| International Standard Version | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1From: Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy. To: The church of the Thessalonians in union with God our Father and the Lord Jesus, the Messiah. | 1Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: |
| 2May grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, be yours! | 2Grace to you and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. |
| 3Brothers, at all times we are obligated to thank God for you. It is right to do this because your faith is growing all the time and the love every one of you has for each other is increasing. | 3We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brethren, as is only fitting, because your faith is greatly enlarged, and the love of each one of you toward one another grows ever greater; |
| 4As a result, we rejoice about you among God's churches—about your endurance and faith through all the persecutions and afflictions you are experiencing. | 4therefore, we ourselves speak proudly of you among the churches of God for your perseverance and faith in the midst of all your persecutions and afflictions which you endure. |
| 5This is evidence of God's righteous judgment and is intended to make you worthy of God's kingdom, for which you are suffering. | 5This is a plain indication of God's righteous judgment so that you will be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which indeed you are suffering. |
| 6Certainly it is right for God to pay back those who afflict you with affliction, | 6For after all it is only just for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you, |
| 7and to give us who are afflicted relief when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels | 7and to give relief to you who are afflicted and to us as well when the Lord Jesus will be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels in flaming fire, |
| 8in blazing fire. He will take revenge on those who do not know God and on those who refuse to obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. | 8dealing out retribution to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. |
| 9Such people will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction by being separated from the Lord's presence and from his glorious power | 9These will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power, |
| 10when he comes to be glorified by his saints and to be regarded with wonder on that day by all who have believed—including you, because you believed our testimony. | 10when He comes to be glorified in His saints on that day, and to be marveled at among all who have believed-- for our testimony to you was believed. |
| 11With this in mind, we always pray for you, asking that our God might make you worthy of his calling and that through his power he might help you accomplish every good desire and faithful action. | 11To this end also we pray for you always, that our God will count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire for goodness and the work of faith with power, |
| 12That way the name of our Lord Jesus will be glorified by you, and you by him, according to the grace of our God and Lord, Jesus, the Messiah. | 12so that the name of our Lord Jesus will be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. |
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