[This letter is from] Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, [and is being sent] to the church of the Thessalonians in [fellowship with] God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

This is a proof of God's righteous judgment, His aim being to let you show yourselves worthy of His kingdom, for which you are suffering; since,

and to give rest to you who are being crushed with sorrows, along with us, at the unveiling of our Lord Jesus Christ from heaven, with His mighty angels

Such people will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction by being separated from the Lord's presence and from his glorious power

And we beseech you, brothers, in respect to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our being brought together to him,

the adversary of every being that is called a god or an object of worship, and so overbearing toward them as to enter God's sanctuary and take his seat there, proclaiming himself to be God??5 do you not remember that when I was with you, I used to tell you this?

Do ye not remember that, being yet with you, these things I said to you?

and now, what is keeping down ye have known, for his being revealed in his own time,

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.

But it is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, loved by the Lord, because it was the purpose of God from the first that you might have salvation, being made holy by the Spirit and by faith in what is true:

that we did not eat any man's bread for nothing: but with toil and fatigue work'd night and day to avoid being chargeable to any of you:

For we hear that some go about among you in a disorderly manner, not working, but being above work;

Do not regard him as an enemy, but keep admonishing him as a [believing] brother.

I Paul salute you, this salutation being my own hand writing, which is the distinguishing mark of all my letters, so I write.