2 Thessalonians 1:1-12.
2 Thessalonians 1:1-12 (Good News Translation)
1From Paul, Silas, and Timothy—
To the people of the church in Thessalonica, who belong to God
our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
2May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace
and peace.
3Our friends, we must thank God at all times for you. It is
right for us to do so, because your faith is growing so much and the love
each of you has for the others is becoming greater.
4That is why we ourselves boast about you in the churches of
God. We boast about the way you continue to endure and believe through all
the persecutions and sufferings you are experiencing.
5All of this proves that God's judgment is just and as a result
you will become worthy of his Kingdom, for which you are suffering.
6God will do what is right: he will bring suffering on those
who make you suffer,
7and he will give relief to you who suffer and to us as well.
He will do this when the Lord Jesus appears from heaven with his mighty
angels,
8with a flaming fire, to punish those who reject God and who do
not obey the Good News about our Lord Jesus.
9They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction,
separated from the presence of the Lord and from his glorious might,
10when he comes on that Day to receive glory from all his
people and honor from all who believe. You too will be among them, because
you have believed the message that we told you.
11That is why we always pray for you. We ask our God to make
you worthy of the life he has called you to live. May he fulfill by his
power all your desire for goodness and complete your work of faith.
12In this way the name of our Lord Jesus will receive glory
from you, and you from him, by the grace of our God and of the Lord
Jesus Christ.
God bless you.
1From Paul, Silas, and Timothy—
To the people of the church in Thessalonica, who belong to God
our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
2May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace
and peace.
3Our friends, we must thank God at all times for you. It is
right for us to do so, because your faith is growing so much and the love
each of you has for the others is becoming greater.
4That is why we ourselves boast about you in the churches of
God. We boast about the way you continue to endure and believe through all
the persecutions and sufferings you are experiencing.
5All of this proves that God's judgment is just and as a result
you will become worthy of his Kingdom, for which you are suffering.
6God will do what is right: he will bring suffering on those
who make you suffer,
7and he will give relief to you who suffer and to us as well.
He will do this when the Lord Jesus appears from heaven with his mighty
angels,
8with a flaming fire, to punish those who reject God and who do
not obey the Good News about our Lord Jesus.
9They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction,
separated from the presence of the Lord and from his glorious might,
10when he comes on that Day to receive glory from all his
people and honor from all who believe. You too will be among them, because
you have believed the message that we told you.
11That is why we always pray for you. We ask our God to make
you worthy of the life he has called you to live. May he fulfill by his
power all your desire for goodness and complete your work of faith.
12In this way the name of our Lord Jesus will receive glory
from you, and you from him, by the grace of our God and of the Lord
Jesus Christ.
God bless you.
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