Introduction

1. Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
2. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Thanksgiving and Judgment at the Lord’s Revelation

3. We are obligated to give thanks to God always concerning you, brethren, just as it is fitting, because your faith is increasing exceedingly and the love of each one of you all toward one another is abounding,
4. so that we ourselves boast in you among the assemblies of God about your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and afflictions which you are bearing,
5. a sign of the righteous judgment of God, so that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which indeed you are suffering,
6. since it is just for God to repay affliction to those afflicting you,
7. and to you who are being afflicted, relief with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his mighty angels,
8. in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
9. These will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
10. when he comes to be glorified in his saints and to be marveled at among all those who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed, in that day.

Prayer for God’s Power and Worthiness

11. To this end also we pray always for you, that our God may make you worthy of the calling and may fulfill every good intention of goodness and work of faith in power,
12. so that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.