³We ought always to thank God for you,^e brothers and sisters,^b and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing.^f ⁴Therefore, among God’s churches we boast^g about your perseverance and faith^h in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring.ⁱ

⁵All this is evidence^j that God’s judgment is right, and as a result you will be counted worthy^k of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering. ⁶God is just:^l He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you^m ⁷and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heavenⁿ in blazing fire^o with his powerful angels.^p ⁸He will punish^q those who do not know God^r and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.^s ⁹They will be punished with everlasting destruction^t and shut out from the presence of the Lord^u and from the glory of his might^v ¹⁰on the day^w he comes to be glorified^x in his holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed. This includes you, because you believed our testimony to you.^y

¹¹With this in mind, we constantly pray for you,^z that our God may make you worthy^a of his calling,^b and that by his power he may bring to fruition your every desire for goodness^c and your every deed prompted by faith.^d ¹²We pray this so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you,^e and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.^c

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Footnotes

aGreek Silvanus, a variant of Silas
bThe Greek word for brothers and sisters (adelphoi) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God’s family; also in 2:1, 13, 15; 3:1, 6, 13.
cOr God and Lord, Jesus Christ

Cross references

aSee Ac 15:22
bSee Ac 16:1; 1 Th 1:1
cSee Ac 17:1
dSee Ro 1:7
eSee Ro 1:8; Eph 5:20
fSee 1 Th 3:12
g 2 Co 7:14
h 1 Th 1:3
i 1 Th 1:6; 2:14; See 3:3
j Php 1:28
k Lk 20:35
l Lk 18:7, 8
m Ro 12:19; Col 3:25; See Rev 6:10
nSee Lk 17:30
o Heb 10:27; See 12:29; 2 Pe 3:7; See Rev 1:14
p Jude 14
q Ps 79:6; Isa 66:15; Jer 10:25
rSee Gal 4:8
s Ro 2:8; See 2 Co 2:12
t Php 3:19; 1 Th 5:3; 2 Pe 3:7
u 2 Ki 17:18
v Isa 2:10, 19; 2 Th 2:8
w 1 Co 3:13
x Jn 17:10
y 1 Co 1:6
zSee Ro 1:10
aver 5
bSee Ro 8:28
c Ro 15:14
d 1 Th 1:3
e Isa 24:15; Php 2:9–11