1:3 We ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters, ¹  and rightly so, ²  because your faith flourishes more and more and the love of each one of you all for one another is ever greater. 1:4 As a result we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and afflictions you are enduring.

1:5 This is evidence of God’s righteous judgment, to make you worthy ³  of the kingdom of God, for which in fact you are suffering. 1:6 For it is right ⁴  for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you, 1:7 and to you who are being afflicted to give rest together with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed ⁵  from heaven with his mighty angels. ⁶  1:8 With flaming fire he will mete out ⁷  punishment on those who do not know God ⁸  and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 1:9 They ⁹  will undergo the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his strength, ¹⁰  1:10 when he comes to be glorified among his saints and admired ¹¹  on that day among all who have believed – and you did in fact believe our testimony. ¹²