1. Paul and Silvanus and Timotheus to the assembly of Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace to you and peace.
2. We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you at our prayers,
3. remembering unceasingly your work of faith, and labour of love, and enduring constancy of hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;
4. knowing, brethren beloved by God, your election.
5. For our glad tidings were not with you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance; even as ye know what we were among you for your sakes:
6. and ye became our imitators, and of the Lord, having accepted the word in much tribulation with joy of the Holy Spirit,