Dual Panel1TO the church of the Thessalonians, founded on God our Father and Jesus Christ the Lord, from Paul, Silvanus and Timothy;
2grace to you and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3My brothers, nowadays I always thank God for you not only in common fairness but as a moral obligation! Your faith has made such strides, and your love, each for all and all for each, has reached such proportions that
4we actually boast about you in the churches of God, because you have shown such endurance and faith in all the persecutions and troubles which you are now enduring.
5See how justly the judgment of God works out! He intends to use your suffering to prove you worthy of his kingdom.
6For God's justice will repay trouble to those who have troubled you,
7and give relief to all of us who, like you, have suffered. This judgment will issue in the final appearance of the Lord Jesus from Heaven with the angels of his power.
8He will bring full justice in dazzling flame upon those who have refused to recognise God or to obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
9Their punishment will be eternal lossexclusion from the radiance of the face of the Lord, and the glorious majesty of his power.
10But to those whom he has made holy his coming will mean splendor unimaginable. It will be a breathtaking wonder to all who believeincluding you, for you have believed the message that we have given you.
11In view of this we pray for you constantly, that God will count you worthy of his calling, and by his power may fulfill all your good intentions and every effort of faith.
12We pray that the name of our Lord Jesus may become more glorious through you, and that you may thus share something of his gloryall through the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.