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 ^[a]patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before ^[b]our God and Father; ⁴ knowing, brethren beloved of God, your election, ^5 [c]how that our ^[d]gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much ^[e]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.