Book 53 2 Thessalonians
001:001 Paul, Silas, and Timothy: To the Church of the Thessalonians
which is in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
001:002 May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father
and the Lord Jesus Christ.
001:003 Unceasing thanks are due from us to God on your behalf, brethren.
They are appropriate because your faith is growing greatly,
and the love of every one of you for all the others
goes on increasing.
001:004 It so increases that we ourselves make honourable mention
of you among the Churches of God because of your patience
and faith amid all your persecutions and amid the afflictions
which you are enduring.
001:005 For these are a plain token of God's righteous judgement, which has
in view your being deemed worthy of admission to God's Kingdom,
for the sake of which, indeed, you are sufferers.
001:006 A plain token of God's righteous judgement, I say, since it
is a righteous thing for Him to requite with affliction
those who are now afflicting you;
001:007 and to requite with rest you who are suffering affliction now--
rest with us at the re-appearing of the Lord Jesus from Heaven,
attended by His mighty angels.
001:008 He will come in flames of fire to take vengeance on those
who have no knowledge of God, and do not obey the Good News
as to Jesus, our Lord.
001:009 They will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, being banished
from the presence of the Lord and from His glorious majesty,
001:010 when He comes on that day to be glorified in His people and to
be wondered at among all who have believed, including you--
because you believed the testimony which we brought