Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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1 From Paul, Silas, and Timothy—
1 To the people of the church in
Thessalonica, who belong to God
our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ: note
2 May God our Father and the
Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and
peace.
The Judgment at Christ's Coming
3 Our brothers, we must thank
God at all times for you. It is right
for us to do so, because your faith is
growing so much and the love each
of you has for the others is becoming
greater.
4 That is why we ourselves
boast about you in the churches of
God. We boast about the way you
continue to endure and believe
through all the persecutions and sufferings
you are experiencing.
5 All of this proves that God's
judgment is just and as a result you
will become worthy of his Kingdom,
for which you are suffering.
6 God
will do what is right: he will bring
suffering on those who make you
suffer,
7 and he will give relief to you
who suffer and to us as well. He will
do this when the Lord Jesus appears
from heaven with his mighty angels,
8 with a flaming fire, to punish those
who reject God and who do not obey
the Good News about our Lord
Jesus.
9 They will suffer the
punishment of eternal destruction,
separated from the presence of the
Lord and from his glorious might, note
10 when he comes on that Day to
receive glory from all his people and
honor from all who believe. You too
will be among them, because you
have believed the message that we
told you.
11 That is why we always pray for
you. We ask our God to make you
worthy of the life he has called you
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to live. May he fulfill by his power all
your desire for goodness and complete
your work of faith.
12 In this
way the name of our Lord Jesus will
receive glory from you, and you
from him, by the grace of our God
and of the Lord note Jesus Christ.
Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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