Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:
Wherefore, х Eis (G1519) ho (G3588)] - 'With a view to which;' namely, His glorification in you as His saints.
Also. We not only anticipate generally the coming glorification, but we also pray concerning х peri (G4012)] YOU.
Our God - whom we serve.
Count you worthy. The prominent position of "YOU" in the Greek makes it emphatic: May you be found among the saints whom God shall count worthy.
Of (this) calling - `of the х tees (G3588)] calling' (Ephesians 4:1) wherewith He hath called you. There is no dignity in us independent of God's calling (2 Timothy 1:9). Here not merely the first actual call, but the whole of God's electing art, originating in His "purpose of grace given us in Christ before the world began," and having its consummation in glory.
All the, х pasan (G3956) eudokian (G2107)] - rather, 'every.'
Good pleasure of ... - on the part of God (Bengel).
Faith - on your part.
Of (his) goodness. The Greek [agathosunee] for goodness is never applied to God elsewhere in the New Testament; and there is no "His" in the Greek. But as in the parallel clause, "calling" refers to God's purpose, and as х eudokia (G2107)] "good pleasure" mostly is used of God [which is against Ellicott's reference of eudokia to the Thessalonians' good pleasure, Ephesians 1:5; Ephesians 1:9] - translate, 'fulfil (His) every gracious purpose of goodness' (on your part) - i:e., fully perfect in you all goodness, according to His gracious purpose. Thus, "the grace of our God," 2 Thessalonians 1:12, corresponds to God's "good pleasure" here.
The work of faith - Greek (no article): faith manifested by work, which is its perfected development (James 1:4; note, 1 Thessalonians 1:3). Strict parallelism would require "work" to be God's, as "good pleasure" is. But this may be dispensed with, as 'faith's work' is tacitly understood as really God's in and by man (Philippians 2:13), and so is parallel to God's "good pleasure."
With power - Greek, 'IN power;' i:e., 'powerfully' (Colossians 1:11; Colossians 1:29).