1Paul and 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 the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3We always owe thanks to God concerning you, brothers, as is fitting, because your faith grows exceedingly and the love of each one of you toward one another overflows,
4So that we ourselves may boast about you among the churches of God concerning your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and the afflictions you endure,
5An indication of the righteous judgment of God, to make you worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer,
6Since it is just and right before God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,
7and to you who are being troubled, rest with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his powerful angels
8in flaming fire, giving vengeance to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus,
9who will pay the penalty of eternal destruction away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power,
10When he comes to be glorified in his holy ones and to be marveled at by all those who have believed, because our testimony about you was believed, on that day.
11For this reason we also pray constantly for you, that God our Lord may make you worthy of the calling and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power,
12so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and Lord Jesus Christ.