Thanksgiving for the Thessalonian Believers

We give thanks to God always concerning all of you, making mention constantly in our prayers, because we[a] remember your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father, knowing, brothers dearly loved by God, that he has chosen you[b],

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Thessalonians 1:3 Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“remember”) which is understood as causal
  2. 1 Thessalonians 1:4 Literally “the choice of you”