so that we are always boasting of you among the churches of God for your patient endurance and faith, in spite of your persecutions and crushing sorrows which you are enduring.

when on that day He comes to be glorified in His consecrated ones and to be admired by all who believe in Him because our testimony has been confidently accepted among you.

Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the message of the Lord may continue to spread and prove its glorious power as it did among you,

But we are informed that some among you are living as shirkers, mere busybodies, instead of busy at work.