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- Paul, Silas and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
- Grace and peace to you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- We ought always to thank God for you, brothers, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love every one of you has for each other is increasing.
- Therefore, among God's churches we boast about your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring.
- All this is evidence that God's judgment is right, and as a result you will be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering.
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- Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
- Grace to you and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brethren, as is only fitting, because your faith is greatly enlarged, and the love of each one of you toward one another grows ever greater;
- therefore, we ourselves speak proudly of you among the churches of God for your perseverance and faith in the midst of all your persecutions and afflictions which you endure.
- This is a plain indication of God's righteous judgment so that you will be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which indeed you are suffering.
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- God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you
- and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels.
- He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
- They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty of his power
- on the day he comes to be glorified in his holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed. This includes you, because you believed our testimony to you.
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- For after all it is only just for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,
- and to give relief to you who are afflicted and to us as well when the Lord Jesus will be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels in flaming fire,
- dealing out retribution to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
- These will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power,
- when He comes to be glorified in His saints on that day, and to be marveled at among all who have believed--for our testimony to you was believed.
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- With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may count you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may fulfill every good purpose of yours and every act prompted by your faith.
- We pray this so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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- To this end also we pray for you always, that our God will count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire for goodness and the work of faith with power,
- so that the name of our Lord Jesus will be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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