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1 I, Paul, write this letter to you, and Silas and Timothy are with me. I send this letter to you, the group of believers in the city of Thessalonica. God the Father has united you to himself and to the Lord Jesus the Messiah. May God continue to be kind to you and make you peaceful.
2 We pray for you persistently. When we do, we consistently thank God for all of you. 3 We thank our God and Father for what you do because you trust in him. We thank him for the way that you help people because you love them. We thank him for the way that you patiently endure because you confidently expect our Lord Jesus the Messiah to come again. 4 We thank God because we know that he chose you, fellow believers whom God loves. 5 We know that God chose you, because when we told you the good news, we did not just say words. Rather, the Holy Spirit also powerfully worked through us, and we were sure that the good news was true. In the same way, you remember how we acted to help you when we were with you. 6 As for you, you acted as we do and as the Lord Jesus did. Specifically, when you believed the good news, you suffered greatly, but the Holy Spirit caused you to rejoice. 7 Because you acted in those ways, all the believers in the provinces of Macedonia and Achaia want to act as you do. 8 In fact, many people who live in the provinces of Macedonia and Achaia have heard the message about the Lord Jesus because of you. Even more, people in very many places have heard about how you trust in God. As a result, we do not need to tell people anything about what God has done for you. 9 Indeed, those same people tell others about how well it went when we visited you. They say that you stopped caring about other gods and began to focus on God so that you could worship and obey him, the only real God. 10 Further, they say that you focused on God so that you could eagerly anticipate when God’s Son will come back from where he is in heaven. God made Jesus alive again, and Jesus is the one who will save us who believe in him at the time when God will punish people for their sins.