\subsection{I Thessalonians 1}
\VS{1} Paul and Silas and Timothy to the assembly\fnEkklhsia{} of [the] Thessalonians in God [the] father and [the] Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace. 

\VS{2} I thank God always concerning you all, making mention [of you] in my prayers, 
constantly 
\VS{3} remembering your work of faith and labor of agape-love and 
endurance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ before our God and father, 
\VS{4} having known, brothers agape-beloved by God, your selection by[ God], 
\VS{5} for our good-news did not come to you in word only, but also in ability and in 
[the] Holy Spirit and in great certainty, just as you know what sort we came to 
be among you because [of you]. 
\VS{6} And you became imitators of us and of the 
Lord, having received the word in much distress with [the] joy of [the] Holy Spirit, 
\VS{7} so that you became [a] pattern to all those believing in Macedonia and 
Achaia. 
\VS{8} For from you sounded forth the word of the Lord not only in 
Macedonia and in Achaia, but to every place your faith towards God went out, 
so that we were having no need to be speaking anything, 
\VS{9} for they 
themselves report concerning you what sort of entrance we had to you, and how you turned
towards God from the idols to be slaving to [the] zoe-living\fnZoe{} and true God, 
\VS{10} and to be awaiting his son from the heavens, who arose from the 
dead, Jesus the [one] delivering us from the coming wrath. 

