God always for all of you as we mention you constantly in our prayers, because we recall in the presence of our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and endurance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. We know, brothers and sisters loved by God, that he has chosen you, in that our gospel did not come to you merely in words, but in power and in the Holy Spirit and with deep conviction (surely you recall the character we displayed when we came among you to help you). And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, when you received the message with joy that comes from the Holy Spirit, despite great affliction. As a result you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia. For from you the message of the Lord has echoed forth not just in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place reports of your faith in God have spread, so that we do not need to say anything. For people everywhere report how you welcomed us and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus our deliverer from the coming wrath.
保羅、西拉、提摩太、寫信給帖撒羅尼迦在父 神和主耶穌基督裡的教會．願恩惠平安歸與你們。 我們為你們眾人常常感謝 神、禱告的時候提到你們． 在 神我們的父面前、不住的記念你們因信心所作的工夫、因愛心所受的勞苦、因盼望我們主耶穌基督所存的忍耐。 被 神所愛的弟兄阿、我知道你們是蒙揀選的．因為我們的福音傳到你們那裡、不獨在乎言語、也在乎權能、和聖靈、並充足的信心．正如你們知道我們在你們那裡、為你們的緣故是怎樣為人。 並且你們在大難之中、蒙了聖靈所賜的喜樂、領受真道、就效法我們、也效法了主． 甚至你們作了馬其頓和亞該亞、所有信主之人的榜樣。 因為主的道從你們那裡已經傳揚出來、你們向 神的信心不但在馬其頓和亞該亞、就是在各處、也都傳開了．所以不用我們說甚麼話。 因為他們自己已經報明我們是怎樣進到你們那裡、你們是怎樣離棄偶像歸向 神、要服事那又真又活的 神、 等候他兒子從天降臨、就是他從死裡復活的、那位救我們脫離將來忿怒的耶穌。
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