2 Thessalonians 1

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 the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. \*

We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, just as it is fitting, because your faith is increasing greatly, and the love of each one of you all for one another is increasing;

so that we ourselves boast concerning you among the churches of God about your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and afflictions that you endure,

evidence of the righteous judgment of God, for you to be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer; \*

if indeed {it is} righteous for God to return affliction to the ones afflicting you,

and relief to you, the ones being afflicted with us at the revealing of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his mighty angels,

in flaming fire taking vengeance on the ones not having known God and on the ones not obeying the gospel of our Lord Jesus, \*

who will pay the penalty—eternal destruction away from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his power,

when he comes on that day to be glorified by his saints and to be marveled at by all the ones having believed, for our testimony to you has been believed. \*

For this we also pray always for you, so that our God may consider you worthy of the calling and he may fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith in power

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