1 Thessalonians 1:3-5

Darby Translation

³ remembering unceasingly your work of faith, and labour of love, and enduring constancy of hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

⁴ knowing, brethren beloved by God, your election.

⁵ For our glad tidings were not with you in word only, but also in power, and in [the] Holy Spirit, and in much assurance; even as ye know what we were among you for your sakes: