So that I myself am boasting about you among the churches of God, boasting of the stedfastness and faith which you are displaying in all the troubles and afflictions which you are enduring.

They are an evidence of the righteous judgment of God, who will count you worthy of his kingdom, in behalf of which you are even now suffering.

For truly God's justice must render back trouble to those who are troubling you,

and give to you, who are now troubled, rest, along with me at the unveiling "apocalypse" of the Lord Jesus from heaven, with his mighty angels,

and with all deceit of unrighteousness for those who are perishing, because they did not receive the love of the truth for their salvation.

so that they all should be condemned, who are faithless to the truth, but take pleasure in evil.

Now we have fully fixed our faith on you in the Lord, that you are doing and will continue to do what we enjoin.

But I hear that there are those of your number who are leading idle and disorderly lives, who are not busy, but mere busybodies.