2 Thessalonians 1

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

³ We must always thank God for you, brothers; quite rightly, because your faith is growing so wonderfullyand the mutual love that each one of you has for al never stops increasing.

⁴ Among the churches of God we take special pride in you for your perseverance and faith under al thepersecutions and hardships you have to bear.

⁵ It al shows that God's judgement is just, so that you may be found worthy of the kingdom of God; it isfor the sake of this that you are suffering now.

⁶ For God's justice wil surely mean hardship being inflicted on those who are now inflicting hardship onyou,

⁷ and for you who are now suffering hardship, relief with us, when the Lord Jesus appears from heavenwith the angels of his power.

⁸ He wil come amid flaming fire; he wil impose a penalty on those who do not acknowledge God andrefuse to accept the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

⁹ Their punishment is to be lost eternal y, excluded from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his strength

¹⁰ on that day when he comes to be glorified among his holy ones and marvelled at by al who believe inhim; and you are among those who believed our witness.

¹¹ In view of this we also pray continual y that our God wil make you worthy of his cal , and by his powerfulfil all your desires for goodness, and complete al that you have been doing through faith;

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