PAUL and Silvanus [Silas] and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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

We ought to thank God always for you, brothers, as is fit, because your faith increases greatly, and the love of every one of you all one for another abounds,

so that we boast of you in the churches of God, of your patience and faith, in all your persecutions and the afflictions which you endure,

a token of the righteous judgment of God that you should be deemed worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer,

since it is just with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,

in a flame of fire, executing judgment on all that know not God and obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus;

For which also we pray always for you, that our God will account you worthy of the calling, and accomplish all the good pleasure of [his] goodness and the work of faith with power;

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

who opposes and exalts himself above every thing that is called a god or an object of worship, so that he sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

For the mystery of wickedness already works, [God] only restrains it just now, till it shall be out of the way;

And therefore, God sends them a power of delusion that they should believe a lie,

But we ought to thank God always for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you to salvation by purification of spirit, and belief of the truth,

and our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us and given us eternal consolation and a good hope by grace,

comfort and confirm your hearts in every good work and word.

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