1:1 | From Paul* and Silvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians* in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. |
1:2 | Grace and peace to you* from God the* Father and the Lord Jesus Christ! |
1:3 | We ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters,* and rightly so,* because your faith flourishes more and more and the love of each one of you all for one another is ever greater. |
1:4 | As a result we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and afflictions you are enduring. |
1:5 | This is evidence of God’s righteous judgment, to make you worthy* of the kingdom of God, for which in fact you are suffering. |
1:6 | For it is right* for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you, |
1:7 | and to you who are being afflicted to give rest together with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed* from heaven with his mighty angels.* |
1:8 | With flaming fire he will mete out* punishment on those who do not know God* and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. |
1:9 | They* will undergo the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his strength,* |
1:10 | when he comes to be glorified among his saints and admired* on that day among all who have believed – and you did in fact believe our testimony.* |
1:11 | And in this regard we pray for you always, that our God will make you worthy of his calling* and fulfill by his power your every desire for goodness and every work of faith, |
1:12 | 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. |