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# 1 Thessalonians 2

1 Thessalonians 2 is chapter 2 of 5 in the First Letter to the Thessalonians. Here are all 20 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> The sincerity of the apostle's preaching the gospel to them and of their receiving it.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## 1 Thessalonians 2 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. For you yourselves know, brothers, that our acceptance among you was not empty.
2. Instead, having previously suffered and been treated shamefully, as you know, at Philippi, we had confidence in our God, so as to speak the Gospel of God to you with much solicitude.
3. For our exhortation was not in error, nor from impurity, nor with deception.
4. But, just as we have been tested by God, so that the Gospel would be entrusted to us, so also did we speak, not so as to please men, but rather to please God, who tests our hearts.
5. And neither did we, at any time, become flattering in speech, as you know, nor did we seek an opportunity for avarice, as God is witness.
6. Nor did we seek the glory of men, neither from you, nor from others.
7. And although we could have been a burden to you, as Apostles of Christ, instead we became like little ones in your midst, like a nurse cherishing her children.
8. So desirous were we for you that we were willing to hand over to you, not only the Gospel of God, but even our own souls. For you have become most beloved to us.
9. For you remember, brothers, our hardship and weariness. We preached the Gospel of God among you, working night and day, so that we would not be burdensome to any of you.
10. You are witnesses, as is God, of how holy and just and blameless we were with you who have believed.
11. And you know the manner, with each one of you, like a father with his sons,
12. in which we were pleading with you and consoling you, bearing witness, so that you would walk in a manner worthy of God, who has called you into his kingdom and glory.
13. For this reason also, we give thanks to God without ceasing: because, when you had accepted from us the Word of the hearing of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but (as it truly is) as the Word of God, who is working in you who have believed.
14. For you, brothers, have become imitators of the churches of God which are at Judea, in Christ Jesus. For you, too, have suffered the same things from your fellow countrymen as they have suffered from the Jews,
15. who also killed both the Lord Jesus, and the Prophets, and who have persecuted us. But they do not please God, and so they are adversaries to all men.
16. They prohibit us to speak to the Gentiles, so that they may be saved, and thus do they continually add to their own sins. But the wrath of God will overtake them in the very end.
17. And we, brothers, having been deprived of you for a short time, in sight, but not in heart, have hurried all the more to see your face, with a great desire.
18. For we wanted to come to you, (indeed, I, Paul, attempted to do so once, and then again,) but Satan impeded us.
19. For what is our hope, and our joy, and our crown of glory? Is it not you, before our Lord Jesus Christ at his return?
20. For you are our glory and our joy.

## 1 Thessalonians 2 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Nam ipsi scitis, fratres, introitum nostrum ad vos, quia non inanis fuit:
2. sed ante passi, et contumeliis affecti (sicut scitis) in Philippis, fiduciam habuimus in Deo nostro, loqui ad vos Evangelium Dei in multa sollicitudine.
3. Exhortatio enim nostra non de errore, neque de immunditia, neque in dolo,
4. sed sicut probati sumus a Deo ut crederetur nobis Evangelium: ita loquimur non quasi hominibus placentes, sed Deo, qui probat corda nostra.
5. Neque enim aliquando fuimus in sermone adulationis, sicut scitis: neque in occasione avaritiæ: Deus testis est:
6. nec quærentes ab hominibus gloriam, neque a vobis, neque ab aliis.
7. Cum possemus vobis oneri esse ut Christi apostoli: sed facti sumus parvuli in medio vestrum, tamquam si nutrix foveat filios suos.
8. Ita desiderantes vos, cupide volebamus tradere vobis non solum Evangelium Dei, sed etiam animas nostras: quoniam carissimi nobis facti estis.
9. Memores enim estis, fratres, laboris nostri, et fatigationis: nocte ac die operantes, ne quem vestrum gravaremus, prædicavimus in vobis Evangelium Dei.
10. Vos testes estis, et Deus, quam sancte, et juste, et sine querela, vobis, qui credidistis, fuimus:
11. sicut scitis, qualiter unumquemque vestrum (sicut pater filios suos)
12. deprecantes vos, et consolantes, testificati sumus, ut ambularetis digne Deo, qui vocavit vos in suum regnum et gloriam.
13. Ideo et nos gratias agimus Deo sine intermissione: quoniam cum accepissetis a nobis verbum auditus Dei, accepistis illud, non ut verbum hominum, sed (sicut est vere) verbum Dei, qui operatur in vobis, qui credidistis:
14. vos enim imitatores facti estis, fratres, ecclesiarum Dei, quæ sunt in Judæa in Christo Jesu: quia eadem passi estis et vos a contribulibus vestris, sicut et ipsi a Judæis:
15. qui et Dominum occiderunt Jesum, et prophetas, et nos persecuti sunt, et Deo non placent, et omnibus hominibus adversantur,
16. prohibentes nos gentibus loqui ut salvæ fiant, ut impleant peccata sua semper: pervenit enim ira Dei super illos usque in finem.
17. Nos autem fratres desolati a vobis ad tempus horæ, aspectu, non corde, abundantius festinavimus faciem vestram videre cum multo desiderio:
18. quoniam voluimus venire ad vos, ego quidem Paulus, et semel, et iterum: sed impedivit nos Satanas.
19. Quæ est enim nostra spes aut gaudium, aut corona gloriæ? nonne vos ante Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum estis in adventu ejus?
20. vos enim estis gloria nostra et gaudium.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- cf. CCC ¶ 1349: The Liturgical Celebration of the Eucharist ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 16: That is, to fill up the measure of their sins, after which God's justice would punish them. For the wrath of God is come upon them to the end-- That is, to continue on them to the end.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Tue, Jan 12, 2027: Tuesday of the First Week in Ordinary Time — Alleluia, 1 Thessalonians 2:13
- Thu, May 20, 2027: Thursday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time — Alleluia, 1 Thessalonians 2:13
- Fri, Aug 13, 2027 (computed): Friday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time — Alleluia, See 1 Thessalonians 2:13
- Wed, Aug 25, 2027 (computed): Wednesday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, 1 Thessalonians 2:9-13

3 more dates through December 31, 2028, in the [liturgical calendar](https://blessbible.app/calendar/).

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).