They will pay the penalty of never ending destruction, being banished from the presence of the Lord and from His mighty splendor.

to the ruin of those who are on the path to destruction, because they have never received and loved the Truth to their own Salvation.

Now, may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us never ending encouragement and good hope through [His] unearned favor,

For you yourselves know what you must do to imitate us. We never lived in idleness among you.

As for yourselves, brothers, never grow tired of doing what is right.