Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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1 From Paul, Silas, and Timothy—
1 To the people of the church in
Thessalonica, who belong to God the
Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
1 May grace and peace be yours. note
The Life and Faith of the Thessalonians
2 We always thank God for you all
and always mention you in our
prayers.
3 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 Our brothers, we
know that God loves you and has
chosen you to be his own.
5 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 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. note
7 So
you became an example to all
believers in Macedonia and Achaia.
8 For not only did the message about
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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 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 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.
Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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