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

² We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers, ³ remembering unceasingly your work, which is the result of faith, your labor, the cause of which is love, and your patience, which springs from your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of our God and Father: ⁴ be cause we know, brethren beloved of God, your election. ⁵ For our gospel came not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in full assurance, as you know what sort of persons we were among you for your sakes. ⁶ And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction with joy of the Holy Spirit, ⁷ so that you were examples to all that believe, in Macedonia and Achaia. ⁸ For from you, the word of the Lord sounded out, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also your faith in God has gone abroad in every place, so that we have no need to speak any thing. ⁹ For they themselves declare concerning us what kind of entrance we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God, ¹⁰ and to wait for his Son from heaven, even Jesus, whom he raised from the dead, and who delivers us from the coming wrath.

³ We are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as it is right, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all toward each other abounds: ⁴ so that we ourselves glory in you, among the churches of God, for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and afflictions which you endure; ⁵ which endurance, of yours is a proof of the righteous judgment of God, in order that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you suffer: ⁶ since, indeed, it is a righteous thing with God, to repay affliction to those who afflict you, ⁷ and to you that are afflicted, rest with us, at the revelation of our Lord Jesus from heaven with his mighty angels, ⁸ in flaming fire, to take vengeance on those who know not God, and who obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ; ⁹ these shall suffer punishment in that day, even eternal destruction, far from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power, ¹⁰ when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all those who believe, and in you also, because our testimony among you was believed. ¹¹ In order to which, we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of this calling, and may fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power, ¹² that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God, and the Lord Jesus Christ.