1 From Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians in God who is our Father and in the lord Jesus Messiah:  2 Grace and peace to you from God who is the Father and from the lord Jesus Messiah.
   3 We should always give thanks to God for you, brothers and sisters, as is appropriate, because your faith is thriving, and the love of each one of you towards one another is growing.  4 So we speak proudly about you in the churches of God because of your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and afflictions which you are enduring.  5 This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, so that you may be made worthy of the Kingdom of God, for which you are now suffering.  6 For it is justice for God to repay with affliction those who are afflicting you, 7 and to give relief to you who are afflicted, together with us. He will do this when the lord Jesus will be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,[1308]  8 in flaming fire dealing out punishment[1309] to those who do not know God and do not obey the Gospel of our lord Jesus.  9 They will pay the penalty of the destruction of the age to come, dismissed from the presence of the lord and from the glory of his might,  10 when he comes on that Day to be glorified among his saints[1310] and admired among all those who have believed — and you did believe our Gospel-testimony. 11 With this in view we pray for you always, that our God will make you worthy of His call, and powerfully fulfill your every desire for goodness and every work of faith, 12 so that the name of our lord Jesus will be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the lord Jesus Messiah.