1 From Paul and Sylvanus and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians in God our father and Lord Jesus Christ,
2 grace to you and peace from God our father and Lord Jesus Christ.
3 We have a debt to always be giving thanks to God for you, brothers, as is befitting, because your faith is increasing exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all towards one another is growing,
4 with the result that we ourselves boast in you, in the churches of God, for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the tribulations which you endure,
5 which is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, to the intent that you are considered worthy of the kingdom of God, concerning which you also undergo suffering,
6 since it is a righteous thing with God to retribute those who inflict affliction on you,
7 and to give you who are afflicted relief with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his mighty angels,
8 with flaming fire, taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus,
9 who will pay the penalty: age-abiding destruction away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
10 when he comes to be glorified among his saints and to be looked at with wonder among all those who have believed, (because our witness to you was believed), on that day.
11 And in view of this we also pray at all times concerning you, that our God may make you worthy of the calling and fulfil every resolve of goodness and work of faith with power,
12 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 Lord Jesus Christ.
1 And we ask you, brothers concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering up to him,
2 for you not to be quickly shaken from a sound mind nor to be troubled either through a spirit or a saying or an epistle supposedly from us, claiming that the day of Christ is immediately at hand.
3 Let no-one deceive you in any way, because it will not come until the apostasy has come first and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,
4 who is opposed and self-exalted against everything called God, or object of worship, so that he sits as God in the sanctuary of God, putting himself forward as God.
5 Do you not remember that when I was still with you, I used to tell you these things?
6 And now you know the restraining factor in him being revealed in his own time.
7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work, except that there is the one who is currently doing the restraining until he emerges from the arena.
8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will destroy with the breath of his mouth, and will annihilate, at the manifestation of his coming,
9 him whose coming is with Satanic energizing, with all kinds of power and signs and lying miracles,
10 and with all kinds of unjust deceit among those who are on the road to being lost, because they did not receive the love of the truth, which was for them to be saved.
11 And for this reason God will send them a deluding force so that they believe the lie,
12 in order that all those who have not believed the truth, but taken satisfaction in unrighteousness, may be judged.
13 But we have a debt to give thanks to God at all times for you, brothers, loved by the Lord, in that God chose you from the beginning with a goal of salvation with sanctification of the spirit and faith in the truth.
14 And to this he called you through our gospel: to be a glorious acquisition of our Lord Jesus Christ.
15 So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions which you have been taught, whether by spoken word or by our epistle.
16 And may our Lord himself, Jesus Christ, and our God and father who loved us and gave age-abiding encouragement and good hope by grace
17 encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good word and deed.
1 Finally, brothers, pray for us, so that the word of the Lord may run its course, and be glorified, as also with you,
2 and that we may be delivered from perverse and wicked men, for not all have the faith.
3 But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen you and protect you from evil.
4 And we trust in the Lord concerning you, that you do, and will do, the things that we charge you with.
5 Now may the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to patience in waiting for Christ.
6 And we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you shun every brother who behaves in a disorderly way and not according to the tradition which they received from us.
7 For you yourselves know how it is necessary to imitate us, because we did not behave in a disorderly way among you.
8 And we did not eat bread from anyone without payment, but we worked night and day with toil and hard work, so as not to be a burden to any of you.
9 Not that we don't have authority, but so that we make ourselves an example to you, for you to imitate.
10 For indeed, when we were with you, we commanded you this: that if anyone was unwilling to work, that he should not eat either,
11 for we hear that some behave in a disorderly way among you, not doing any work, but fussing around.
12 And we command such and exhort them through our Lord Jesus Christ, that they work quietly and eat their own bread.
13 But you, brothers, do not lose heart in doing good.
14 And if anyone does not obey our injunction through the epistle, take note of him and do not associate with him, so that he may be ashamed,
15 yet do not consider him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
16 And may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in every way. The Lord be with you all.
17 The greeting of Paul by my own hand, which is a sign in every epistle – I write like this.
18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.