Greetings to the Thessalonians (1 Thessalonians 1:1–10)
1 UDB I, Paul, and Silas and Timothy are writing this letter to you in the city of Thessalonica who are a group of believers joined to God our Father and to Jesus Christ our Lord. BSB BSB: Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
2 UDB We pray that God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord will continue to act kindly toward you and that he will continue to give you peace. BSB BSB: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 UDB Our fellow believers, we are always thanking God, and we should do this, because you are trusting in the Lord Jesus more and more and because every one of you is loving each of the others more and more. BSB BSB: We are obligated to thank God for you all the time, brothers, as is fitting, because your faith is growing more and more, and your love for one another is increasing.
4 UDB As a result, we keep proudly talking about you to the other groups of believers belonging to God. We tell them how you are being patient and how you continue trusting in the Lord Jesus, even though other people frequently cause you much trouble. BSB BSB: That is why we boast among God’s churches about your perseverance and faith in the face of all the persecution and affliction you are enduring.
Christ’s Coming 5 UDB Since you are enduring all that trouble, we clearly know that God will judge all people justly. In your case, he will declare to everyone that you are worthy for him to rule forever because you are suffering as you trust in him. BSB BSB: All this is clear evidence of God’s righteous judgment. And so you will be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering.
6 UDB God will certainly cause trouble for those people who are troubling you because it is right for him to do so. BSB BSB: After all, it is only right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,
7 UDB He also considers that it is right that he should reward you by bringing you through your hardships. He will do that for both you and us when our Lord Jesus shows himself to everyone and he returns from heaven with his powerful angels. BSB BSB: and to grant relief to you who are oppressed and to us as well. This will take place when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels
8 UDB Then with blazing fire he will punish those people who are not loyal to him, those who refuse to accept the good news about our Lord Jesus. BSB BSB: in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
10 UDB The Lord Jesus will do this when he comes back from heaven at the time that God has decided. As a result, all we who are his people will praise him and marvel at him. And you will also be there, too, because you believed what we solemnly told you. BSB BSB: on the day He comes to be glorified in His saints and regarded with wonder by all who have believed, including you who have believed our testimony.
11 UDB So that you might praise Jesus like this, we are also always praying for you. We pray that God will make you worthy to live in the new way he has called you to live. We pray also that he will make you able to do good in every way that you desire and that, since he is so powerful, he will also make you able to do every kind of good thing because you trust in him. BSB BSB: To this end, we always pray for you, that our God will count you worthy of His calling, and that He will powerfully fulfill your every good desire and work of faith,
12 UDB We pray this because we want you to praise our Lord Jesus and so that he might honor you. This we pray with the hope that God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ will keep acting kindly toward you. BSB BSB: so that the name of our Lord Jesus will be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Select verses for actions: Enter goes to them and Escape comes back.