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

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

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, who delivereth us from the coming wrath.

For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; for ye also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, as they have from the Jews;

who both killed the Lord Jesus, and the prophets, and drove us out, and please not God, and set themselves against all men,

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glorying? Is it not even ye, in the presence of our Lord Jesus at his coming?

Now God himself, our Father, and our Lord Jesus direct our way to you;

in order that he may establish your hearts unblamable in holiness before God, our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his holy ones.

Furthermore then, brethren, we beseech you, and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received from us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye are walking, ye would abound still more;

for ye know what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, then also will God, through Jesus, bring again with him those who have fallen asleep.

for God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus in regard to you.

And may the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved whole, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.