‘Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
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‘For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;
‘And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.’
—1 Thessalonians 1:3, 9, &10