CHAP. I.
He gives thanks for the graces bestowed on the Thessalonians.
1 Paul, and Silvanus,
and Timothy to the
church of the Thessalonians,
in God the Father,
and in the Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Grace be to you and
peace. We give thanks to
God always for you all; making
a remembrance of you
in our prayers without ceasing,
3 Being mindful of the
work of your faith, and labour,
and charity, and of the
enduring of the hope of our
Lord Jesus Christ, before God
and our Father:
4 Knowing, brethren beloved
of God, your election:
5 For our gospel hath not
been to you in word only,
but in power also, and in the
Holy Ghost, and in much
fulness, as you know what
manner of men we have been
among you for your sakes.
6 And you became followers
of us, and of the Lord;
receiving the word in much
tribulation, with joy of the
Holy Ghost:
7 So that you were made
a pattern to all that believe in
Macedonia and in Achaia.
8 For from you was spread
abroad the word of the Lord,
not only in Macedonia and
in Achaia, but also in every
place, your faith which is towards
God, is gone forth, so
that we need not to speak any
thing.
9 For they themselves relate
of us, what manner of
entring in we had unto you;
and how you turned to God
from idols, to serve the living
and true God,
10 And to wait for his Son
from heaven (whom he raised
up from the dead) Jesus,
who hath delivered us from
the wrath to come.
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Challoner [1752], THE NEW TESTAMENT OF Our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated out of the Latin Vulgat Diligently compared with the original Greek And first published by the English College of Rhemes, anno 1582. Newly revised, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. WITH ANNOTATIONS For clearing up modern Controversies in Religion, and other Difficulties of Holy Writ () [word count] [B12000].
