1Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the church of the Thessalonians [congregated] in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace [be] unto you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 2We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers, 3remembering without ceasing the work of your faith and labour and charity and of waiting with the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of our God and Father, 4being certain, beloved brethren, that you are chosen of God. 5For our gospel did not come unto you in word only, but also in power and in [the] Holy Spirit and in full assurance as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake. 6And ye were made imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word with much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Spirit: 7So that ye have become examples to all that have believed in Macedonia and Achaia. 8For through you the word of the Lord has been divulged not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith, which is in God, has become extended, so that we have no need to say anything. 9For they themselves tell of us what an entrance we had unto you and in what manner ye were converted to God from idols to serve the living and true God 10and to wait for his Son from the heavens, whom he raised from the dead, [even] Jesus, who delivered us from the wrath to come.: