A New Loyality
Turning to God from Idols
1 Thessalonians 1: 1-10
1Th 1:1  Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. 
The Thessalonians' Faith and Example
1Th 1:2  We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers; 
1Th 1:3  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; 
1Th 1:4  Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God. 
1Th 1:5  For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake. 
1Th 1:6  And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost: 
1Th 1:7  So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia. 
1Th 1:8  For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing. 
1Th 1:9  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; 
1Th 1:10  And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come. 

John 6:28-29
Ephesians 1:4
1Corthians 11:1
2Corthians 4:6
John 7:37-38
Luke 12:36
Romans 8:23
1Corthians 11:26
2Corthians 5:2
Galatians 5:5
Philippians 3:20
Philippians 4:5
Titus 2:13
Hebrew 9:28
James 5:7-9
1Peter 4:7
1John 3:3
Jude 1:21
Revelation 3:11
Revelation 22:7; 12;20


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