Bible (American Standard)/2 Thessalonians

The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians
==Chapter 1==
 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the church of the
Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ; 
 Grace to you and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ. 
 We are bound to give thanks to God always to you,
brethren, even as it is meet, for that your faith growth
exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all toward one
another aboundeth; 
 so that we ourselves glory in you in
the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your
persecutions and in the afflictions which ye endure; 
 [which is] a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God; to
the end that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for
which ye also suffer: 
 if so be that it is righteous thing
with God to recompense affliction to them that afflict you,
 and to you that are afflicted rest with us, at the
revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with the angels of his
power in flaming fire, 
 rendering vengeance to them that
know not God, and to them that obey not the gospel of our Lord
Jesus: 
 who shall suffer punishment, [even] eternal
destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his
might, 
 when he shall come to be glorified in his saints,
and to be marvelled at in all them that believed (because our
testimony unto you was believed) in that day. 
 To which
end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you
worthy of your calling, and fulfil every desire of goodness and
[every] work of faith, with power; 
 that the name of our
Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to
the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
==Chapter 2==
 Now we beseech you, brethren, touching the coming of
our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together unto him;
 to the end that ye be not quickly shaken from your mind,
nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by epistle
as from us, as that the day of the Lord is just at hand; 
 let no man beguile you in any wise: for [it will not be,] except
the falling away come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the
son of perdition, 
 he that opposeth and exalteth himself
against all that is called God or that is worshipped; so that he
sitteth in the temple of God, setting himself forth as God.
 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you
these things? 
 And now ye know that which restraineth, to
the end that he may be revealed in his own season. 
 For the
mystery of lawlessness doth already work: only [there is] one
that restraineth now, until he be taken out of the way. 
 And then shall be revealed the lawless one, whom the Lord Jesus
shall slay with the breath of his mouth, and bring to nought by
the manifestation of his coming; 
 [even he], whose coming
is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs
and lying wonders, 
 and with all deceit of unrighteousness
for them that perish; because they received not the love of the
truth, that they might be saved. 
 And for this cause God
sendeth them a working of error, that they should believe a lie:
 that they all might be judged who believed not the truth,
but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 
 But we are bound to
give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord,
for that God chose you from the beginning unto salvation in
sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: 
 whereunto he called you through our gospel, to the obtaining of
the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. 
 So then, brethren,
stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye were taught,
whether by word, or by epistle of ours. 
 Now our Lord
Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father who loved us and gave
us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, 
 comfort
your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.
==Chapter 3==
 Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the
Lord may run and be glorified, even as also [it is] with you;
 and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and evil
men; for all have not faith. 
 But the Lord is faithful, who
shall establish you, and guard you from the evil [one]. 
 And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do
and will do the things which we command. 
 And the Lord
direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience
of Christ. 
 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 they received of us. 
 For yourselves know how ye
ought to imitate us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly
among you; 
 neither did we eat bread for nought at any
man's hand, but in labor and travail, working night and day,
that we might not burden any of you: 
 not because we have
not the right, but to make ourselves and ensample unto you, that
ye should imitate us. 
 For even when we were with you,
this we commanded you, If any will not work, neither let him
eat. 
 For we hear of some that walk among you disorderly,
that work not at all, but are busybodies. 
 Now them that
are such we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that
with quietness they work, and eat their own bread. 
 But
ye, brethren, be not weary in well-doing. 
 And if any man
obeyeth not our word by this epistle, note that man, that ye
have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.
 And [yet] count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as
a brother. 
 Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace
at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all. 
 The
salutation of me Paul with mine own hand, which is the token in
every epistle: so I write. 
 The grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ be with you all.