Greeting

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace.

remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Nor did we seek glory from people, whether from you or from others, though we could have made demands as apostles of Christ.

For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews,

and we sent Timothy, our brother and God's coworker in the gospel of Christ, to establish and exhort you in your faith,

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.

For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.