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📚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.