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1I, Paul, am writing this letter. Silas and Timothy join me in writing. We are sending this letter to you, the members of the church in Thessalonica. You belong to God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.2May God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace.3Brothers and sisters, we should always thank God for you. That is only right, because your faith is growing more and more. The love you all have for each other is increasing.4So among God's churches we brag about the fact that you don't give up easily. We brag about your faith in all the suffering and testing you are going through.5All of this proves that when God judges, he is fair. So you will be considered worthy to enter God's kingdom. You are suffering for his kingdom.6God is fair. He will pay back trouble to those who give you trouble.7He will help you who are troubled. And he will also help us. All of those things will happen when the Lord Jesus appears from heaven. He will come in blazing fire. He will come with the angels who are given the power to do what God wants.8He will punish those who don't know God. He will punish those who don't obey the good news about our Lord Jesus.9They will be destroyed forever. They will be shut out of heaven. They will never see the glory of the Lord's power.10All of those things will happen when he comes. On that day his glory will be seen in his holy people. Everyone who has believed will be amazed when they see him. That includes you, because you believed the witness we gave you.11Keeping this in mind, we never stop praying for you. Our God has chosen you. We pray that he will consider you worthy of his choice. We pray that by his power he will make every good thing you have planned come true. We pray that he will make perfect all that you have done by faith.12We pray this so that the name of our Lord Jesus will receive glory through what you have done. We also pray that you will receive glory through what he has done. We pray all these things in keeping with the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1Brothers and sisters, we want to ask you something. It has to do with the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. It concerns the time when we will go to be with him.2What if you receive a prophecy, report or letter that is supposed to have come from us? What if it says that the day of the Lord has already come? If it does, we ask you not to become easily upset or alarmed.3Don't let anyone trick you in any way. That day will not come until people rise up against God. It will not come until the man of sin appears. He is a marked man. He is sentenced to be destroyed.4He will oppose everything that is called God. He will oppose everything that is worshiped. He will give himself power over everything. He will set himself up in God's temple. He will announce that he himself is God.5Don't you remember? When I was with you, I used to tell you those things.6Now you know what is holding the man of sin back. He is held back so that he can make his appearance at the right time.7The secret power of sin is already at work. But the one who now holds that power back will keep doing it until he is taken out of the way.8Then the man of sin will appear. The Lord Jesus will overthrow him with the breath of his mouth. The glorious brightness of Jesus' coming will destroy the man of sin.9The coming of the man of sin will be Satan's work. His work will be seen in all kinds of fake miracles, signs and wonders.10It will be seen in every kind of evil that fools people who are dying. They are dying because they refuse to love the truth. The truth would save them.11So God will fool them completely. Then they will believe the lie.12Many will not believe the truth. They will take pleasure in evil. They will be judged.13Brothers and sisters, we should always thank God for you. The Lord loves you. God chose you from the beginning. He wanted you to be saved. Salvation comes through the Holy Spirit's work. He makes people holy. It also comes through believing the truth.14He chose you to be saved by accepting the good news that we preach. And you will share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.15Brothers and sisters, stand firm. Hold on to what we taught you. We passed our teachings on to you by what we preached and wrote.16Our Lord Jesus Christ and God our Father loved us. By his grace God gave us comfort that will last forever. The hope he gave us is good. May our Lord Jesus Christ and God our Father17comfort your hearts. May they make you strong in every good thing you do and say.
1Finally, brothers and sisters, pray for us. Pray that the Lord's message will spread quickly. Pray that others will honor it just as you did.2And pray that we will be saved from sinful and evil people. Not everyone is a believer.3But the Lord is faithful. He will strengthen you. He will guard you from the evil one.4We trust in the Lord. So we are sure that you are doing the things we tell you to do. And we are sure that you will keep on doing them.5May the Lord fill your hearts with God's love. May Christ give you the strength to go on.6Brothers and sisters, here is a command we give you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Keep away from every believer who doesn't want to work. Keep away from anyone who doesn't live up to the teaching you received from us.7You know how you should follow our example. We worked when we were with you.8We didn't eat anyone's food without paying for it. In fact, it was just the opposite. We worked night and day. We worked very hard so that we wouldn't cause any expense to any of you.9We worked, even though we have the right to receive help from you. We did it in order to be a model for you to follow.10Even when we were with you, we gave you a rule. We said, "Anyone who will not work will not eat."11We hear that some people among you don't want to work. They aren't really busy. Instead, they are bothering others.12We belong to the Lord Jesus Christ. So we strongly command people like that to settle down. They have to earn the food they eat.13Brothers and sisters, don't ever get tired of doing the right thing.14Keep an eye on anyone who doesn't obey the directions in our letter. Watch that person closely. Have nothing to do with him. Then he will feel ashamed.15But don't think of him as an enemy. Instead, warn him as a brother or sister.16May the Lord who gives peace give you peace at all times and in every way. May the Lord be with all of you.17I, Paul, write this greeting in my own handwriting. That's how I prove that I am the author of all my letters. I always do it that way.18May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.