SECOND EPISTLE OF PAUL, THE APOSTLE, TO THE THESSALONIANS CHAPTER I.

[1 Paul's good opinion of their faith, love, and patience; 6 Of God's punishing 
their enemies, and recompensing their sufferings.]

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 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.