2 Thessalonians 1

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Paul and Silvanus and Timothy--unto the assembly of Thessalonians, in God our Father and Lord Jesus Christ,--

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Favour unto you, and peace, from God our Father and Lord Jesus Christ.

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We are bound, to be giving thanks, unto God, continually, concerning you, brethren, even as it is, meet; because your faith groweth exceedingly, and the
love of each one of you all one to another aboundeth,

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So that, we ourselves, in you, are boasting, in the assemblies of God, over your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations which ye
are sustaining:--

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A proof of the righteous judgment of God, to the end ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, in behalf of which ye are also suffering:--

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If, at least, it is a, righteous thing with God, to recompense, affliction, unto them that afflict you,

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And, unto you that are afflicted, release, with us,--by the revealing of the Lord Jesus from heaven, with his messengers of power,

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In a fiery flame; holding forth vengeance--against them that refuse to know God, and them who decline to hearken unto the glad-message of our Lord Jesus,

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Who, indeed, a penalty, shall pay--age-abiding destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might--

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Whensoever he shall come, to be made all-glorious in his saints, and to be marvelled at in all who believed,--because our witness unto you was believed,--in
that day.

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Unto which end, we are also praying continually for you, that our God may count, you, worthy of your calling, and fulfil every good-pleasure of goodness
and work of faith, with power,--

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That the name of our Lord Jesus may be made all-glorious in you, and, ye, in him, according o the favour of our God and Lord Jesus Christ.
