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- 1:1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, to the church of the
- Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
- 1:2 Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord
- Jesus Christ.
- 1:3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is
- meet, because your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity
- of every one of you all towards each other aboundeth;
- 1:4 So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God,
- for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and
- tribulations that ye endure:
- 1:5 [Which is] a manifest token of the righteous judgment of
- God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for
- which ye also suffer:
- 1:6 Seeing [it is] a righteous thing with God to recompense
- tribulation to them that trouble you;
- 1:7 And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord
- Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
- 1:8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God,
- and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
- 1:9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the
- presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
- 1:10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be
- admired by all them that believe (because our testimony among
- you was believed) in that day.
- 1:11 Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would
- count you worthy of [this] calling, and fulfill all the good
- pleasure of [his] goodness, and the work of faith with power:
- 1:12 That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in
- you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God, and of
- the Lord Jesus Christ.
- 2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord
- Jesus Christ, and [by] our gathering to him.
- 2:2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither
- by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the
- day of Christ is at hand.
- 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for [that day shall not
- come], except there come a falling away first, and that man of
- sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
- 2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called
- God, or that is worshiped; so that he as God sitteth in the
- temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
- 2:5 Remember ye not, that when I was yet with you, I told you
- these things?
- 2:6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed
- in his time.
- 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who
- now restraineth [will] restrain, until he be taken out of the
- way.
- 2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord will
- consume with the spirit of his mouth, and will destroy with the
- brightness of his coming:
- 2:9 [Even him], whose coming is after the working of Satan, with
- all power, and signs, and lying wonders,
- 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that
- perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that
- they might be saved.
- 2:11 And for this cause God will send them strong delusion, that
- they should believe a lie:
- 2:12 That they all may be damned who believed not the truth, but
- had pleasure in unrighteousness.
- 2:13 But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you,
- brethren, beloved by the Lord, because God hath from the
- beginning chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of
- the Spirit, and belief of the truth:
- 2:14 To which he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of
- the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- 2:15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions
- which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
- 2:16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our
- Father, who hath loved us, and hath given [us] everlasting
- consolation and good hope through grace,
- 2:17 Comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word
- and work.
- 3:1 Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord
- may have [free] course, and be glorified, even as [it is] with
- you;
- 3:2 And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked
- men: for all [men] have not faith.
- 3:3 But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you, and keep
- [you] from evil.
- 3:4 And we have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that ye
- both do and will do the things which we command you.
- 3:5 And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and
- into the patient waiting for Christ.
- 3:6 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus
- Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that
- walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he
- received from us.
- 3:7 For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we
- behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;
- 3:8 Neither did we eat any man's bread for naught; but wrought
- with labor and toil night and day, that we might not be
- chargeable to any of you:
- 3:9 Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves a
- pattern to you to follow us.
- 3:10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that
- if any would not work, neither should he eat.
- 3:11 For we hear that there are some who walk among you
- disorderly, working not at all, but are busy-bodies.
- 3:12 Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord
- Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own
- bread.
- 3:13 But ye, brethren, be not weary in well-doing.
- 3:14 And if any man obeyeth not our word by this epistle, note
- that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
- 3:15 Yet count [him] not as an enemy, but admonish [him] as a
- brother.
- 3:16 Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all
- means. The Lord [be] with you all.
- 3:17 The salutation of Paul with my own hand, which is the token
- in every epistle: so I write.
- 3:18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you all. Amen.
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