Passage
Grace unto you: and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Thessalonians 1:2 (DRB)
Nearby Context
2 Thessalonians 1:1 Paul and Sylvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians. In God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,
2 Thessalonians 1:2 Grace unto you: and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Thessalonians 1:3 We are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren, as it is fitting, because your faith groweth exceedingly and the charity of every one of you towards each other aboundeth.
2 Thessalonians 1:4 So that we ourselves also glory in you in the churches of God, for your patience and faith, and in all your persecutions and tribulations: which you endure
Study Lenses
The verse centers on "grace", "peace", "father", "lord", "jesus", and "christ". It is saying that salvation is received as God's gift through faith, so boasting is pushed out by the wording itself.
The nearby context moves from verse 1's "Paul and Sylvanus and Timothy to the..." into verse 3's "We are bound to give thanks always...", so "grace" and "peace" belong inside that flow. In 2 Thessalonians context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.
A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "grace" and "peace" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.