1 Tessalonicenses 1

He Mihi

1 Nā Pāora, nā rātou ko Hirawanu, ko Tīmoti,

Ki te hāhi o te hunga o Teharonika i roto i te Atua Matua, i te Ariki hoki, i a Īhu Karaiti:

Kia tau te aroha noa ki a koutou me te rangimārie.

Te Ora me te Whakapono o te Hunga Teharonika

2 Whakawhetai tonu mātou ki te Atua i ngā wā katoa mō koutou katoa, me te whakahua i a koutou i ā mātou īnoi; 3 mau tonu tō mātou mahara ki tā koutou mahi whakapono, ki te uaua o tō koutou aroha, ki te ū o te tūmanako ki tō tātou Ariki, ki a Īhu Karaiti, i te aroaro o te Atua, arā o tō tātou Matua.

4 E mōhio ana hoki mātou, e ngā tēina e arohaina nei e te Atua, ki tō koutou whiriwhiringa. 5 Kīhai hoki tā mātou rongopai i tae atu ki a koutou i runga i te kupu anake, engari i te kaha, i te Wairua Tapu, nui atu hoki te ū o te ngākau; pērā anō me koutou e mātau nā ki tō mātou āhua i roto i a koutou, he whakaaro ki a koutou. 6 Ā, ka whai koutou i tā mātou tauira, i tā te Ariki hoki, i riro uaua atu nā i a koutou te kupu, me te whakahari anō ia a te Wairua Tapu. 7 Nō ka waiho koutou hei tauira ki te hunga whakapono katoa o Makeronia, o Akāia. 8 I pakū haere atu nā hoki i a koutou te kupu a te Ariki, ehara i te mea i Makeronia, i Akāia anake, engari i puta atu tō koutou whakapono ki te Atua ki ngā wāhi katoa; nō reira kāhore he rawa e puaki ai tētahi kupu a mātou. 9 Ko rātou nei hoki kei te kōrero mō mātou, mō tō mātou taenga atu ki a koutou, mō tō koutou tahuritanga mai hoki i ngā whakapakoko ki te Atua, ki te mahi ki te Atua ora, ki te Atua pono; 10 ki te tatari anō hoki ki tāna Tama i te rangi, i whakaarahia ake nei e ia i te hunga mate, ki a Īhu, e whakaora nei i a tātou i te riri meāke nei puta.

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.