Beginning

1 Paul and Silvanus, and Timothy, To the Church of the Thessalonians, which is in God our Father, and in the Lord Jesus Christ:

² Grace be with you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

³ We ought to thank God always for you, brothers (as is fitting), because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of you toward each other abounds.

⁴ So that we ourselves rejoice over you in the churches of God because of your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that you suffer.

⁵ (a sign of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the Kingdom of God, for which you also suffer).

⁶ For it is a righteous thing with God to repay those who trouble you with tribulation.

⁷ And to you who are troubled: rest with us when the Lord Jesus shall show Himself from Heaven with His mighty angels

⁸ in flaming fire, rendering vengeance on those who do not know God and who do not obey the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ;

⁹ who shall be punished with everlasting perdition from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power

¹⁰ when He shall, on that Day, come to be glorified in His saints and made marvelous in all those who believe, because our testimony toward you was believed.

¹¹ Therefore, we pray always for you that our God may make you worthy of this calling and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness, and the work of faith, with power;

¹² so that the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and of the Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Now we urge you, brothers, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (and by our assembling to Him),

² to not waver suddenly in your mind or be troubled by spirit or word or letter which seems to come from us, as though the day of Christ were at hand.

³ Let no one deceive you in any way. For that Day shall not come unless an apostasy comes first and the man of sin is revealed - the Son of Perdition -

⁴ who is an adversary and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshipped; so that he sits as God, in the Temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

⁵ Do you not remember that when I was still with you, I told you these things?

⁶ And now you know what is restrained, so that he might be revealed in his time.

⁷ For the mystery of iniquity is already at work. He who is now restrained shall be so only until He is taken out of the way.

⁸ And then that wicked man shall be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the Spirit of His mouth and abolish with the brightness of His coming;

⁹ that is, whose coming is by the working of Satan (with all power and signs and lying wonders)

¹⁰ and in all deceit of unrighteousness among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth (so that they might be saved).

¹¹ And therefore, God shall send them strong delusion, so that they would believe lies,

¹² so that all who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness might be damned.

¹³ But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers (beloved of the Lord) because God has chosen you for salvation from the beginning, through sanctification of the Spirit and the faith of truth;

¹⁴ to which He called you by our Gospel to obtain the Glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁵ Therefore, brothers, stand fast and keep the instructions which you have been taught, either by word or by our letter.

¹⁶ Now may the same Jesus Christ our Lord, and our God, even the Father, Who has loved us and has given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,

¹⁷ comfort your hearts and establish you in every word and good work.

3 Furthermore, brothers, pray for us; so that the Word of the Lord may have free passage and be glorified (just as with you)

² and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and evil men. For all do not have faith.

³ But the Lord, Who will establish you and keep you from evil, is faithful.

⁴ And we are persuaded by you through the Lord that you both do and will do the things of which we warn you.

⁵ And the Lord guide your hearts to the love of God and the awaiting of Christ.

⁶ We charge you, brothers, in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks inordinately and not according to the instruction he received from us.

⁷ For you yourselves know how you ought to follow us. For we did not behave inordinately among you.

⁸ Nor did we take food from anyone for nothing. But we worked with labor and travail night and day because we did not wish to be a burden to any of you.

⁹ Not because we do not have authority, but so that we might make ourselves an example for you to follow.

¹⁰ For even when we were with you, we warned you of this; that if there were any who would not work, he should not eat.

¹¹ For we hear that there are some who walk among you inordinately and do not work at all, but are busybodies.

¹² Therefore, such as those we warn and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that they work with quietness and eat their own food.

¹³ And you, brothers, do not be weary in well-doing.

¹⁴ If anyone does not obey this our word in this letter, note him and do not associate with him, so that he may be ashamed.

¹⁵ Yet, do not count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

¹⁶ Now, may the Lord - Himself of peace - give you peace always, by all means. The Lord be with you all.

¹⁷ The salutation of me, Paul, with my own hand (which is the sign in every letter) so I write.

¹⁸ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. The second Epistle to the Thessalonians, written from Athens.