2 Thessalonians 1

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 our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

³We ought to give thanks to God always for you, brothers, as it is fitting, because your faith is growing exceedingly and the love of each one of you all toward one another is increasing;

⁴so that we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God concerning your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and the afflictions that you are enduring,

⁵a plain token of the righteous judgment of God, so that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which also you are suffering;

⁶since indeed it is just in God's sight to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

⁷and to you who are being afflicted, rest with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with the angels of his power,

⁸rendering retribution to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ;

⁹who will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his strength,

¹⁰when he comes to be glorified in his saints and to be marveled at among all those who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed, in that day.

¹¹To this end also we pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of the calling and may fulfill every good pleasure of goodness and work of faith with power,

¹²so that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.