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

² We give thanks to God at all times 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 hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father; ⁴ knowing, brethren beloved by God, your election; ⁵ because our Gospel came not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance; even as ye know what manner of men we became toward you, for your sake. ⁶ And ye became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much tribulation with joy of the Holy Spirit; ⁷ so that ye became a model to all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia. ⁸ For from you has sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith toward God has gone forth; so that we have no need to speak anything; ⁹ for they themselves report, concerning us, what manner of entrance we had to you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve a 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 coming wrath.

³ We ought to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because your faith is growing exceedingly, and the love of each one of you abounds toward one another; ⁴ so that we ourselves glory in you in the assemblies of God, for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations which ye endure; ⁵ a proof of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that ye may be accounted worthy of the Kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer; ⁶ since it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to those who cause you tribulation; ⁷ and to you who suffer tribulation, relief with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from Heaven with the angels of His power, in flaming fire, ⁸ awarding vengeance to those who know not God, and to those who obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus; ⁹ who, indeed, shall pay a penalty, eternal destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His might, ¹⁰ when He shall come to be glorified in His saints, and to be marveled at in all who believed (because our testimony to you was believed), in that day. ¹¹ To which end we also pray for you always, that our God may account you worthy of your calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and work of faith, with power; ¹² that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and ye in Him, according to the grace of our God and Lord Jesus Christ.