1 Thessalonians 1:3-8

3remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadiness of hope in our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.

4We know, brothers and sisters loved by God, that you are chosen,

5because our Good News did not come to you in word only, but also in power and in the Ruach ha-Kodesh and with complete certainty—just as you know what kind of men we proved to be while among you for your sake.

6You also became imitators of us and of the Lord, having accepted the message in much tribulation, with the joy of the Ruach ha-Kodesh.

7So you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia.

8For the word of the Lord rang out from you—not just in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faithfulness toward God has gone out, so that we have no need to say anything.