| New International Version | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1Paul, Silas and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: | 1Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy: To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. |
| 2Grace and peace to you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. | 2Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. |
| 3We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing. | 3We must always thank God for you, brothers. This is right, since your faith is flourishing and the love each one of you has for one another is increasing. |
| 4Therefore, among God's churches we boast about your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring. | 4Therefore, we ourselves boast about you among God's churches--about your endurance and faith in all the persecutions and afflictions you endure. |
| 5All this is evidence that God's judgment is right, and as a result you will be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering. | 5It is a clear evidence of God's righteous judgment that you will be counted worthy of God's kingdom, for which you also are suffering, |
| 6God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you | 6since it is righteous for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you |
| 7and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels. | 7and to reward with rest you who are afflicted, along with us. This will take place at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with His powerful angels, |
| 8He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. | 8taking vengeance with flaming fire on those who don't know God and on those who don't obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. |
| 9They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might | 9These will pay the penalty of eternal destruction from the Lord's presence and from His glorious strength |
| 10on the day he comes to be glorified 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. | 10in that day when He comes to be glorified by His saints and to be admired by all those who have believed, because our testimony among you was believed. |
| 11With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may bring to fruition your every desire for goodness and your every deed prompted by faith. | 11And in view of this, we always pray for you that our God will consider you worthy of His calling, and will, by His power, fulfill every desire for goodness and the work of faith, |
| 12We pray this so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. | 12so that the name of our Lord Jesus will be glorified by you, and you by Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. |
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