If you want to accept God's
offer in his Son, say a prayer like this:
Jesus, I confess that you are not only the
most important person in history, but you are the Creator and Savior of the
world. Lord Jesus, I need you. I have done wrong. Please forgive me of my sins
and come into my life. I ask you not just to be part of my life, but to guide me
to live according to the words I read in the Bible. Thank you for your mercy and
forgiveness. I am now committed to be your follower.
Amen.
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The Book of II Thessalonians
Chapter 1
001:001 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the
church of the
Thessalonians in God
our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
001:002 Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father
and the Lord
Jesus Christ.
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;
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:
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:
001:006 Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to
recompense
tribulation to them
that trouble you;
001:007 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when
the Lord Jesus
shall be revealed
from heaven with his mighty angels,
001:008 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that
know not God,
and that obey not
the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
001:009 Who shall be punished with everlasting
destruction from the
presence of
the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
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.
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:
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.
002:001 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of
our Lord Jesus
Christ, and by our
gathering together unto him,
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.
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;
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.
002:005 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you,
I told you
these things?
002:006 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might
be revealed in
his time.
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.
002:008 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:
002:009 Even him, whose coming is after the working of
Satan with all
power and signs and
lying wonders,
002:010 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness
in them that
perish; because they
received not the love of the truth,
that
they might be saved.
002:011 And for this cause God shall send them strong
delusion, that
they should believe
a lie:
002:012 That they all might be damned who believed not
the truth, but
had pleasure in
unrighteousness.
002:013 But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for
you, brethren
beloved of the Lord,
because God hath from the
beginning
chosen you to salvation
through sanctification of the
Spirit
and belief of the
truth:
002:014 Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the
obtaining of the
glory of our Lord
Jesus Christ.
002:015 Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the
traditions which
ye have been
taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
002:016 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,
002:017 Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every
good word and
work.
003:001 Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of
the Lord may
have free course, and
be glorified, even as it is with you:
003:002 And that we may be delivered from unreasonable
and wicked men:
for all men have
not faith.
003:003 But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish
you, and keep you
from evil.
003:004 And we have confidence in the Lord touching you,
that ye both
do and will do the
things which we command you.
003:005 And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of
God, and into
the patient waiting
for Christ.
003:006 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.
003:007 For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us:
for we behaved
not ourselves
disorderly among you;
003:008 Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought;
but wrought
with labour and
travail night and day, that we might not
be
chargeable to any of you:
003:009 Not because we have not power, but to make
ourselves an
ensample unto you to
follow us.
003:010 For even when we were with you, this we
commanded you, that if
any would
not work, neither should he eat.
003:011 For we hear that there are some which walk among
you
disorderly, working not at
all, but are busybodies.
003:012 Now them that are such we command and exhort by
our Lord Jesus
Christ, that with
quietness they work, and eat their
own
bread.
003:013 But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.
003:014 And if any man obey not our word by this
epistle, note that
man, and have
no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
003:015 Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
003:016 Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace
always by all
means. The Lord be
with you all.
003:017 The salutation of Paul with mine own hand, which
is the token
in every epistle: so I write.
003:018 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you
all. Amen.