¶ He thanketh God for them, that they are so stedfast in fayth and good workes, and receaue the Gopell with suche carnestnes.
CAPI. I.
PAul and Syluanus & [unspec D] Tymothe Unto the congrega∣cyon of the Thessalonyans in God the father and in the Lord Iesus Chryst.
* 1.1 Grace be vnto you, and peace from God oure father, and from the Lorde Iesus Chryste. We geue God thanckes ‡ 1.2 alwaye for you all, makynge mencion of you in our prayers without ceasynge, and call you to remembraunce because of the worcke of faithe, and laboure in* 1.3 loue, and because ye haue contynued in the hope* 1.4 of oure Lorde Iesus Christe, in the syght of God oure fa∣ther. ✚ we knowe brethren) beloued of God) [unspec B] howe that ye are electe. For oure Gospell came not vnto you by * 1.5 worde onely, but al∣so by power, and by the holy gooste, and by much certayntye, as * 1.6 ye knowe, after what maner we behaued our selues among you, for youre sake. And ye became folowers of [unspec C] vs and of the Lorde receauynge the worde with muche afliccyon, with ioye of the holy goost: so that ye were an ensample to all that beleue in Macedonia and Achaia. For from you sounded out the worde of the Lorde, not in Macedonia and in Achaia onely: but youre faythe also whiche ye haue vnto God, spred her selfe abroade in all quarters, so that it nedeth not vs to speake any thynge at all. For they them selues [unspec D] shewe of you, what maner of entryng in we had vnto you and how ye tourned to God from ymages, for to serue the lyuynge and true god, and for to loke for hys sone, ‡ 1.7 from heauen, whome he raysed from deeth: ⊢ euen Iesus, which delyuereth vs from ‡ 1.8 the wrath to come.