The Bible in Basic English BBE
Good News Translation GNT
1 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.
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From Paul, Silas, and Timothy - To the people of the church in Thessalonica, who belong to God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: May grace and peace be yours.
2 We give praise to God at all times for you, keeping you in memory in our prayers;
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We always thank God for you all and always mention you in our prayers.
3 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;
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For we remember before our God and Father how you put your faith into practice, how your love made you work so hard, and how your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ is firm.
4 Being conscious, my brothers, dear to God, that you have been marked out by God's purpose;
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Our friends, we know that God loves you and has chosen you to be his own.
5 Because our good news came to you, not in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Spirit, so that you were completely certain of it; even as you saw what our behaviour to you was like from our love to you.
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For we brought the Good News to you, not with words only, but also with power and the Holy Spirit, and with complete conviction of its truth. You know how we lived when we were with you; it was for your own good.
6 And you took us and the Lord as your example, after the word had come to you in much trouble, with joy in the Holy Spirit;
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You imitated us and the Lord; and even though you suffered much, you received the message with the joy that comes from the Holy Spirit.
7 So that you became an example to all those who have faith in Christ in Macedonia and Achaia.
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So you became an example to all believers in Macedonia and Achaia.
8 For not only was the word of the Lord sounding out from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith in God is made clear; so that we have no need to say anything.
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For not only did the message about the Lord go out from you throughout Macedonia and Achaia, but the news about your faith in God has gone everywhere. There is nothing, then, that we need to say.
9 For they themselves give the news of how we came among you; and how you were turned from images to God, to the worship of a true and living God,
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All those people speak about how you received us when we visited you, and how you turned away from idols to God, to serve the true and living God
10 Waiting for his Son from heaven, who came back from the dead, even Jesus, our Saviour from the wrath to come.
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and to wait for his Son to come from heaven - his Son Jesus, whom he raised from death and who rescues us from God's anger that is coming.
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Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.