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

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father,

and to wait for His Son from Heaven (whom He raised from the dead), Jesus, who delivered us from the wrath to come.

For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus. For you also have suffered these things by your own countrymen, even as they also by the Jews;

who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, also driving us out and they do not please God and being contrary to all men,

For what is our hope or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are you not even to be in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at His coming?

And may God Himself and our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ direct our way to you.

in order to establish your hearts blameless in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.

For the rest, then, my brothers, we beseech you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as you have received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, so you would abound more and more.

For we know what commands we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will also bring with Him all those who have fallen asleep through Jesus.

For God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

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

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

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.