1 Paul,
and Silvanus, and Timotheus,
unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ:
2 Grace
unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 We are
bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your
faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every
one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
4 So that
we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in
all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:
5 Which
is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God,
that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom
of God, for which ye also suffer:
6 Seeing it
is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that
trouble you;
7 And to
you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from
heaven with his mighty angels,
8 In
flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the
gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
9 Who
shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord,
and from the glory of his power;
10 When
he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that
believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
11 Wherefore
also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this
calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his
goodness, and the work of faith with power:
12 That
the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him,
according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.