1:1 From Paul 1 and Silvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians 2 in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 1:2 Grace and peace to you 3 from God the 4 Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!
1:3 We ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters, 5 and rightly so, 6 because your faith flourishes more and more and the love of each one of you all for one another is ever greater. 1:4 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.
1:5 This is evidence of God’s righteous judgment, to make you worthy 7 of the kingdom of God, for which in fact you are suffering. 1:6 For it is right 8 for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you, 1:7 and to you who are being afflicted to give rest together with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed 9 from heaven with his mighty angels. 10 1:8 With flaming fire he will mete out 11 punishment on those who do not know God 12 and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 1:9 They 13 will undergo the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his strength, 14