
The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians

   {1:1} Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the church of the
Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ; {1:2} Grace
to you and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. {1:3}
We are bound to give thanks to God always to you, brethren, even as it
is meet, for that your faith growth exceedingly, and the love of each
one of you all toward one another aboundeth; {1:4} so that we ourselves
glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all
your persecutions and in the afflictions which ye endure; {1:5} [which
is] a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God; to the end that
ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also
suffer: {1:6} if so be that it is a righteous thing with God to
recompense affliction to them that afflict you, {1:7} and to you that
are afflicted rest with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from
heaven with the angels of his power in flaming fire, {1:8} rendering
vengeance to them that know not God, and to them that obey not the
gospel of our Lord Jesus: {1:9} who shall suffer punishment, [even]
eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his
might, {1:10} when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to
be marvelled at in all them that believed (because our testimony unto
you was believed) in that day. {1:11} To which end we also pray always
for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfil
every desire of goodness and [every] work of faith, with power; {1:12}
that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and ye in him,
according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.



   {2:1} Now we beseech you, brethren, touching the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ, and our gathering together unto him; {2:2} to the end
that ye be not quickly shaken from your mind, nor yet be troubled,
either by spirit, or by word, or by epistle as from us, as that the day
of the Lord is just at hand; {2:3} let no man beguile you in any wise:
for [it will not be,] except the falling away come first, and the man
of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, {2:4} he that opposeth and
exalteth himself against all that is called God or that is worshipped;
so that he sitteth in the temple of God, setting himself forth as God.
{2:5} Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these
things? {2:6} And now ye know that which restraineth, to the end that
he may be revealed in his own season. {2:7} For the mystery of
lawlessness doth already work: only [there is] one that restraineth
now, until he be taken out of the way. {2:8} And then shall be revealed
the lawless one, whom the Lord Jesus shall slay with the breath of his
mouth, and bring to nought by the manifestation of his coming; {2:9}
[even he], whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all
power and signs and lying wonders, {2:10} and with all deceit of
unrighteousness for them that perish; because they received not the
love of the truth, that they might be saved. {2:11} And for this cause
God sendeth them a working of error, that they should believe a lie:
{2:12} that they all might be judged who believed not the truth, but
had pleasure in unrighteousness. {2:13} But we are bound to give thanks
to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, for that God chose
you from the beginning unto salvation in sanctification of the Spirit
and belief of the truth: {2:14} whereunto he called you through our
gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. {2:15}
So then, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye were
taught, whether by word, or by epistle of ours. {2:16} Now our Lord
Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father who loved us and gave us
eternal comfort and good hope through grace, {2:17} comfort your hearts
and establish them in every good work and word.



   {3:1} Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may
run and be glorified, even as also [it is] with you; {3:2} and that we
may be delivered from unreasonable and evil men; for all have not
faith. {3:3} But the Lord is faithful, who shall establish you, and
guard you from the evil [one]. {3:4} And we have confidence in the Lord
touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command.
{3:5} And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into
the patience of Christ. {3:6} Now we command you, brethren, in the name
of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every
brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which they
received of us. {3:7} For yourselves know how ye ought to imitate us:
for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you; {3:8} neither did we
eat bread for nought at any man's hand, but in labor and travail,
working night and day, that we might not burden any of you: {3:9} not
because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an ensample unto
you, that ye should imitate us. {3:10} For even when we were with you,
this we commanded you, If any will not work, neither let him eat.
{3:11} For we hear of some that walk among you disorderly, that work
not at all, but are busybodies. {3:12} Now them that are such we
command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they
work, and eat their own bread. {3:13} But ye, brethren, be not weary in
well-doing. {3:14} And if any man obeyeth not our word by this epistle,
note that man, that ye have no company with him, to the end that he may
be ashamed. {3:15} And [yet] count him not as an enemy, but admonish
him as a brother. {3:16} Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace
at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all. {3:17} The
salutation of me Paul with mine own hand, which is the token in every
epistle: so I write. {3:18} The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with
you all.




