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title: "1 Thessalonians 1 – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin Vulgate"
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description: "He gives thanks for the grace bestowed on the Thessalonians. 1 Thessalonians 1 in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin Vulgate."
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# 1 Thessalonians 1

1 Thessalonians 1 is chapter 1 of 5 in the First Letter to the Thessalonians. Here are all 10 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> He gives thanks for the grace bestowed on the Thessalonians.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## 1 Thessalonians 1 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Paul and Sylvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians, in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
2. Grace and peace to you. We give thanks to God always for all of you, keeping the memory of you in our prayers without ceasing,
3. remembering your work of faith, and hardship, and charity, and enduring hope, in our Lord Jesus Christ, before God our Father.
4. For we know, brothers, beloved of God, of your election.
5. For our Gospel has not been among you in word alone, but also in virtue, and in the Holy Spirit, and with a great fullness, in the same manner as you know we have acted among you for your sake.
6. And so, you became imitators of us and of the Lord, accepting the Word in the midst of great tribulation, but with the joy of the Holy Spirit.
7. So have you become a pattern for all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.
8. For from you, the Word of the Lord was spread, not only in Macedonia and in Achaia, but also in every place. Your faith, which is toward God, has advanced so much so that we do not need to speak to you about anything.
9. For others are reporting among us of the kind of acceptance we had among you, and how you were converted from idols to God, to the service of the living and true God,
10. and to the expectation of his Son from heaven (whom he raised up from the dead), Jesus, who has rescued us from the approaching wrath.

## 1 Thessalonians 1 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Paulus, et Silvanus, et Timotheus ecclesiæ Thessalonicensium in Deo Patre, et Domino Jesu Christo.
2. Gratia vobis, et pax. Gratias agimus Deo semper pro omnibus vobis, memoriam vestri facientes in orationibus nostris sine intermissione,
3. memores operis fidei vestræ, et laboris, et caritatis, et sustinentiæ spei Domini nostri Jesu Christi, ante Deum et Patrem nostrum:
4. scientes, fratres dilecti a Deo, electionem vestram:
5. quia Evangelium nostrum non fuit ad vos in sermone tantum, sed et in virtute, et in Spiritu Sancto, et in plenitudine multa, sicut scitis quales fuerimus in vobis propter vos.
6. Et vos imitatores nostri facti estis, et Domini, excipientes verbum in tribulatione multa, cum gaudio Spiritus Sancti:
7. ita ut facti sitis forma omnibus credentibus in Macedonia, et in Achaia.
8. A vobis enim diffamatus est sermo Domini, non solum in Macedonia, et in Achaia, sed et in omni loco fides vestra, quæ est ad Deum, profecta est ita ut non sit nobis necesse quidquam loqui.
9. Ipsi enim de nobis annuntiant qualem introitum habuerimus ad vos: et quomodo conversi estis ad Deum a simulacris, servire Deo vivo, et vero,
10. et exspectare Filium ejus de cælis (quem suscitavit a mortuis) Jesum, qui eripuit nos ab ira ventura.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Mon, Aug 23, 2027 (computed): Monday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, 1 Thessalonians 1:1-5, 8b-10

Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).