paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:

Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

We ought to return thanks to God always for you, brethren, as is fitting, for your faith increases exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all enlarges to one another;

So that we ourselves boast in you in all the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your expulsions and pressures which ye endure:

(A proof of the just judgment of God,) for you to be deemed worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:

Even though just with God to return pressure to them pressing you;

In fire of flame giving vengeance to them not knowing God, and to them not listening to the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ:

For which also we pray always for you, that our God would deem you worthy of the calling, and fill all the benevolence of goodness, and work of faith in power:

So that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ be honoured in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Who being opposed and lifted up above all called God, or which is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

And for this, God shall send them the energy of error, for them to believe in falsehood:

And we ought to return thanks to God always for you, brethren dearly beloved by the Lord, that God chose you from the beginning to salvation in consecration of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

To which he called you by our good news, to the acquisition of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, also our Father, having loved us, and given us eternal consolation and good hope in grace,

Comfort your hearts, and support you in every good word and work.

And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ.

And ye, brethren, lose not courage doing good.