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

grace and peace to you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

and repay you who are troubled (as well as us) with rest and relief, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven together with the angels of his power

in flaming fire, to inflict punishment on those who ignore God, even on those who refuse obedience to the gospel of our Lord Jesus,

so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you (and you glorified in him), by the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

With regard to the arrival of the Lord Jesus Christ and our muster before him, I beg you, brothers,

Then shall the Lawless One be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will destroy with the breath of his lips and quell by his appearing and arrival ??9 that One whose arrival is due to Satan's activity, with the full power, the miracles and portents, of falsehood,

it was for this that he called you by our gospel, to gain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father who has loved us and given us eternal encouragement and good hope,

Brothers, we charge you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to shun any brother who is loafing, instead of following the rule you got from us.

Now in the Lord Jesus Christ we charge and exhort such persons to keep quiet, to do their work and earn their own living.

'The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.'