so that we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God, for your patience and faith under all your persecutions and afflictions which ye endure.

Which are a demonstration of the just judgement of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:

and wonders, and with all iniquitous fraud, among those that shall perish; because they received not the love of the truth, by which they might be saved.

to which He hath called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore, brethren, be steady, and hold fast the traditions, which ye have been taught, whether by word or by our letter.

And we trust in the Lord concerning you, that ye both do and will do the things which we give you in charge.

Now we charge you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother who walketh disorderly, and not according to the instruction which he received from us.

The salutation of me Paul by my own hand, which is the token in every epistle; for so I write,