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New Testament · Letters

1 Thessalonians chapter 1

From Paul, Silas, and Timothy—to the in Thessalonica who belong to God the Father and the Lord Jesus, : and to you.We always God for all of you, mentioning you every time we pray.We never stop remembering how your produces action, how your drives you to work hard, and how your in our Lord Jesus, The One, keeps you —all of this right in front of our God and Father.Brothers and sisters by God—we know he’s you.Because when we brought you the , it wasn’t just words. It came with , with the , and with . And you saw how we lived among you—everything we did was for your sake.You became people who —and the Lord’s example—by embracing the message in the middle of , with a that came from the Breath of God.The result? You became an for every believer in and .Starting from you, the Lord’s message —and not just in Macedonia and Achaia. Everywhere we go, people already know about your in God. We don’t even need to say anything about it.People themselves tell us about the kind of welcome you gave us when we arrived, and how you from to serve the .And now you’re for his Son to come back from the heavens—Jesus, the one God —who us from the .