Now regarding the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to be with him, we ask you, brothers and sisters,

It was not because we do not have that right, but to give ourselves as an example for you to imitate.

For you know yourselves how you must imitate us, because we did not behave without discipline among you,

He called you to this salvation through our gospel, so that you may possess the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And we are confident about you in the Lord that you are both doing – and will do – what we are commanding.

I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand, which is how I write in every letter.

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by grace gave us eternal comfort and good hope,

that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

For even when we were with you, we used to give you this command: “If anyone is not willing to work, neither should he eat.”

Now such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to work quietly and so provide their own food to eat.

Surely you recall that I used to tell you these things while I was still with you.

and that we may be delivered from perverse and evil people. For not all have faith.

For we hear that some among you are living an undisciplined life, not doing their own work but meddling in the work of others.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.

And in this regard we pray for you always, that our God will make you worthy of his calling and fulfill by his power your every desire for goodness and every work of faith,

But we ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth.

But we command you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from any brother who lives an undisciplined life and not according to the tradition they received from us.

From Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore, brothers and sisters, stand firm and hold on to the traditions that we taught you, whether by speech or by letter.

and to you who are being afflicted to give rest together with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels.