This eBook was produced by David Widger with the help of Derek Andrew's text from January 1992 and the work of Bryan Taylor in November 2002. Book 53 2 Thessalonians 53:001:001 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: 53:001:002 Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 53:001:003 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; 53:001:004 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: 53:001:005 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: 53:001:006 Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; 53:001:007 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, 53:001:008 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: 53:001:009 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; 53:001:010 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. 53:001:011 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: 53:001:012 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. 53:002:001 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 53:002:002 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. 53:002:003 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; 53:002:004 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. 53:002:005 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? 53:002:006 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.