¹ Paul and Silvanus and Timotheus to the assembly of Thessalonians in¹ God our Father and [the] Lord Jesus Christ.

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² Grace to you, and peace from¹ God our Father, and [the] Lord Jesus Christ.

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³ We ought to thank¹ God always for you, brethren, even as it is meet, because your faith increases exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all towards one another abounds;

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⁴ so that we ourselves make our boast in you in the assemblies of¹ God for your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations, which ye are sustaining;

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⁵ a manifest token of the righteous judgment of¹ God, to the end that ye should be counted worthy of the kingdom of² God, for the sake of which ye also suffer;

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⁶ if at least [it is a] righteous thing with¹ God to render tribulation to those that trouble you,

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⁷ and to you that are troubled repose with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven, with [the] angels of his power,

⁸ in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who know not¹ God, and those who do not obey the glad tidings of our Lord Jesus Christ;

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⁹ who shall pay the penalty [of] everlasting destruction from [the] presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his might,

¹⁰ when he shall have come to be glorified in his saints, and wondered at in all that have believed, (for our testimony to you has been believed,) in that day.

¹¹ To which end we also pray always for you, that our¹ God may count you worthy of the calling, and fulfil all [the] good pleasure of [his] goodness and [the] work of faith with power,

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¹² so that the name of our Lord Jesus [Christ] may be glorified in you and ye in him, according to the grace of our¹ God, and of [the] Lord Jesus Christ.

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