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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 NLT</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="../">NLT</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 Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/2_thessalonians/1.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Greetings from Paul</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_thessalonians/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>This letter is from Paul, Silas,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> and Timothy.</p><p class="reg">We are writing to the church in Thessalonica, to you who belong to God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_thessalonians/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>May God our Father<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace.</p><p class="hdg">Encouragement during Persecution</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_thessalonians/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Dear brothers and sisters,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> we can’t help but thank God for you, because your faith is flourishing and your love for one another is growing. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_thessalonians/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>We proudly tell God’s other churches about your endurance and faithfulness in all the persecutions and hardships you are suffering. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_thessalonians/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And God will use this persecution to show his justice and to make you worthy of his Kingdom, for which you are suffering. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_thessalonians/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>In his justice he will pay back those who persecute you.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_thessalonians/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And God will provide rest for you who are being persecuted and also for us when the Lord Jesus appears from heaven. He will come with his mighty angels, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_thessalonians/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>in flaming fire, bringing judgment on those who don’t know God and on those who refuse to obey the Good News 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 eternal destruction, forever separated from the Lord and from his glorious power. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_thessalonians/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>When he comes on that day, he will receive glory from his holy people—praise from all who believe. And this includes you, for you believed what we told you about him.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_thessalonians/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>So we keep on praying for you, asking our God to enable you to live a life worthy of his call. May he give you the power to accomplish all the good things your faith prompts you to do. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_thessalonians/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then the name of our Lord Jesus will be honored because of the way you live, and you will be honored along with him. This is all made possible because of the grace of our God and Lord, Jesus Christ.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">1:1 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">Silvanus,</span><span class="ft"> the Greek form of the name.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">1:2 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts read </span><span class="it">God the Father.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">1:3 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">Brothers.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">1:12 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">of our God and our Lord Jesus Christ.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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