Greeting

1Paul, Silvanus and Timothy, ⁰to the congregation ¹of the Thessalonians in God our Father and Sovereign Jesus Christ:

2Grace and peace to you from God our Father and Sovereign Jesus Christ. ²

Commendation and encouragement

3We are obligated to always give thanks to God about you, brothers, and properly so, because your faith is really growing, and the love of each and every one of you towards each other keeps increasing;

4so that we ourselves boast about you among God's congregations, referring to your steadfastness and faith in the midst of all your persecutions, and the tribulations that you are enduring ³

5—the above is evidence that God's judgment is right, ⁴to the end that you be considered worthy ⁵of the Kingdom of God, on behalf of which you are actually suffering;

6since to God it is right to pay back affliction to those who are afflicting you ⁶

7and rest (along with us) to you who are being afflicted, ⁷at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with His powerful angels in blazing fire, ⁸

8inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁹

9who will pay a penalty: everlasting ruin, ¹⁰away from the face of the Lord and from the glory of His might,

10whenever He comes to be glorified by His saints, ¹¹yes to be marveled at by all who have believed (because our testimony to you was believed); ¹²in that Day. ¹³

A model prayer

11To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of the calling ¹⁴and fulfill ¹⁵with power every desire of usefulness and work of faith, ¹⁶

12so that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ ¹⁷may be glorified in you, ¹⁸and you in Him, ¹⁹according to the grace of our God and Lord, Jesus Christ. ²⁰