The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians.
Chapter 1.
Paul in Silvanus and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians,
in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Grace unto you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your
faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other
aboundeth.
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.
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.
Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that
trouble you, and to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be
revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire, taking vengeance
on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord,
and from the glory of his power.
When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that
believe, because our testimony among you was believed in that day.
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, 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 the Lord Jesus Christ.