ካልእት፡ መልእክተ፡ ጳውሎስ፡ ኀበ፡ ሰብአ፡ ተሰሎንቄ፡

Second Epistle of Paul to the People of Thessalonica — Anonymous Chapter 1 Concerning the Consolation in Brotherly Love From Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy to the Church of the Thessalonians, the faithful in God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. Peace to you and grace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. We give thanks to God at all times for you, our brothers, as is fitting. For great is your faith and abundant your love with all your patience. As we also take pride in you in the Church of God, on account of your faith and your endurance in your suffering and your affliction, which you endure and bear. So that you may show the judgment of the righteousness of God, that He may grant you His kingdom for which you have suffered. Concerning the coming of our Lord. And it is right that they be comforted by God, those who cause you suffering.

And for you who have found rest with us in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ from the heavens with the angels of his power, so that he may avenge them with the fire of those who did not know the Lord God and those who did not heed the teaching and gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. And they shall receive their punishment, judgment of sorrow and eternal separation from before the face of our Lord and from the glory of his power, because of the lack of worth. When he comes, he will be praised among his saints and glorified among those who believe in him, for the hearing of faith will be confirmed over you on that day. And because of this, I pray continually on your behalf, that he may grant you the inheritance to which the Lord God has called you, and that he may accomplish for you all his mercy and goodness and the works of faith through his power, so that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be praised over you. And you also, abide in him, according to the grace of our God and Lord Jesus Christ.

Chapter 2 Concerning the coming of our Lord We tell you, our brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. And you, within his assembly, stand firm and do not let them shake you quickly. And do not be confused in mind, neither in spirit, nor in word, nor in scripture, as if from us, if the day of our Lord comes concerning the hidden Messiah. There is none who can lead you astray, nor in anything, for that day will come if the one who has come, whom you know, arrives first. And the man of iniquity, the son of perdition, will be revealed. The arrogant and hidden one who raises his head and says to all, "I am the Lord God," and dwells in the house of the Lord God, and raises his head like the Lord God. Do you not remember that when I was with you, I preceded and told you this? And now, know what he is able to manifest until his age is fulfilled. For such a counsel of sin and evil is done against him. And his mother now holds him until he is released from the midst concerning the work of the hidden Messiah.

And that one, the son of iniquity, the sinner, who has it, will destroy the spirit of our Lord Jesus, and will lead astray through the revelation of his coming. And the coming of this one is by the power of Satan, with all force, sign, and false wonder. And with every seduction of sin for the pagans, for they have abandoned the love of the word of righteousness in which they lived. And because of this, the Lord God will punish them with the power of falsehood, so that they believe in falsehood. So that all those who believe in righteousness and join in iniquity will be condemned. The praise of the Lord God for the faithful. And we, our steadfast brothers, praise the Lord God always for you, whom the Lord God has loved, for the Lord God has chosen you and had mercy on you, the head of life, through the Holy Spirit and the faith of righteousness. For this reason, he called you through the teaching of his Gospel, so that you may live in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And now, our brothers, stand firm and keep the commandment of him who taught you and commanded you, both by our word and by our book. And that one, our Lord Jesus Christ and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal joy and good hope. His grace it is that will gladden your heart and strengthen you in every good deed and in every good word. Chapter 3 Prayer concerning the spreading of teaching And now, our brothers, pray for us that the word of God may spread and be praised among you. And that we may be saved from evil and hostile men, for not everyone who believes. But God, faithful and just, will strengthen you and protect you from all evil. We trust you with God that you will do what we have commanded you and what you have done. And our Lord will direct your heart into the love of God and into the hope of Christ, which is fitting, having been consumed in humility. Our brothers, we exhort you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ: rebuke all those who walk in error and not in the order which we have established for them.

Be amazed at yourselves, that you imitate us rightly, as our labor is upon you. And we have not eaten the bread of another in vain, without your knowledge. We are watchful by day and night, and we act so that we may honor you. And indeed, what was abundant, your knowledge is an example that we may be to you as you imitate us, a commandment concerning the reed. And when I was with you, I commanded you this: that he who wishes to be shorn should not be shorn. We have heard that there are among you those who walk in confusion, and there is no one who is shorn, nor again wanderers. And to those who are like this, we command and rebuke them in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that their deeds be done in sweat and thirst, and their shorn ones be shorn. And you also, our brothers, be zealous in doing good at all times, a custom concerning him who will not be commanded. And if there is one who will not be commanded by your word and your book, let him be separated, and do not associate with him, so that he may be ashamed.

And as for the enemy, I have not ceased to rebuke him, that he may be your brother. And may the God of peace give you peace at all times and in every deed. And may our Lord be with all of you. This much I have written to you with my own hand, I, Paul. And this is my sign in all my letters, that I write thus. May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with all of you. Amen.