1 Thessalonians 1:2-10 - Thanksgiving For The Thessalonian Believers

² We thank God always about all of you, making recollection of you in our prayers, ³ remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father. ⁴ Knowing, beloved brothers, your selection by God, ⁵ because the good-news from us happened to you not in word only, but also in power, and in Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, as ye know what kind of men we became among you, because of you. ⁶ And ye became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of Holy Spirit, ⁷ in order for you to become examples to all those who believe, in Macedonia and in Achaia. ⁸ For the word of the Lord has sounded forth from you, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone forth, so that we have no need to say anything. ⁹ For they report about us what kind of entrance we had with you, and how ye turned to God from the idols to serve a living and TRUE God, ¹⁰ and to await his Son from the heavens whom he raised from the dead--Jesus--who rescues us from the coming wrath.

³ We are indebted to thank God always about you, brothers, as it is fitting, because your faith is increasing greatly, and the love of each one of you all toward each other abounds. ⁴ So as for us ourselves to have pride in you in the congregations of God, for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the tribulations that ye endure, ⁵ being evidence of the righteous judgment of God, for you to be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which also ye suffer. ⁶ Since it is a righteous thing according to God to repay restriction to those who restrict you, ⁷ and relief with us, to you who are restricted, at the revealing of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his agents of power ⁸ in a fire of flame rendering vengeance to those who have not known God, and to those not obeying the good-news of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ Men who will suffer punishment, a penalty of eternal destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might, ¹⁰ when he comes to be glorified in his sanctified, and to be marveled in that day by all those who believe (because our testimony among you was believed). ¹¹ For which also we pray always about you, so that our God will make you worthy of the calling, and will fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power. ¹² So that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and Lord Jesus Christ.