Greeting

1Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:

2Grace to you and peace from God ⁰our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

The Judgment at Christ's Coming

3We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is only fitting, because your faith is greatly increasing and the love that each of you has for one another is abounding.

4As a result we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your perseverance and faithfulness in all the persecutions and tribulations that you are enduring.

5This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, and it is happening so that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering.

6It is indeed right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

7and to give to you who are being afflicted relief along with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his mighty angels.

8With flaming fire he will inflict vengeance on those who do not know God and who do not obey the gospel of our Lord ¹Jesus.

9They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

10on that day when he comes to be glorified by his saints and to be marveled at by all who ²have believed, including you, because you have believed our testimony.

11With this in mind, we always pray for you that our God will make you worthy of his calling and by his power bring to fulfillment every good intention and work of faith,

12so that the name of our Lord ³Jesus will be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and Lord, Jesus Christ.