2 Thessalonians 1

1Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the Thessalonian church in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

2Grace and peace to you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

3We ought always to thank God for you, brothers, as is fitting, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love each of you all has toward one another abounds.

4so that we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your endurance and faith amid all your persecutions and the afflictions that you endure.

5This is evidence of God's righteous judgment, so that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer.

6Since it is just with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you.

7and relief to you who are afflicted, with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels.

8in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus,

9who will suffer punishment—eternal destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power

10When he comes to be glorified in his saints and marveled at among all who believed—because our testimony among you was believed—in that day.

11With this in mind we also pray always for you, that our God may consider you worthy of the calling and fulfill every desire for goodness and the work of faith with power.

12so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and Lord Jesus Christ.