Paul, Silvanus and Timothy. Unto the congregation of the Thessalonians, which are in God our father, and in the Lord Jesus Christ.

We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you towards one another abounds;

so that we are always boasting of you among the churches of God for your patient endurance and faith, in spite of your persecutions and crushing sorrows which you are enduring.

which is a token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye are counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer.

since [it is] righteous in the sight of God to pay back those who are afflicting you with affliction,

and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,

For this reason, you are ever in our prayers, that you may seem to our God such as may have a part in his purpose and that by his power he will make all his good purpose, and the work of faith, complete;

and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

so that they all should be condemned, who are faithless to the truth, but take pleasure in evil.

But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you as first fruits for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth;

And we have faith in the Lord about you, that you are doing and will do the things about which we give you orders.

For you yourselves are used to taking us as your example, because our life among you was ruled by order,

For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who do not work at all, but are busybodies.

Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

You are not to treat him as an enemy, but to put him under discipline, as a brother.

These words of love to you at the end are in my writing, Paul's writing, and this is the mark of every letter from me.