Paulus and Silvanus and Timotheos
to the assembly of Thessalonikans in God our Father and Lord Anointed Jesus.
1:2 Hello to you, and peace from God our Father and from Lord Anointed Jesus.
We are bound to thank God always about you, brothers, just as it is worthy, because your
trust is growing up, and love for one another is abundant in each one of all of you. And so, we
ourselves boast in you among God's assemblies on behalf of your endurance and trust during all
of your persecutions and afflictions that you are enduring: a token of God's just judgment, for
your being made worthy of God's kingdom. On its behalf you are also suffering--since it is just
with God to repay with affliction those who are afflicting you, and to repay you who are being
afflicted with rest with us (in the revelation of the Lord Jesus from the sky with messengers of
his power: in a flame of fire, giving retribution to those who do not know God and to those who
do not listen to the good message of Jesus our Lord.) They will pay a just thing, eternal
destruction away from the Lord's presence and from the glory of his strength--when he comes to
be glorified in his holy ones and to be wondered about in all those who have trusted, because our
testimony about you was trusted--during that day.
11 For this reason also, we are always praying about you, so that you would be worthy of the calling of our God and would fulfill every delight of goodness and every deed of trust with power, so that the name of our Lord, Jesus, would be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the generosity of the God of us and of Lord Anointed Jesus.
2:1 But we beg you, brothers, about the presence of our Lord, Anointed Jesus, and of our being gathered together to him:
that you not be quickly shaken from your mind nor be alarmed--neither through a spirit, nor through a message, nor through a letter (as through us)--as though the Lord's day were present.
3 No one should trick you by any means, because unless the Revolt should come first and the person of lawlessness be revealed--the son of destruction, the one who opposes and who lifts himself up above all things that are called a god or august, so as to seat himself in God's temple, displaying himself (that he is a god).
5 Don't you remember that I told you these things when I was being directed toward you? And now you know what is holding back: for his revelation in his season. For the secret of lawlessness is already working (until only the one who is holding back in the present should happen out of our midst). And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will consume with the breath of his mouth and deactivate with the appearance of his presence. The lawless one's presence is according to the working of the Enemy: with all kinds of false power and signs and wonders and with all kinds of unjust deception for those who are being destroyed. Against this, they did not receive the love of the truth for their salvation. And on account of this, God will send them a working of deceit, to the point of their trusting the lie, so that all those who do not trust the truth but who delighted in wrong would be judged.
13 Now we are bound to thank God always about you, brothers, beloved from Yahweh, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation, in the making holy of the spirit and the trust of truth. For this also, he called you, through our good message, to the point of obtaining the glory of our Lord, Anointed Jesus.
15 Then after all, brothers, stand and hold on to the traditions that you were taught, whether through a spoken message or through our letter.
Now may our Lord, Anointed Jesus himself, and God our Father--the one who loved us and gave eternal advice and a good hope (with generosity)--advise your hearts and establish you in every good deed and word.
3:1 What remains is this: pray, brothers, about us, so that the message of the Lord would run and be glorified, just as it also did toward you, and so that we would be rescued from the out of place and evil people. For the trust does not belong to all people.
But the Lord is trustworthy, who will establish and guard you from the evil one. Now we are persuaded in the Lord about you, because the things that we charge, you both are doing and will do. Now may Yahweh guide your hearts into the love of God and into the endurance of the Anointed One.
6 Now, brothers, we charge you in the name of our Lord, Anointed Jesus, to withdraw yourselves from every brother who is walking without order and not according to the tradition that was handed down by us. For you yourselves know how it is necessary to imitate us--that we were not disorderly among you, nor did we eat bread as a gift from anyone. On the contrary, we were working with toil and weariness, night and day, so as not to burden any of you. It is not because we do not have authority, but so that we would give ourselves a type for your imitation of us.
For also, when we were directed toward you, we charged you this: that if someone doesn't want to work, he should not dine either. For we hear of some people walking among you without order: neither working but being beyond work. Now we charge and advise such people in the Lord Anointed Jesus, so that they would dine on their bread after working with quietness. Now you, brothers, should not do a bad job of doing well.
14 But if someone does not listen to our message through the letter, point him out. Don't intermingle with him, so that he would be disgraced. And don't regard him as an enemy; on the contrary, admonish him as a brother.
Now may the Lord of Peace himself give you peace through everything in every way. May the Lord be with you all.
The greeting by my hand, that of Paulus, which is a sign in every letter. I write this way.
The favor of our Lord, Anointed Jesus, be with you all.
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