New Testament

2 Thessalonians 1

Suffering, Judgment, and Coming Glory

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Overview

Paul greets the Thessalonians with an apostolic salutation proclaiming grace and peace from Father and Son, gives thanks for their steadfast faith and love under persecution as a visible sign of God's righteous judgment already at work, assures them that Christ's return in glory will bring just retribution upon persecutors and radiant vindication for believers, and closes with a prayer that God would complete every good work in them so that the name of Christ may be glorified in their lives.

Passages

1–2Bound Together in Grace and Peace 3–5Refined by Fire: Faith, Suffering, and the Worthy Life 6–10Fire and Glory: The Righteous Judgment of God at Christ's Parousia 11–12Worthy of the Calling: Intercession for the Glorification of Christ's Name

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2 Thessalonians 1

¹Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: ²Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

³We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds, ⁴so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure. ⁵This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of God’s Kingdom, for which you also suffer. ⁶For it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you, ⁷and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, ⁸punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus, ⁹who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might, ¹⁰when he comes in that day to be glorified in his saints and to be admired among all those who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.

¹¹To this end we also pray always for you that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power, ¹²that 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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