearing, you received it not as the word of men, but, as it truly is, the word of God, who indeed works in you who believe.

For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Jesus Christ: because you suffered the same things from your fellow tribes, as they also from the Jews;

and the Lord fill you and cause you to superabound in divine love toward one another, and toward all, even as we also do towards you;

For if we believe that Jesus died and is risen, so also will God bring with him those who sleep in Jesus.