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1 Thessalonians 1

New International Reader's Version NIRV

1 I, Paul, am writing this letter. Silas and Timothy join me in writing. We are sending this letter to you, the members of the church in Thessalonica. You belong to God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. May grace and peace be given to you.

2 We always thank God for all of you. We pray for you.

3 We never forget you when we pray to our God and Father. Your work is produced by your faith. Your service is the result of your love. Your strength to continue comes from your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

4 Brothers and sisters, you are loved by God. We know that he has chosen you.

5 Our good news didn't come to you only in words. It came with power. It came with the Holy Spirit's help. He gave us complete faith in what we were preaching. You know how we lived among you for your good.

6 We and the Lord were your examples. You followed us. You suffered terribly. Even so, you welcomed our message with the joy the Holy Spirit gives.

7 So you became a model to all the believers in the lands of Macedonia and Achaia.

8 The Lord's message rang out from you. That was true not only in Macedonia and Achaia. Your faith in God has also become known everywhere. So we don't have to say anything about it.

9 The believers themselves report the kind of welcome you gave us. They tell about how you turned away from statues of gods to serve the living and true God.

10 They tell about how you are waiting for his Son to come from heaven. God raised him from the dead. He is Jesus. He saves us from God's anger, and his anger is sure to come.

Wycliffe WYC

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

2 We do thankings to God evermore for all you, and we make mind of you in our prayers without ceasing;

3 having mind of the work of your faith, and travail, and charity [mindful of your work of faith, and travail, and charity], and abiding of the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, before God and our Father.

4 Ye beloved brethren of God, we witting your choosing,

5 for our gospel was not at you in word only, but also in virtue, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much plenty; as ye know, which we were among you for you;

6 and ye be made followers of us, and of the Lord, receiving the word in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Ghost;

7 so that ye be made ensample to all men that believe, in Macedonia and in Achaia.

8 For of you the word of the Lord is published, (or much told,) not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith that is to God, in each place is gone forth [but in each place your faith that is to God is gone forth]; so that it is not need to us to speak any thing.

9 For they show of you, what manner entry we had to you, and how ye be converted to God from maumets, (or simulacra,) to serve to the living God and very;

10 and to abide his Son from heavens, whom he raised from death, the Lord Jesus, that delivered us from wrath to coming [that delivered us from wrath to come].