Paul and Silvanus and Timotheus, to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: grace and peace to you.

as we recall your active faith and labour of love and patient hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

and to wait for the coming of his Son from heaven ??the Son whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who rescues us from the Wrath to come.

for you have started, my brothers, to copy the churches of God in Christ Jesus throughout Judaea; you have suffered from your compatriots just as they have suffered from the Jews,

who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, who harassed ourselves, who offend God and oppose all men

For who is our hope, our joy, our crown of pride (who but you?) in the presence of our Lord Jesus on his arrival?

May our God and Father and our Lord Jesus direct my way to you!

so as to strengthen your hearts and make them blameless in holiness before our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his holy ones. [Amen.]

Finally, brothers, we beg and beseech you in the Lord Jesus to follow our instructions about the way you are to live so as to satisfy God; you are leading that life, but you are to excel in it still further.

You remember the instructions we gave you on the authority of the Lord Jesus.

Since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, then it follows that by means of Jesus God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.

but we must be sober, we who belong to the day, clad in faith and love as our coat of mail, with the hope of salvation as our helmet ??9 for God destined us not for Wrath but to gain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

thank God for everything ??such is his will for you in Christ Jesus;

May the God of peace consecrate you through and through! Spirit, soul, and body, may you be kept without break or blame till the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ!

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. [Amen.]