Bible Gateway passage: 2 Thessalonians 1 - New International Version (2024)

1Paul, Silas^[a](A) and Timothy,^(B)

To the church of the Thessalonians^(C) in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:

²Grace and peace to you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.^(D)

Thanksgiving and Prayer

³We ought always to thank God for you,^(E) brothers and sisters,^[b] and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing.^{(F) 4}Therefore, among God’s churches we boast^(G) about your perseverance and faith^(H) in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring.^(I)

⁵All this is evidence^(J) that God’s judgment is right, and as a result you will be counted worthy^(K) of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering. ⁶God is just:^(L) He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you^{(M) 7}and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven^(N) in blazing fire^(O) with his powerful angels.^{(P) 8}He will punish^(Q) those who do not know God^(R) and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.^{(S) 9}They will be punished with everlasting destruction^(T) and shut out from the presence of the Lord^(U) and from the glory of his might^{(V) 10}on the day^(W) he comes to be glorified^(X) 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.^(Y)

¹¹With this in mind, we constantly pray for you,^(Z) that our God may make you worthy^(AA) of his calling,^(AB) and that by his power he may bring to fruition your every desire for goodness^(AC) and your every deed prompted by faith.^{(AD) 12}We pray this so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you,^(AE) and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.^[c]

Footnotes

1. 2 Thessalonians 1:1 Greek Silvanus, a variant of Silas
2. 2 Thessalonians 1:3 The Greek word for brothers and sisters (adelphoi) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God’s family; also in 2:1, 13, 15; 3:1, 6, 13.
3. 2 Thessalonians 1:12 Or God and Lord, Jesus Christ

Cross references

1. 2 Thessalonians 1:1 : S Ac 15:22
2. 2 Thessalonians 1:1 : S Ac 16:1; 1Th 1:1
3. 2 Thessalonians 1:1 : S Ac 17:1
4. 2 Thessalonians 1:2 : S Ro 1:7
5. 2 Thessalonians 1:3 : S Ro 1:8; Eph 5:20
6. 2 Thessalonians 1:3 : S 1Th 3:12
7. 2 Thessalonians 1:4 : 2Co 7:14
8. 2 Thessalonians 1:4 : 1Th 1:3
9. 2 Thessalonians 1:4 : 1Th 1:6; 2:14; S 3:3
10. 2 Thessalonians 1:5 : Php 1:28
11. 2 Thessalonians 1:5 : Lk 20:35
12. 2 Thessalonians 1:6 : Lk 18:7, 8
13. 2 Thessalonians 1:6 : Ro 12:19; Col 3:25; S Rev 6:10
14. 2 Thessalonians 1:7 : S Lk 17:30
15. 2 Thessalonians 1:7 : Heb 10:27; S 12:29; 2Pe 3:7; S Rev 1:14
16. 2 Thessalonians 1:7 : Jude 14
17. 2 Thessalonians 1:8 : Ps 79:6; Isa 66:15; Jer 10:25
18. 2 Thessalonians 1:8 : S Gal 4:8
19. 2 Thessalonians 1:8 : Ro 2:8; S 2Co 2:12
20. 2 Thessalonians 1:9 : Php 3:19; 1Th 5:3; 2Pe 3:7
21. 2 Thessalonians 1:9 : 2Ki 17:18
22. 2 Thessalonians 1:9 : Isa 2:10, 19; 2Th 2:8
23. 2 Thessalonians 1:10 : 1Co 3:13
24. 2 Thessalonians 1:10 : Jn 17:10
25. 2 Thessalonians 1:10 : 1Co 1:6
26. 2 Thessalonians 1:11 : S Ro 1:10
27. 2 Thessalonians 1:11 : ver 5
28. 2 Thessalonians 1:11 : S Ro 8:28
29. 2 Thessalonians 1:11 : Ro 15:14
30. 2 Thessalonians 1:11 : 1Th 1:3
31. 2 Thessalonians 1:12 : Isa 24:15; Php 2:9-11