Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace.

Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

So that you became an example to all those who have faith in Christ in Macedonia and Achaia.

Or looking for glory from men, from you or from others, when we might have made ourselves a care to you as Apostles of Christ.

For you, my brothers, took as your examples the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; because you underwent the same things from your countrymen as they did from the Jews;

We sent Timothy, our brother and God's servant in the good news of Christ, to give you strength and comfort in your faith;

Because the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a word of authority, with the voice of the chief angel, with the sound of a horn: and the dead in Christ will come to life first;

For God's purpose for us is not wrath, but salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

In everything give praise: for this is the purpose of God in Christ Jesus for you.

And may the God of peace himself make you holy in every way; and may your spirit and soul and body be free from all sin at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.