- Paul, Silas and Timothy, To the church
of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
- Grace and peace to you from God the Father
and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- We ought always to thank God for you, brothers,
and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love
every one of you has for each other is increasing.
- Therefore, among God's churches we boast
about your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and trials you
are enduring.
- All this is evidence that God's judgment
is right, and as a result you will be counted worthy of the kingdom of God,
for which you are suffering.
- God is just: He will pay back trouble to
those who trouble you
- and give relief to you who are troubled,
and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from
heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels.
- He will punish those who do not know God
and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
- They will be punished with everlasting
destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty
of his power
- on the day he comes to be glorified in
his holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed.
This includes you, because you believed our testimony to you.
- With this in mind, we constantly pray for
you, that our God may count you worthy of his calling, and that by his power
he may fulfill every good purpose of yours and every act prompted by your
faith.
- We pray this so that the name of our Lord
Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of
our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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