1 Thessalonians 1:4-6

Disciples’ Literal New Testament

⁴ knowing, brothers having been loved by God, your election^[a], ⁵ because our good-news did not come to you in word only, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with great fullness-of-conviction— just as you know what-kind-of men we proved-to-be among you for your sake.

For You Became Imitators of Us And Examples To All

⁶ And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, having accepted the word in much affliction with the joy of the Holy Spirit,