CHAPTER 11 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church
of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
2 Grace
unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 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;
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:
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:
6 Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation
to them that trouble you;
7 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when
the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
8 In
flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not
the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
9 Who shall be punished with everlasting
destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
10
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.
11 Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count
you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness,
and the work of faith with power:
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 the Lord Jesus Christ.
CHAPTER 2
1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming
of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
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.
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;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called
God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God,
shewing himself that he is God.
5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet
with you, I told you these things?
6 And now ye know what withholdeth that
he might be revealed in his time.
7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already
work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with
the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
9
Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs
and lying wonders,
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.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion,
that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed
not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
13 But we are bound
to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because
God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification
of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
14 Whereunto he called you by our
gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
15 Therefore,
brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught,
whether by word, or our epistle.
16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself,
and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting
consolation and good hope through grace,
17 Comfort your hearts, and stablish
you in every good word and work.
CHAPTER 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:
2 And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men:
for all men have not faith.
3 But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish
you, and keep you from evil.
4 And we have confidence in the Lord touching
you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you.
5 And
the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting
for Christ.
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 of us.
7 For yourselves know
how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among
you;
8 Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour
and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:
9
Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you
to follow us.
10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you,
that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
11 For we hear that
there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are
busybodies.
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.
13
But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.
14 And if any man obey not
our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that
he may be ashamed.
15 Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as
a brother.
16 Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all
means. The Lord be with you all.
17 The salutation of Paul with mine own
hand, which is the token in every epistle: so I write.
18 The grace of
our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.