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- Paul, Silas and Timothy, To
the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
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- Grace and peace to you from
God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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- 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.
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- Therefore, among God's
churches we boast about your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions
and trials you are enduring.
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- 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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- God is just: He will pay back
trouble to those who trouble you
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- 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.
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- He will punish those who do
not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
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- They will be punished with
everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from
the majesty of his power
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- on the day he comes to be
glorified in his holy people and to be marvelled at among all those who have
believed. This includes you, because you believed our testimony to you.
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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.
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- 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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