dealing out [full and complete] vengeance to those who do not [seek to] know God and to those who ignore and refuse to obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus [by choosing not to respond to Him].

Let nobody delude you into this belief, whatever he may say. It will not come till the Rebellion takes place first of all, with the revealing of the Lawless One, the doomed One,

the adversary of every being that is called a god or an object of worship, and so overbearing toward them as to enter God's sanctuary and take his seat there, proclaiming himself to be God??5 do you not remember that when I was with you, I used to tell you this?

Do you not remember that while I was still with you I used to tell you all this?

And now it is clear to you what is keeping back his revelation till the time comes for him to be seen.

for the secret of the lawlessness doth already work, only he who is keeping down now will hinder -- till he may be out of the way,

Therefore God visits them with an active delusion, till they put faith in falsehood,

nor have we eaten bread from any one without cost; but in toil and hardship working night and day not to be chargeable to any one of you: