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.

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

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.

But you, brothers and sisters, do not grow weary in doing what is right.

And so all of them who have not believed the truth but have delighted in evil will be condemned.

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

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

when he comes to be glorified among his saints and admired on that day among all who have believed – and you did in fact believe our testimony.

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

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

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

Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way. The Lord be with you all.

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

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.

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.

This is evidence of God’s righteous judgment, to make you worthy of the kingdom of God, for which in fact you are suffering.

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.

He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, and as a result he takes his seat in God’s temple, displaying himself as God.

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,

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,