1 Paul and Silvanus, and Timothy, To the Church of the Thessalonians, which is in God our Father, and in the Lord Jesus Christ:
2 Grace be with you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 We ought to thank God always for you, brothers (as is fitting), because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of you toward each other abounds.
4 So that we ourselves rejoice over you in the churches of God because of your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that you suffer.
5 (a sign of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the Kingdom of God, for which you also suffer).
6 For it is a righteous thing with God to repay those who trouble you with tribulation.
7 And to you who are troubled: rest with us when the Lord Jesus shall show Himself from Heaven with His mighty angels
8 in flaming fire, rendering vengeance on those who do not know God and who do not obey the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ;
9 who shall be punished with everlasting perdition from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power
10 when He shall, on that Day, come to be glorified in His saints and made marvelous in all those who believe, because our testimony toward you was believed.
11 Therefore, we pray always for you that our God may make you worthy of this calling and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness, and the work of faith, with 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 of the Lord Jesus Christ.