Paul and Syluanus and Timethe. Unto the congregacion of the Thessolonians, in God the father, and in the Lorde Iesus Christe. Grace be vnto you, and peace from God our father, and from the Lorde Iesus Christe. We geue God thankes alwaye for you all, makyng mencion of you in our prayers without ceasyng, and call you to remembraūce be∣cause of the worke of your fayth and labour in loue, and because ye haue continued in the hope of our Lorde Iesus Christe, in the sight of God our father.
PAul and Siluanus and Tymothe, vnto the congregacion of the Thessalonians, cōsenting together in God the father and in our Lorde Iesus Christe: wishe vnto you grace and peace. We reioyce, as it is conuenient we should, for your good forewardenesse, and rendre thankes alwayes vnto God, making mencion of all you, on the behalfe of you all, as often as we talke with God in holy supplicacions, in that, it can neuer be out of our myndes, how diligently you trauayled to defend the profession of your fayth: than what exceding labour you toke for the loue, that you beare vnto the preachers of the gospel: how māful∣ly and without shrinking you abode al thinges, through the hope and ex∣pectacion of the rewardes, which our Lorde Iesus Christe hath promy∣sed in the lyfe to come, vnto them that for his names sake care not for the displeasures of this lyfe. You shall not lose the hyre of your well do∣inges, for God our father that seeth vpon what respecte you did them, is he that shall paye the hyre.