Today’s
Reading: 2Thessalonians 1 - 3 (KJV)
2 Thessalonians 1
2Th 1:1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the
church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
2Th 1:2 Grace unto you, and peace, from God our
Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
2Th 1:3 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;
2Th 1:4 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:
2Th 1:5 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:
2Th 1:6 Seeing it
is a righteous thing with God to
recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
2Th 1:7 And to you who are troubled rest with us,
when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
2Th 1:8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that
know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
2Th 1:9 Who shall be punished with everlasting
destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
2Th 1:10 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.
2Th 1:11 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:
2Th 1:12 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.
2 Thessalonians 2
2Th 2:1 Now we beseech you,
brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
2Th 2:2 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.
2Th 2:3 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;
2Th 2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is
worshiped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of
God, showing himself that he is God.
2Th 2:5 Remember ye not, that, when I was
yet with you, I told you these things?
2Th 2:6 And now ye know what withholdeth
that he might be revealed in his time.
2Th 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already
work: only he who now letteth will let,
until he be taken out of the way.
2Th 2:8 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:
2Th 2:9 Even him,
whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying
wonders,
2Th 2:10 And with all deceivableness of
unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the
truth, that they might be saved.
2Th 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong
delusion, that they should believe a lie:
2Th 2:12 That they all might be damned who believed
not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
2Th 2:13 But we are bound to give thanks always 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:
2Th 2:14 Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the
obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2Th 2:15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the
traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
2Th 2:16 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,
2Th 2:17 Comfort your hearts, and establish you in
every good word and work.
2 Thessalonians 3
2Th 3:1 Finally, brethren,
pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free
course, and be glorified, even as it is with you:
2Th 3:2 And that we may be delivered from
unreasonable and wicked men: for all men
have not faith.
2Th 3:3 But the Lord is faithful, who shall establish
you, and keep you from evil.
2Th 3:4 And we have confidence in the Lord touching
you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you.
2Th 3:5 And the Lord direct your hearts into the love
of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
2Th 3:6 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.
2Th 3:7 For yourselves know how ye ought to follow
us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;
2Th 3:8 Neither did we eat any man’s bread for
naught; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be
chargeable to any of you:
2Th 3:9 Not because we have not power, but to make
ourselves an example unto you to follow us.
2Th 3:10 For even when we were with you, this we
commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
2Th 3:11 For we hear that there are some which walk
among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
2Th 3:12 Now them that are such we command and exhort
by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own
bread.
2Th 3:13 But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.
2Th 3:14 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.
2Th 3:15 Yet count him
not as an enemy, but admonish him as a
brother.
2Th 3:16 Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace
always by all means. The Lord be with
you all.
2Th 3:17 The salutation of Paul with mine own hand,
which is the token in every epistle: so I write.
2Th 3:18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
