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diff --git a/bible/base_files/engBBE_082_1TH_01_read.txt b/bible/base_files/engBBE_082_1TH_01_read.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7f1aeb2 --- /dev/null +++ b/bible/base_files/engBBE_082_1TH_01_read.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Paul’s First Letter to the Thessalonians. +Chapter 1. +Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace. +We give praise to God at all times for you, keeping you in memory in our prayers; +Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father; +Being conscious, my brothers, dear to God, that you have been marked out by God's purpose; +Because our good news came to you, not in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Spirit, so that you were completely certain of it; even as you saw what our behaviour to you was like from our love to you. +And you took us and the Lord as your example, after the word had come to you in much trouble, with joy in the Holy Spirit; +So that you became an example to all those who have faith in Christ in Macedonia and Achaia. +For not only was the word of the Lord sounding out from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith in God is made clear; so that we have no need to say anything. +For they themselves give the news of how we came among you; and how you were turned from images to God, to the worship of a true and living God, +Waiting for his Son from heaven, who came back from the dead, even Jesus, our Saviour from the wrath to come. |