❧The first Chapter.
3 He thanketh God for their fayth, loue, and pacience. 11 He prayeth for the encrease of the same. 12 And sheweth what fruite shall come therof.
[unspec A] 1 PAul and Siluanus and Timotheus, vnto the Church of the Thessa∣lonians in God our fa∣ther, and the Lord Ie∣sus Christe:
2 * 1.1Grace vnto you and peace from God our father, & the Lorde Iesus Christe.
3 We are bound to * 1.2 thanke God alwayes for you brethren, as it is meete, because that your fayth groweth exceedyngly, and the loue of euery one of you toward another aboundeth:
[unspec B] 4 So that we our selues reioyce in you in the Churches of God, ouer your (a) 1.3pacience and faith in all your persecu∣tions and tribulations that ye suffer,
5 [Which is] a (b) 1.4 token of the ryghteous iudgment of God, that ye may be coun∣ted woorthy of the kyngdome of God, for which ye also suffer.
6 For it is a ryghteous thing with God, to recompence tribulation to them that trouble you:
7 And to you whiche are troubled, reste [unspec C] with vs, in the reuelation of the Lorde Iesus from heauen, with the Angels of his power,
8 In flamyng fire, rendryng vengeance vnto them that knowe not God, * 1.5and that obey not the Gospell of our Lorde Iesus Christe.
9 * 1.6Which shalbe punisshed with euerla∣styng dampnation, from the presence of the Lorde, & frō the glorie of his power: [unspec D]
10 * 1.7When he shall come to be glorified in his saintes, and to be made marueylous in all them that beleue (because our testi∣monie toward you was beleued) in that day.
11 * 1.8Wherfore also we praye alwayes for you, that our God woulde make you worthy of the callyng, & fulfyll all good pleasure of goodnesse in the (c) 1.9 worke of fayth in power:
12 That the name of our Lorde Iesus Christe may be glorified in you, and ye in hym, accordyng to the grace of our God, and the Lorde Iesus Christe.