2 Thessaloniciens 1
1 Paul, Silvain et Timothée, à l'Église des Thessaloniciens, qui est en Dieu, notre Père, et en Jésus-Christ, le Seigneur.
[I], Paul, [am writing this letter]. Silas and Timothy [are with me. We are sending this letter] to [you]. You are the congregation [of God’s people] in Thessalonica [city]. You belong to God our Father, and you belong to Jesus Christ our Lord.
2 Que la grâce et la paix vous soient données de la part de Dieu, notre Père, et du Seigneur Jésus-Christ!
[We pray that] God our Father, and Jesus Christ our Lord, [will continue to] act kindly toward you and [will continue to cause you to have inner] peace.
3 Nous devons, frères, rendre sans cesse grâces à Dieu à votre sujet; et cela est bien juste, puisque votre foi fait de grands progrès, et que l'amour que vous avez tous les uns pour les autres augmente de plus en plus.
[Our] fellow believers, we thank God very frequently [HYP] for you because we believers ought [to thank God for each other, and] specifically it is appropriate/right [that we should thank God for you. We thank him] that you are trusting in [the Lord Jesus] more and more, and that each one of you is loving [each of] the others more and more.
4 Aussi, nous nous glorifions à votre sujet auprès des Eglises de Dieu, à cause de votre patience et de votre foi dans toutes les persécutions et les afflictions que vous endurez.
As a result, we keep proudly telling about you to [other] congregations who [worship] God. [Specifically, we tell them] that you are being steadfast and that you [continue] believing [in the Lord Jesus], even though you are frequently suffering [DOU] as a result of people causing you trouble.
5 Il y a là une preuve du juste jugement de Dieu, qui veut vous rendre dignes de son royaume, pour lequel vous souffrez.
[Your being steadfast] (shows/indicates to) [us] clearly that God will judge [all people] justly. [Specifically, he] will publicly declare that you are worthy [as his people to be in] that place where he will rule [forever, because] you also are suffering as a result of [telling others about letting] God rule your lives.
6 N'est-il pas, en effet, conforme à la justice de Dieu, de rendre l'affliction à ceux qui vous affligent,
[God will certainly cause trouble for] those people who are troubling you, because he [considers] that it is just that he should punish such people for doing that to you.
7 et de vous donner, à vous qui êtes affligés, du repos avec nous,
He also [considers] that it is the right thing to do to reward you who are being troubled, by (giving you relief/causing your suffering to end). He will do that for both you and us when our Lord Jesus will descend from heaven, together with his powerful angels and with blazing fire.
8 lorsque le Seigneur Jésus apparaîtra, venant du ciel, avec les anges de sa puissance, au milieu des flammes de feu, pour faire justice de ceux qui ne connaissent point Dieu et qui n'obéissent pas à l'Évangile de notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ?
[Then he will] punish those people who do not [want to] know him and [those] who refuse to heed the message about our Lord Jesus.
9 Ils seront punis d'une perdition éternelle, loin de la face du Seigneur et de la gloire de sa puissance, (aiōnios g166)
[Our Lord Jesus] will forbid them from ever coming near to him and near to the glory which he has [because he is so] powerful (OR, the glory that is manifested by his power). He will cause those people to suffer forever. (aiōnios g166)
10 quand il viendra, en ce jour-là, pour être glorifié dans ses saints et admiré dans tous ceux qui auront cru; car vous avez cru au témoignage que nous avons rendu devant vous.
[The Lord Jesus] will do this when he comes [back from heaven] at the time [that God has decided]. As a result, all we who are his people will praise him because of [what he has done for his own] people, and all we believers will marvel at our Lord because of [what he has done. And you will be there, too], because you believed what we testified to you.
11 C'est pourquoi, nous prions sans cesse pour vous, afin que notre Dieu vous rende dignes de l'appel qu'il vous a adressé, et qu'il accomplisse en vous, avec puissance, tous les miséricordieux desseins de sa bonté et l'oeuvre de la foi;
In order that you might [praise Jesus like this], we are also praying very frequently [HYP] for you. We pray that [you will be able to show] our God that you are worthy [to receive] that which he chose [you to receive]. We pray also that he would powerfully enable you to do good in every way that you desire, and that he would also enable you to do powerfully every [good] thing [that you do because] you believe [in Jesus Christ].
12 en sorte que le nom de notre Seigneur Jésus soit glorifié en vous, et vous en lui, selon la grâce de notre Dieu et du Seigneur Jésus-Christ.
[We pray this because we want] you to praise our Lord Jesus, and we want him to honor you. This will happen because God, whom we [worship/serve], and our Lord Jesus Christ will keep acting kindly [toward you] in ways that you do not deserve.
