2 Thessalonians 1
1 Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
2 Grace and peace to you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 We must always give thanks to God for you, brothers and sisters, as is right, because your faith is growing greatly, and the love each one of you has for one another is increasing.
4 So we ourselves boast about you among the churches of God, because of your endurance and faith in all the persecutions and troubles you are bearing.
5 This is evidence of God’s righteous judgment, so that you may be considered worthy of God’s kingdom, for which you are also suffering.
6 For it is right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,
7 and to give relief to you who are afflicted, along with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with the angels of his power,
8 in blazing fire, bringing punishment on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
9 They will suffer the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
10 when he comes on that day to be glorified among his holy people and admired by all who have believed—because our testimony was believed among you.
11 With this in mind, we also always pray for you, that our God may consider you worthy of his calling and fulfill with power every good purpose inspired by goodness and every work produced by faith,
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 the Lord Jesus Christ.
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