WE THANK GOD FOR YOU

 We ought always to thank God for you, brothers, and rightly so,

Because your Faith is growing more and more,

And the love everyone of you has for each other is increasing.

Therefore, among God's Churches

We boast about your perseverance and Faith

In all the persecutions and trials you are enduring.

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. God is just:

He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you

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.

He will punish those who do not know God

And do not obey the Gospel of our Lord Jesus.

They will be punished with Everlasting Destruction

And shut out from the Presence of the Lord

And from the Majesty of His Power

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.

(2 Thessalonians 1:1-10)