1 Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace.2 We give praise to God at all times for you, keeping you in memory in our prayers;3 Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;4 Being conscious, my brothers, dear to God, that you have been marked out by God's purpose;5 Because our good news came to you, not in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Spirit, so that you were completely certain of it; even as you saw what our behaviour to you was like from our love to you.6 And you took us and the Lord as your example, after the word had come to you in much trouble, with joy in the Holy Spirit;7 So that you became an example to all those who have faith in Christ in Macedonia and Achaia.8 For not only was the word of the Lord sounding out from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith in God is made clear; so that we have no need to say anything.9 For they themselves give the news of how we came among you; and how you were turned from images to God, to the worship of a true and living God,10 Waiting for his Son from heaven, who came back from the dead, even Jesus, our Saviour from the wrath to come.

1 保罗、西拉和提摩太， 写信给帖撒罗尼迦、在父 神和主耶稣基督里的教会。愿恩惠平安临到你们。 2 我们常常为你们众人感谢 神， 祷告的时候提到你们， 3 在我们的父 神面前， 不住地记念你们信心的工作， 爱心的劳苦和因盼望我们主耶稣基督而有的坚忍。 4 神所爱的弟兄们， 我们知道你们是蒙拣选的， 5 因为我们的福音传到你们那里， 不单是借着言语， 也是借着权能， 借着圣灵和充足的信心。为了你们的缘故， 我们在你们中间为人怎样， 这是你们知道的。 6 你们效法了我们， 也效法了主， 在大患难中， 带着圣灵的喜乐接受了真道。 7 这样， 你们就成了马其顿和亚该亚所有信徒的榜样。 8 因为不单主的道从你们那里传遍了马其顿和亚该亚， 就是你们对 神的信心也传遍了各处， 所以我们不用再说什么了。 9 他们都述说你们是怎样接待我们， 而且怎样离弃偶像归向 神， 要服事这位又真又活的 神， 10 并且等候他的儿子从天降临。这就是 神使他从死人中复活， 救我们脱离将来的忿怒的那位耶稣。