This eBook was produced by David Widger
with the help of Derek Andrew's text from January 1992and the work of Bryan Taylor in November 2002.
53:001:001 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the
Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
53:001:002 Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord
Jesus Christ.
53:001:003 We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is
meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the
charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
53:001:004 So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for
your patience and faith in all your persecutions and
tribulations that ye endure:
53:001:005 Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God,
that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which
ye also suffer:
53:001:006 Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense
tribulation to them that trouble you;
53:001:007 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus
shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
53:001:008 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God,
and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
53:001:009 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the
presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
53:001:010 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be
admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among
you was believed) in that day.
53:001:011 Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would
count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good
pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:
53:001:012 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.
53:002:001 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
53:002:002 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by
spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day
of Christ is at hand.
53:002:003 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not
come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of
sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
53:002:004 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called
God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the
temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
53:002:005 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you
these things?
53:002:006 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in
his time.
53:002:007 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now
letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
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