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2 Thessalonians 1:3-12 CEV
(3) My dear friends, we always have good reason to thank God for you, because your faith in God and your love for each other keep growing all the time.
(4) That's why we brag about you to all of God's churches. We tell them how patient you are and how you keep on having faith, even though you are going through a lot of trouble and suffering.
(5) All of this shows that God judges fairly and that he is making you fit to share in his kingdom for which you are suffering.
(6) It is only right for God to punish everyone who is causing you trouble,
(7) but he will give you relief from your troubles. He will do the same for us, when the Lord Jesus comes from heaven with his powerful angels
(8) and with a flaming fire. Our Lord Jesus will punish anyone who doesn't know God and won't obey his message.
(9) Their punishment will be eternal destruction, and they will be kept far from the presence of our Lord and his glorious strength.
(10) This will happen on that day when the Lord returns to be praised and honored by all who have faith in him and belong to him. This includes you, because you believed what we said.
(11) God chose you, and we keep praying that God will make you worthy of being his people. We pray for God's power to help you do all the good things that you hope to do and that your faith makes you want to do.
(12) Then, because God and our Lord Jesus Christ are so kind, you will bring honor to the name of our Lord Jesus, and he will bring honor to you.
2 Thessalonians 1:3-12 MKJV
(3) We are bound to thank God always for you, my brothers, as it is right, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each one of you abounds toward one another;
(4) so much so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God, for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations which you endure.
(5) For this is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God for which you also suffer,
(6) since it is a righteous thing with God to repay tribulation to those who trouble you,
(7) and to give rest with us to you who are troubled, at the revealing of the Lord Jesus from Heaven with the angels of His power,
(8) in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God and who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ,
(9) who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power,
(10) when He shall come to be glorified in His saints and to be admired in all those who believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that Day.
(11) Therefore we also pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of the calling and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and the work of faith with power,
(12) that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Thessalonians 1:3-12 NWT
3 We are obligated to give God thanks always for you, brothers, as it is fitting, because your faith is growing exceedingly and the love of each and all of you is increasing one toward the other. 4 As a result we ourselves take pride in you among the congregations of God because of your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and the tribulations that you are bearing. 5 This is a proof of the righteous judgment of God, leading to your being counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are indeed suffering. 6 This takes into account that it is righteous on God's part to repay tribulation to those who make tribulation for you, 7 but, to you who suffer tribulation, relief along with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his powerful angels 8 in a flaming fire, as he brings vengeance upon those who do not know God and those who do not obey the good news about our Lord Jesus. 9 These very ones will undergo the judicial punishment of everlasting destruction from before the Lord and from the glory of his strength, 10 at the time he comes to be glorified in connection with his holy ones and to be regarded in that day with wonder in connection with all those who exercised faith, because the witness we gave met with faith among you. 11 To that very end indeed we always pray for you, that our God may count you worthy of [his] calling and perform completely all he pleases of goodness and the work of faith with power; 12 in order that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in union with him, in accord with the undeserved kindness of our God and of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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ALT - Analytical Literal Translation
ASV - American Standard Version (by the American revision committee in 1897).
BBE - 1965 Bible in Basic English
Bishops - 1568 Bishop's Bible
CEV - Contemporary English Version
Coverdale - 1535 Miles Coverdale Bible
Darby - 1889 Darby Bible
DRB - 1899 Douay-Rheims Bible
ESV - English Standard Version
GNB - Good News Bible
GW - God's Word Bible
ISV - International Standard Version
KJV - King James Version
LitNT - Literal New Testament
LITV - Literal Translation of the Holy Bible
MKJV - Modern King James Version
Murdock - 1851 James Murdock New Testament
NWT - New World Translation
RV - Revised Version
Webster - 1833 Webster Bible
WTNT - 1525-26 William Tyndale New Testament
Wycliffe - 1394 Wycliffe Bible
YLT - Young's Literal Translation