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“To: The Assembly of the Thessalonians”
1 From: Paul and Silvanus and Timothy.
To: The assembly of the Thessalonians in union with God our Father and Jesus the Messiah.
2 To all of ᵖyou+ grace, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus the Messiah.
“We Can’t Help but Give Thanks to God”
3 We can’t help but give thanks to God at all times for you, brothers and sisters, as is certainly fitting, in view of the fact that your faith is growing so much and that the love each one of you has for one another is increasing.
4 As a result, we ourselves, in regard to you, are constantly speaking in praise as we visit God’s assemblies, bragging about the perseverance and faith you’ve exhibited amidst all the persecutions and the trials you continue to endure.
5 These trials demonstrate the opposite of what will happen when God judges in righteousness, and as a result of them, according to his purpose, you will be made ready for the Kingdom of God, on account of which you too are suffering.
6 For it is indeed only right in the sight of God for him to punish your persecutors by paying them back with trial and affliction,
7 and to reward you who are being persecuted by repaying you with rest, together with us, when our Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his powerful angels in blazing fire.
8 He will execute vengeance against those who do not know God and against those who refuse to obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
9 Such people will pay the penalty—utter disaster in the coming age, away from the presence of the Lord and from his glorious power—
10 when he comes back to be glorified in his holy people and marveled at in the midst of those who believed, which includes you, since you believed what we saw with our own eyes and solemnly proclaimed to you—in that Day.
11 These things in mind, we also pray at all times for you, that you our God would himself make ready for that to which he summons you, and turn every intention for good into action and bring every deed prompted by faith to completion through his power,
12 so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the gift of our God and the Lord Jesus the Messiah.