CODEX
SINAITICUS: The New Testament translated from the Sinaitic Manuscript
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Copyright ©2004 Jackson H.
Snyder II
PAUL TO THE THESSALONIANS - 2
2 Thessalonians 1
1 Paul and Silvanus and
Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ.
2 Grace to you and peace
from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,
3 We are bound to give
thanks to God always concerning you, brethren, as it is fit, because your faith
grows exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all toward one another
increases,
4 so that we ourselves
glory in you among the churches of God, on account of your patience and faith
in all your persecutions and afflictions which you endure,
5 a proof 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 to those that afflict you, affliction,
7 and to you that are
afflicted, rest with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with
the angels of his power
8 in naming fire,
rendering vengeance to those that know not God and that obey not the gospel of
our Lord Jesus;
9 and these shall suffer
punishment, an eternal destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the
glory of his might;
10 when he shall have
come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all that believed (because
our testimony to you was believed) in that day.
11 To which end also we
pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of the calling, and
fulfill all the good pleasure of goodness, and the work of faith in power,
12 that the name of our
Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of
our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Thessalonians 2
1 But we beseech you,
brethren, in respect to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering
together to him,
2 that you be not so
quickly shaken from the right understanding, nor yet be troubled, neither
through spirit, nor through word, nor through letter as through us, as that the
day of the Lord is at hand.
3 Let no one deceive you
in any way, because, unless the apostasy come first, and the man of sin be
revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself against every
one that is called God, or an object of worship, so that he sits in the temple
of God, openly showing himself that he is God.
5 Remember you not that
while I was yet with you, I told you these things?
6 And now you know what
withholds, that he may be revealed in his own time.
7 For the mystery of
iniquity already works, only till he that withholds be taken out of the way;
8 and then shall be
revealed the lawless one, whom the Lord Jesus shall destroy with the breath of
his mouth, and bring to naught by the appearance of his coming;
9 even him whose coming
is according to the working of Satan, in all power and signs and wonders of
falsehood,
10 and in all
deceitfulness of unrighteousness for those that perish, because they received
not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this reason
God sends them the strength of delusion, that they may believe the lie.
12 that all may be
condemned that believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
13 But we are bound to
give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, that God from
the beginning chose you to salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief
of the truth,
14 to which he called you
through our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
15 So then, brethren,
stand fast, and hold the traditions which you were taught, whether through word
or through our letter;
16 and may our Lord Jesus
Christ himself, and our God and Father, who loved us and gave eternal
consolation and good nope in grace,
17 comfort your hearts,
and establish you in every good work and word.
2 Thessalonians 3
1 Finally pray, brethren,
for us, that the word of the Lord may run and be glorified as also among you,
2 and that we may be
delivered from unreasonable and bad men, for not all have faith.
3 But the Lord is
faithful, who will establish you, and keep you from the evil one.
4 But we have confidence in the Lord with respect to you, that you both do and will do the things which we give in charge.
5 And may the Lord direct
your hearts into the love of God and into the patience of Christ.
6 But we charge you, brethren,
in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every
brother that walks disorderly, and not according to the tradition which they
received from us.
7 For yourselves know how
you ought to imitate us, because we were not disorderly among you,
8 neither ate we bread
from any one for naught, but in labor and toil working night and day, that we
might not burden any one of you:
9 not that we have not
authority, but that we might give ourselves as a pattern to you to imitate us.
10 For when we were with
you, this we charged you, that if any one will not work, neither let him eat.
11 For we hear of some
walking among you disorderly, working not at all, but being busybodies:
12 now such we charge and
exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that working with quietness they eat their own
bread.
13 But you, brethren, be
not weary in well doing.
14 And if any one obey
not our word through the letter, mark that man, and keep no company with him,
that he may be put to shame;
15 and count him not as
an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
16 Now may the Lord of
peace himself give you peace always in every way. The Lord be with you all.
17 The salutation of Paul
with my own hand, which is the token in every letter: so I write.
18 The grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ be with you all.