Giving Thanks for These Believers

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

so that you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia.

You are witnesses, and so is God, of how devoutly and rightly and blamelessly we behaved toward you believers;

For this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of mere men, but as what it really is, the word of God, which also is at work in you who believe.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose from the dead, so also God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep through Jesus.