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2 Thessalonians 1
Paul, Silvanus, and Timotheus open by naming the source of grace and peace jointly as God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ — the two-name salutation that anchors prayer and covenant identity. The Thessalonian saints are commended for faith and charity that grows under active persecution, which Paul reads not as evidence of divine abandonment but as the very token of worthiness for the coming kingdom. The chapter closes with the apocalyptic frame: Jehovah-as-Christ will be revealed in flaming fire, taking vengeance on those who neither know God nor obey the gospel, while being glorified in His covenant saints in that day.
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Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
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Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
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So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:
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Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:
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Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
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And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
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In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
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Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
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When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
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Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:
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That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
