帖撒罗尼迦后书 1
Chinese Standard Bible (Simplified)
问安
1 保罗、赛拉斯、提摩太，
致那在神我们的父和主耶稣基督里的帖撒罗尼迦人的教会：
2 愿恩典与平安从神我们的父和主耶稣基督临到你们！
主的报偿
3 弟兄们，我们应该为你们常常感谢神，这样做是合宜的，因为你们的信仰格外增长，你们大家每一个人彼此的爱也在增加。 4 所以，我们自己在神的各教会中以你们夸耀，因为你们在一切的逼迫和患难中保持着你们的忍耐和信仰。 5 这正是神公义审判的证据，好使你们算是配得上神的国；你们也正是为此而受苦害的。 6 神既然真是公义的，当主耶稣与他有大能的天使们一起从天上显现的时候，他就要以患难回报那些加患难给你们的人， 7 也要使你们这些受患难的人与我们一同得到安息[a]。 8 神要在烈火中报应那些不认识神的人，以及那些不顺从我们主耶稣[b]福音的人； 9 他们将受到刑罚，就是永远的灭亡，从主面前被隔绝，离开他权能的荣耀。 10 在那日，主来临的时候，要藉着他的圣徒得着荣耀，又藉着所有的信徒令人惊奇——因为你们相信了我们对你们所做的见证。 11 为此，我们也常常为你们祷告：愿我们的神把你们看为配得他的召唤，并且以他的大能成全你们一切美好的心愿和一切信仰的行为， 12 好使我们主耶稣[c]的名，照着我们的神和主耶稣基督的恩典，因你们得着荣耀，你们也因他得着荣耀。
Footnotes
- 帖撒罗尼迦后书 1:7 安息——或译作“释放”或“宽免”。
- 帖撒罗尼迦后书 1:8 耶稣——有古抄本作“耶稣基督”。
- 帖撒罗尼迦后书 1:12 耶稣——有古抄本作“耶稣基督”。
2 Thessalonians 1
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
I. Address
Chapter 1
Greeting.[a] 1 Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:(A) 2 grace to you and peace from God [our] Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Thanksgiving. 3 [b]We ought to thank God always for you, brothers, as is fitting, because your faith flourishes ever more, and the love of every one of you for one another grows ever greater.(B) 4 Accordingly, we ourselves boast of you in the churches of God regarding your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and the afflictions you endure.
5 This is evidence of the just judgment of God, so that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God for which you are suffering.(C) 6 For it is surely just on God’s part to repay with afflictions those who are afflicting you, 7 and to grant rest along with us to you who are undergoing afflictions, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his mighty angels, 8 in blazing fire, inflicting punishment on those who do not acknowledge God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.(D) 9 These will pay the penalty of eternal ruin, separated from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power,(E) 10 when he comes to be glorified among his holy ones[c] and to be marveled at on that day among all who have believed, for our testimony to you was believed.(F)
Prayer. 11 To this end, we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling and powerfully bring to fulfillment every good purpose and every effort of faith,(G) 12 [d]that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him,(H) in accord with the grace of our God and Lord Jesus Christ.
Footnotes
- 1:1–2 On the address, see note on Rom 1:1–7 and cf. 1 Thes 1:1.
- 1:3–12 On the thanksgiving, see note on Rom 1:8 and cf. 1 Thes 1:2–10. Paul’s gratitude to God for the faith and love of the Thessalonians (2 Thes 1:3) and his Christian pride in their faithful endurance (2 Thes 1:4–5) contrast with the condemnation announced for those who afflict them, a judgment to be carried out at the parousia (2 Thes 1:6–10), which is described in vivid language drawn from Old Testament apocalyptic. A prayer for the fulfillment of God’s purpose in the Thessalonians (2 Thes 1:11–12) completes the section, as is customary in a Pauline letter (cf. 1 Thes 1:2–3).
- 1:10 Among his holy ones: in the Old Testament, this term can refer to an angelic throng (cf. also Jude 14), but here, in parallel with among all who have believed, it can refer to the triumphant people of God.
- 1:12 The grace of our God and Lord Jesus Christ: the Greek can also be translated, “the grace of our God and of the Lord Jesus Christ.”
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