Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the congregation of Thessalonians in God the Father and Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and Lord Jesus Christ.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

and to await his Son from the heavens whom he raised from the dead--Jesus--who rescues us from the coming wrath.

For ye, brothers, became imitators of the congregations of God, which are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because ye also suffered the same things by your own countrymen, just as also they by the Jews.

The men who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and who persecuted us, and are not pleasing to God, and are contrary to all men.

For what is our hope or joy or crown of boast? Or is it not even ye, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you.

in order to establish your hearts unblameable in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his sanctified.

Finally therefore, brothers, we ask you, and summon in Lord Jesus, that just as ye received from us how ye ought to walk and to please God, that ye may abound more.

For ye know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

For if we believe that Jesus died and arose, so also those who became asleep through Jesus, God will bring with him.

Because God appointed us not for wrath, but for an acquired possession of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us.

In everything express thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

And may the God of peace himself sanctify you thoroughly. And may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, blamelessly at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is with you. Truly.