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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>2 Thessalonians 1 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_thessalonians/1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_thessalonians/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > 2 Thess. 1</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_thessalonians/5.htm" title="1 Thessalonians 5">◄</a> 2 Thessalonians 1 <a href="../2_thessalonians/2.htm" title="2 Thessalonians 2">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/2_thessalonians/1.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="opening"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_thessalonians/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Paul, Silas <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek Silvanus, a variant of Silas">a</a></sup></span> and Timothy,</p><p class="opening">To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:</p> <p class="opening"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_thessalonians/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Grace and peace to you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.</p> <p class="sectionhead">Thanksgiving and Prayer</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_thessalonians/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The 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.">b</a></sup></span> and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_thessalonians/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Therefore, among God’s churches we boast about your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_thessalonians/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>All 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_thessalonians/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_thessalonians/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>and 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_thessalonians/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_thessalonians/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_thessalonians/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>on 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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_thessalonians/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>With 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_thessalonians/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>We 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. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or God and Lord, Jesus Christ">c</a></sup></span> </p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotebot">Greek <i>Silvanus</i>, a variant of <i>Silas</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> <span class="footnotebot">The Greek word for <i>brothers and sisters</i> (<i>adelphoi</i>) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God’s family; also in 2:1, 13, 15; 3:1, 6, 13.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">12</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>God and Lord, Jesus Christ</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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