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1:1 Paul, /1 Silas, and Timothy: To the Church of the
 Thessalonians which is in God our Father and the Lord Jesus
 Christ.
1:2 May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father
 and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1:3 Unceasing thanks are due from us to God on your behalf,
 brethren. They are appropriate because your faith is growing
 greatly, and the love of every one of you for all the others
 goes on increasing.
1:4 It so increases that we ourselves make honourable mention of
 you among the Churches of God because of your patience and
 faith amid all your persecutions and amid the afflictions which
 you are enduring.
1:5 For these are a plain token of God's righteous judgement,
 which has in view your being deemed worthy of admission to
 God's Kingdom, for the sake of which, indeed, you are
 sufferers.
1:6 A plain token of God's righteous judgement, I say, since it
 is a righteous thing for Him to requite with affliction those
 who are now afflicting you;
1:7 and to requite with rest you who are suffering affliction
 now--rest with us at the /2 re-appearing of the Lord Jesus from
 Heaven, attended by His mighty angels.
1:8 He will come in flames of fire to take vengeance on those
 who have no knowledge of God, and do not obey the Good News as
 to Jesus, our Lord.

1:9 They will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, being
 banished from the presence of the Lord and from /1 His glorious
 majesty,
1:10 when He /2 comes on that day to be glorified in His people
 and to be wondered at among all who /3 have believed, including
 you--because you believed the testimony which we brought for
 your acceptance.
1:11 It is with this view also that we continually pray to our
 God for you, asking that He will count you worthy of His call,
 and by His mighty power fully gratify your every desire for
 what is truly good and make your work of faith complete;
1:12 in order that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified
 in you, and that you may be glorified in Him--so wonderful is
 the grace of our God and of the Lord Jesus Christ!
2:1 But with respect to the Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and
 /4 our being /5 gathered to meet Him, we entreat you, brethren,
2:2 not readily to become unsettled in mind or troubled--either
 by any pretended spiritual revelation or by any message or
 letter claiming to have been sent by us--through fancying that
 the day of the Lord is now here.
2:3 Let no one in any way deceive you, for that day cannot come
 without the coming of the apostasy first, and /6 the appearing
 of /7 the man of sin, the son of perdition, who sets himself
 against,
2:4 and exalts himself above, every so-called `god' or object of
 worship, and goes the length of taking his seat in the very
 temple of God, giving it out that he himself is God.
2:5 Do you not remember that while I was still with you I used
 to tell you all this?
2:6 And now you know /8 what restrains him, in order that his
 true character may be revealed at his appointed time.
2:7 For lawlessness is already at work in secret; but only until
 the man who is now exercising a restraining influence is
 removed,

2:8 and then the Lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord
 Jesus will sweep away with the /1 tempest of His anger, and
 utterly overwhelm by the awful splendour of His Coming.
2:9 The appearing of the Lawless one will be attended by various
 miracles and tokens and delusive marvels--for so Satan works--
2:10 and by every kind of wicked deception for those who are on
 the way to perdition because they did not welcome into their
 hearts the love of the truth, so that they might be saved.
2:11 And for this reason God sends them a misleading influence
 that they may believe /2 the lie;
2:12 in order that all may come under judgement who have refused
 to believe the truth and have taken pleasure in
 unrighteousness.
2:13 And from us thanks are always due to God on your
 behalf--brethren whom the Lord loves--because God /3 from the
 beginning has chosen you for salvation /4 through the Spirit's
 sanctifying influence and your belief in the truth.
2:14 To this blessing God has called you by our Good News, so
 that you may have a share in the glory of our Lord Jesus
 Christ.
2:15 So then, brethren, stand your ground, and hold fast to the
 teachings which you have received from us, whether by word of
 mouth or by letter.
2:16 And may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself--and God our Father
 who has loved us and has given us in His grace eternal
 consolation and a bright hope--
2:17 comfort your hearts and make you stedfast in every good
 work and word.
3:1 Finally, brethren, pray for us, asking that the Lord's
 Message /5 may be spread rapidly and its glory be displayed, as
 it was displayed among you;
3:2 and that we may be delivered from wrong-headed and wicked
 men; for it is not everybody who has faith.
3:3 But the Lord is faithful, and He will make you stedfast and
 will guard you from the Evil one.

3:4 And we have confidence in the Lord in regard to you that you
 are doing, and will do, what we command.
3:5 And may the Lord guide your hearts into the love of God and
 into the patience of Christ.
3:6 But, /1 by the authority of /2 the Lord, we command you,
 brethren, to stand aloof from every brother whose life is
 disorderly and not in accordance with the teaching which all
 received from us.
3:7 For you yourselves know that it is your duty to follow our
 example. There was no disorder in our lives among you,
3:8 nor did we eat any one's bread /3 without paying for it, but
 we laboured and toiled, working hard night and day in order not
 to be a burden to any of you.
3:9 This was not because we had not /4 a claim upon you, but it
 arose from a desire to set you an example--for you to imitate
 us.
3:10 For even when we were with you, we laid down this rule for
 you: "If a man does not choose to work, neither shall he eat."
3:11 For we hear that there are some of you who live disorderly
 lives and are mere idle busybodies.
3:12 To persons of that sort our injunction--and our command by
 the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ--is that they are to
 work quietly and eat their own honestly-earned bread.
3:13 But you, brethren, must not grow weary /5 in the path of
 duty;
3:14 and if any one refuses to obey these our written
 instructions, mark that man and hold no communication with
 him--so that he may be made to feel ashamed.
3:15 And yet do not regard him as an enemy, but caution him as a
 brother.
3:16 And may the Lord of peace Himself continually grant you
 peace in every sense. The Lord be with you all.
3:17 I Paul add the greeting with my own hand, which is the
 credential in every letter of mine.
3:18 This is my handwriting. May the grace of our Lord Jesus
 Christ be with you all.