[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.

a token of the righteous judgment of God, for your being counted worthy of the reign of God, for which also ye suffer,

and to you who are being afflicted, rest with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his powerful angels,

They will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, being banished from the presence of the Lord and from His glorious majesty,

Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to Him: We ask you, brothers,

who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God.

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

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

and in all deceitfulness of the unrighteousness in those perishing, because the love of the truth they did not receive for their being 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:

Indeed, we hear that some among you are leading an undisciplined and inappropriate life, doing no work at all, but acting like busybodies [meddling in other people’s business].

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

This greeting [is being written] by me, Paul, in my own handwriting; it is the signature I write in every letter.