1 Thessalonians 1

New Jerusalem Bible	Douai-Rheims
¹ Paul, Silvanus and Timothy, to the Church in Thessalonica which is in God the Father and the LordJesus Christ. Grace to you and peace.	¹ Paul and Sylvanus and Timothy: to the church of the Thessalonians, in God the Father, and in the Lord Jesus Christ.
² We always thank God for you al , mentioning you in our prayers continually.	² Grace be to you and peace. We give thanks to God always for you all; making a remembrance of you in our prayers without ceasing,
³ We remember before our God and Father how active is the faith, how unsparing the love, howpersevering the hope which you have from our Lord Jesus Christ.	³ Being mindful of the work of your faith, and labour, and charity, and of the enduring of the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before God and our Father:
⁴ We know, brothers loved by God, that you have been chosen,	⁴ Knowing, brethren beloved of God, your election:
⁵ because our gospel came to you not only in words, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and withgreat effect. And you observed the sort of life we lived when we were with you, which was for your sake.	⁵ For our gospel hath not been unto you in word only, but in power also, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much fulness, as you know what manner of men we have been among you for your sakes.
⁶ You took us and the Lord as your model, welcoming the word with the joy of the Holy Spirit in spite ofgreat hardship.	⁶ And you became followers of us, and of the Lord; receiving the word in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Ghost:
⁷ And so you became an example to al believers in Macedonia and Achaia	⁷ So that you were made a pattern to all that believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.
⁸ since it was from you that the word of the Lord rang out -- and not only throughout Macedonia andAchaia, for your faith in God has spread everywhere. We do not need to tel other people about it:	⁸ For from you was spread abroad the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia, and in Achaia, but also in every place, your faith which is towards God, is gone forth, so that we need not to speak any thing.
⁹ other people tel us how we started the work among you, how you broke with the worship of false godswhen you were converted to God and became servants of the living and true God;	⁹ For they themselves relate of us, what manner of entering in we had unto you; and how you turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God.
¹⁰ and how you are now waiting for Jesus, his Son, whom he raised from the dead, to come fromheaven. It is he who saves us from the Retribution which is coming.	¹⁰ And to wait for his Son from heaven (whom he raised up from the dead,) Jesus, who hath delivered us from the wrath to come.