2 We here are always thanking God for all of you and remembering you in our prayers—always 3 remembering before our God and father about your striving for the faith and the labour of love and the endurance of the hope in our master Yeshua (Jesus; Grk. Yesus) Messiah. 4 Brothers and sisters, we know that you’re all loved by God—the one who chose you. 5 The good message that we brought wasn’t just any old message, but also comes in the holy spirit with power and with full assurance of its truth. You know how we lived among you because of our concern for you all, 6 and then you all imitated both us and the master after receiving the message in tribulation with a lot of excitement about the holy spirit[ref]—7 so much so that you all became examples to all the believers in Makedonia and Akaia. 8 So now the message of the master has been heard not only in Makedonia and Akaia, but in every place where your faith towards God has been seen—so that now we don’t even need to say anything. 9 They’ve been reporting back to us about kindly we were accepted by you all and how you all turned from idols to God, to serve the living and true God 10 and waiting for his son, Yeshua to return from the heavens. Yeshua is the one that he brought back to life and who rescues us from God’s severe anger which is coming.