2 Thessalonians 1 ASV
Summary: Paul again thanks God for the Thessalonians' growing faith and increasing love for one another amid ongoing persecutions and afflictions, holding them up as an example of steadfastness. He assures them that this suffering is evidence of God's righteous judgment, which will one day repay affliction to their persecutors and grant relief to the afflicted when Jesus is revealed from heaven in flaming fire. Those who do not know God or obey the gospel will suffer eternal destruction away from the Lord's presence, while Christ will be glorified in his saints. The chapter closes with a prayer that God would fulfill their calling and work of faith by his power.
1Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ;
2Grace to you and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3We are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, even as it is meet, for that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all toward one another aboundeth;
4so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which ye endure;
5which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God; to the end that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:
6if so be that it is a righteous thing with God to recompense affliction to them that afflict you,
7and to you that are afflicted rest with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with the angels of his power in flaming fire,
8rendering vengeance to them that know not God, and to them that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus:
9who shall suffer punishment, even eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
10when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be marvelled at in all them that believed (because our testimony unto you was believed) in that day.
11To which end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfil every desire of goodness and every work of faith, with power;
12that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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