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

Grace and peace to you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good thing you do or say.

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

The arrival of the lawless one will be by Satan’s working with all kinds of miracles and signs and false wonders,

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

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,

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.

and then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will destroy by the breath of his mouth and wipe out by the manifestation of his arrival.

Finally, pray for us, brothers and sisters, that the Lord’s message may spread quickly and be honored as in fact it was among you,

and we did not eat anyone’s food without paying. Instead, in toil and drudgery we worked night and day in order not to burden any of you.

And so you know what holds him back, so that he will be revealed in his own time.

Yet do not regard him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

As a result we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and afflictions you are enduring.

They will undergo the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his strength,

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

Consequently God sends on them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false.

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

But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one.