PAUL and Sylvanus and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians, which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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:

so that you were examples to all that believe, in Macedonia and Achaia.

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.

For this reason, also, we thank God without ceasing; be cause, when you received the word of God, as preached by us, you embraced it, not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually works in you that believe.

For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God in Judea which are in Christ Jesus; for you, also, have suffered the same things from your own countrymen, that they have suffered from the Jews,

For what thanks can we render to God for you, for the great joy with which we rejoice on your account before our God,

night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

Therefore, let us not sleep, as do others, but let us watch and be sober.

See that no one render evil for evil to any, but always pursue that which is good toward one another and toward all.

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.