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# 2 Thessalonians 1

2 Thessalonians 1 is chapter 1 of 3 in the Second Letter to the Thessalonians. Here are all 12 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> He gives thanks to God for their faith and constancy and prays for their advancement in all good.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## 2 Thessalonians 1 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Paul and Sylvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians, in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
2. Grace and peace to you, from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
3. We ought to give thanks always to God for you, brothers, in a fitting manner, because your faith is increasing greatly, and because the charity of each of you toward one another is abundant,
4. so much so that we ourselves even glory in you among the churches of God, because of your patience and faith in all of your persecutions and tribulations that you endure,
5. which are a sign of the just judgment of God, so that you may be held worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer.
6. For certainly, it is just for God to repay trouble to those who trouble you,
7. and to repay you, who are being troubled, with a repose with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with the Angels of his virtue,
8. granting vindication, by a flame of fire, against those who do not know God and who are not obedient to the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9. These shall be given the eternal punishment of destruction, apart from the face of the Lord and apart from the glory of his virtue,
10. when he arrives to be glorified in his saints, and to become a wonder in all those who have believed, in that day, because our testimony has been believed by you.
11. Because of this, too, we pray always for you, so that our God may make you worthy of his calling and may complete every act of his goodness, as well as his work of faith in virtue,
12. in order that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, in accord with the grace of our God and of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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

1. Paulus, et Sylvanus, et Timotheus, ecclesiæ Thessalonicensium in Deo Patre nostro, et Domino Jesu Christo.
2. Gratia vobis, et pax a Deo Patre nostro, et Domino Jesu Christo.
3. Gratias agere debemus semper Deo pro vobis, fratres, ita ut dignum est, quoniam supercrescit fides vestra, et abundat caritas uniuscujusque vestrum in invicem:
4. ita ut et nos ipsi in vobis gloriemur in ecclesiis Dei, pro patientia vestra, et fide, et in omnibus persecutionibus vestris, et tribulationibus, quas sustinetis
5. in exemplum justi judicii Dei, ut digni habeamini in regno Dei, pro quo et patimini.
6. Si tamen justum est apud Deum retribuere tribulationem iis qui vos tribulant:
7. et vobis, qui tribulamini, requiem nobiscum in revelatione Domini Jesu de cælo cum angelis virtutis ejus,
8. in flamma ignis dantis vindictam iis qui non noverunt Deum, et qui non obediunt Evangelio Domini nostri Jesu Christi,
9. qui pœnas dabunt in interitu æternas a facie Domini, et a gloria virtutis ejus:
10. cum venerit glorificari in sanctis suis, et admirabilis fieri in omnibus, qui crediderunt, quia creditum est testimonium nostrum super vos in die illo.
11. In quo etiam oramus semper pro vobis: ut dignetur vos vocatione sua Deus noster, et impleat omnem voluntatem bonitatis, et opus fidei in virtute,
12. ut clarificetur nomen Domini nostri Jesu Christi in vobis, et vos in illo secundum gratiam Dei nostri, et Domini Jesu Christi.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 1041: The Last Judgment ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2636: Prayer of Intercession ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Read at Mass (US)

- Mon, Aug 28, 2028 (computed): St. Augustine, Bishop and Doctor of the Church — First Reading, 2 Thessalonians 1:1-5, 11-12
- Sun, Nov 5, 2028 (computed): Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time — Second Reading, 2 Thessalonians 1:11—2:2

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).