1Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy: to the Church of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and in the Lord Jesus Christ. 2Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brethren, as it is fitting, because your faith is growing wonderfully and your mutual love for all is overflowing. 4Therefore, in the Churches of God, we boast about you for your patience and faith in all your persecutions, and for the afflictions which you endure. 5This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, so that you may be accounted worthy of the Kingdom of God, for which you too suffer. 6It is righteous for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you 7and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us. This will be when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, 8bringing vengeance to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9They will pay the penalty of eternal destruction from the face2031 of the Lord and from the glory of his power, 10when he comes to be glorified in his holy ones2032 and to be admired among all those who have believed (because our testimony to you was believed) in that Day.
11With this in mind, we also pray always for you, so that our God may account you worthy of your calling and fulfill with power [your] every desire of goodness and work of faith. 12May the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ2033 be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Apostasy and the man of sin
- Or “presence”
- Or “saints”
- Some manuscripts omit “Christ”
Text: The Eastern / Greek Orthodox Bible, New Testament (EOB). Used with permission.
