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。

1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace.

2 We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers; 3 remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father; 4 knowing, brethren beloved of God, your election, 5 how that our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance; even as ye know what manner of men we showed ourselves toward you for your sake. 6 And ye became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit; 7 so that ye became an ensample to all that believe in Macedonia and in Achaia. 8 For from you hath sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith to God-ward is gone forth; so that we need not to speak anything. 9 For they themselves report concerning us what manner of entering in we had unto you; and how ye turned unto God from idols, to serve a living and true God, 10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, who delivereth us from the wrath to come.