1So B 1739 1881 copsa,fay arm vg. ℵA I 33 81 and a majority of lesser Gk. mss. (copbo) add from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ
1: 2 We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;
1: 3 remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and 2patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before 3our God and Father;
2Or, stedfastness
3Or, God and our Father;
1: 4 knowing, brethren beloved of God, your election,
1: 5 4how that our 5gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in 6a holy spirit, and in much 7assurance; even as ye know what manner of men we became toward you for your sake.
4Or, because our gospel etc.
5Gk. good tidings And so everywhere; see marginal note on Mt 4:23.
6Or, the Holy Spirit, And so in vs. 6.
7Or, fulness;
1: 6 And ye became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of a holy spirit;
1: 7 so that ye became an ensample to all that believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.
1: 8 For from you hath sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith toward God is gone forth; so that we need not to speak anything.
1: 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,
1: 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.
