1 Thessalonians
Paul encourages a young church in affliction, calls them to holiness, and comforts them with the promise that the Lord himself will descend and the dead in Christ will rise.
Darby Translation
1 Thessalonians 1
1Paul and Silvanus and Timotheus to the assembly of Thessalonians inGod [the] Father and [the] Lord Jesus Christ. Grace to you and peace. 2We give thanks toGod always for you all, making mention of you at our prayers, 3remembering unceasingly your work of faith, and labour of love, and enduring constancy of hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, before ourGod and Father; 4knowing, brethren beloved byGod, your election. 5For 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: 6and ye became our imitators, and of the Lord, having accepted the word in much tribulation with joy of [the] Holy Spirit, 7so that ye became models to all that believe in Macedonia and in Achaia: 8for the word of the Lord sounded out from you, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith which [is] towardsGod has gone abroad, so that we have no need to say anything; 9for they themselves relate concerning us what entering in we had to you, and how ye turned toGod from idols to serve a living and trueGod, 10and to await his Son from the heavens, whom he raised from among the dead, Jesus, our deliverer from the coming wrath.
John Nelson Darby Translation (1890). Public domain or openly redistributable. Confirm the exact edition before public display if text is later imported.