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

² We thank God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers, ³ remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before God even our Father, ⁴ knowing, brothers beloved by God, your election, ⁵ that our gospel came not to you in word only, but with power and with the Holy Spirit and with full assurance, as you know what we were among you for your sakes. ⁶ And you became followers of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction with the joy of the Holy Spirit, ⁷ so that you became an example to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia. ⁸ For from you the word of the Lord was proclaimed not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith with respect to God went into every place, so that we had no need to say any thing; ⁹ for they declare of us what introduction we had to you, and how you turned from idols to God, to serve the living and true God, ¹⁰ and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

³ We ought to thank God always for you, brothers, as is fit, because your faith increases greatly, and the love of every one of you all one for another abounds, ⁴ so that we boast of you in the churches of God, of your patience and faith, in all your persecutions and the afflictions which you endure, ⁵ a token of the righteous judgment of God that you should be deemed worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer, ⁶ since it is just with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you, ⁷ and to you who are afflicted rest with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his mighty angels ⁸ in a flame of fire, executing judgment on all that know not God and obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus; ⁹ who shall suffer the punishment of eternal destruction 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 by all that believe in that day, for our testimony was believed by you. ¹¹ For which also we pray always for you, that our God will account you worthy of the calling, and accomplish all the good pleasure of [his] goodness and the work of faith with power; ¹² that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.