1
📚Paul, and Silvanus✭, and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 2 📚Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Love and faith growing in the midst of persecution
3 📚We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is fitting, because your faith grows✭ exceedingly, and the love of every one of you for each other abounds, 4 📚so that we ourselves boast✭ about you in the churches of God, for your patient endurance and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations✭ that you bear.
5 📚This is clear evidence✭ of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy✭ of the kingdom of God✭, for which you also suffer✭,
The punishment that will come on persecutors and those who are disobedient to Christ
6 📚seeing it is a righteous thing for God to repay✭✭ tribulation to those who trouble you, 7 📚and give rest to you who are being troubled, along with us, when the Lord Jesus will be revealed✭✭ from heaven with his mighty angels✭, 8 📚in flaming fire✭ taking vengeance✭ on those who do not know God✭ and who do not obey the gospel✭ of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 📚They will be punished with everlasting destruction✭ from the presence of the Lord✭, and from the glory of his power✭,
Christ will be glorified in His people
10 📚when he comes to be glorified✭ in his saints✭ and admired✭ among all believers✭ (because our testimony among you was believed)✭, in that day✭.
Paul’s prayer for them and the reason for it
11 📚Therefore we always pray✭ also for you that our God would count you worthy✭ of this calling✭, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power✭, 12 📚that the name✭ of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you✭, and you in him✭, according to the grace✭ of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.