2 Thessalonians 1:1 — 2 Thessalonians 2:8
1 aPaul and Silvanus and Timothy to the 1church of the 2Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 We ought to athank God always concerning you, brothers, even as it is fitting, because your 1bfaith grows exceedingly and the love of each one of you all to one another is increasing,
4 So that we ourselves aboast in you among the churches of God concerning your 1endurance and faith in all your bpersecutions and the afflictions which you bear,
5 A plain aindication of the 1righteous judgment of God, that you may be accounted bworthy of the 2ckingdom of God, for which also you suffer;
6 Since it is just with God to repay with affliction those afflicting you,
7 And to you who are being afflicted, 1rest with us at the arevelation of the Lord Jesus from bheaven with the cangels of His power, in flaming dfire,
8 Rendering vengeance to those who do anot know God and to those who do not bobey the gospel of our Lord Jesus 1Christ.
9 They will pay the penalty of eternal adestruction from the 1presence of the Lord and from the bglory of His strength
10 When He acomes to be 1bglorified in His saints and to be marveled at in all those who have believed (because our ctestimony to you was believed) in dthat day.
11 For which also we apray always concerning you, that our God may count you bworthy of your calling and may fulfill in cpower your every 1good intention for goodness and your dwork of faith,
12 So that the aname of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the 1grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
CHAPTER 2
1 Now we ask you, brothers, 1with regard to the 2acoming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our bgathering together 3to Him,
2 That you be not quickly shaken 1in mind nor alarmed, neither by a 2aspirit nor by word nor by a letter as if by us, to the effect that the 3day of the Lord has come.
3 Let no one 1deceive you in any way, because it will not come unless the 2aapostasy comes first and the 3man of blawlessness is revealed, the cson of dperdition,
4 Who opposes and 1aexalts himself above all that is called bGod or an object of worship, so that he csits in the 2dtemple of God, setting himself forth, saying that ehe is God.
5 Do you not remember that while I was still with you, I said these things to you?
6 And now you know that which 1restrains, so that he might be revealed in his own 2time.
7 For it is the 1mystery of alawlessness that is now operating, but only until the one now restraining 2goes out of the way.
8 And then the alawless one will be revealed (whom the Lord Jesus will 1slay by the 2bbreath of His cmouth and dbring to nothing by the 3manifestation of His 4ecoming),