1. From Paul, Silas, and Timothy.To the church in Thessalonica, the people of God our Father and of the Lord Jesus Christ.
2. I pray that God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ will be kind to you and will bless you with peace!
3. My dear friends, we always have good reason to thank God for you, because your faith in God and your love for each other keep growing all the time.
4. That's why we boast about you to all God's churches. We tell them how patient you are and how you keep on having faith, even though you are going through a lot of trouble and suffering.
5. All this shows that God judges fairly and that he is making you fit to share in his kingdom for which you are suffering.
6. It is only right for God to punish everyone who is causing you trouble,
7. but he will give you relief from your troubles. He will do the same for us, when the Lord Jesus comes from heaven with his powerful angels
8. and with a flaming fire.Our Lord Jesus will punish anyone who doesn't know God and won't obey his message.