and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead-- Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.
There is a noticeable shift in pronouns in these last two verses. As Paul relates what has been reported to him about the conversion of the Thessalonians, he uses the pronoun "you": "They show what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned..." (verse 9). However, his conversion experience was different (Acts 9).