Since there doesn't seem to be a 'the', in the Greek, [not every Bible has a "the", there, in English, how are you separating, the reference to the God our Abba, from Jesus? In the KJV, there is a 'the', however, this seems non'literal.
In other words, 'and' without the 'the', just seems to...
I find the correlate is found in the connecting word " and ".
1Thessalonians1:2 corresponds to Romans 1:7.
So, even leaving out the word ' the ' still the word " and " connects one person to another person.