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.

This is a proof of God's righteous judgment, His aim being to let you show yourselves worthy of His kingdom, for which you are suffering; since,

and to give rest to you who are being crushed with sorrows, along with us, at the unveiling of our Lord Jesus Christ from heaven, with His mighty angels

With this in view we are always praying for you too, that our God may make you worthy of His call, and by His power fully satisfy your every desire for goodness, and complete every activity of your faith,

and with a completely wicked deception for men who are on the way to destruction, because they refused to love the truth so as to be saved.

We have confidence in you through the Lord that you are now practicing the directions which we give you and that you will continue to do so.

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