Greeting
2 Thessalonians 1Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace and peace to y’all from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Thanksgiving and Prayer
We should always give thanks to God for y’all, siblings, and rightly so, because y’all’s faith is flourishing and the love y’all have toward one another keeps growing, such that in God’s churches we boast about y’all’s perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and oppressions y’all are enduring. This is clear evidence of God’s righteous judgment that y’all will be counted worthy of the Empire of God, for which y’all are suffering, since it is righteous for God to repay with affliction those who afflict y’all and to give relief to y’all who are afflicted with us. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels. In a blazing fire, he will punish those who don’t know God and who don’t obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, separated from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his strength, when he comes to be glorified in his saints on that day and to be marveled at among all those who have believed, because our testimony among y’all was believed.
To this end, we pray for y’all constantly that our God would make y’all worthy of your* calling, and by ʜɪꜱ power fulfill your every desire for goodness and the work of faith, so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in y’all, and y’all in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.