For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath(A) but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.(B)

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For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

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23 May God himself, the God of peace,(A) sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul(B) and body be kept blameless(C) at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.(D)

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23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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28 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.(A)

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28 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.

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Paul, Silas[a](A) and Timothy,(B)

To the church of the Thessalonians(C) in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Thessalonians 1:1 Greek Silvanus, a variant of Silas

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 and peace to you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.(A)

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

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and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven(A) in blazing fire(B) with his powerful angels.(C)

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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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He will punish(A) those who do not know God(B) and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.(C)

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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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12 We pray this so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you,(A) and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Thessalonians 1:12 Or God and Lord, Jesus Christ

12 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.

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The Man of Lawlessness

Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ(A) and our being gathered to him,(B) we ask you, brothers and sisters,

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Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,

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And then the lawless one will be revealed,(A) whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth(B) and destroy by the splendor of his coming.(C)

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And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

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14 He called you(A) to this through our gospel,(B) that you might share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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14 Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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16 May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father,(A) who loved us(B) and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope,

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16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,

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Warning Against Idleness

In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,(A) we command you, brothers and sisters, to keep away from(B) every believer who is idle and disruptive(C) and does not live according to the teaching[a] you received from us.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Thessalonians 3:6 Or tradition

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.

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