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Small group in a shadowed stone room, weary faces finding quiet joy together.
Artwork is an interpretation. Scripture is quoted from the People's Open Bible.

1 Thessalonians 1:6

Joy amid affliction

Faith, Love, and Steadfast Hope · 1 Thessalonians 1

Story guide: The community receives the word with joy even amid affliction. This is an interpretive visual essay, not a record of an otherwise unreported event.

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

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