We ought to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because your faith is growing exceedingly, and the love of each one of you abounds toward one another;

when He shall come to be glorified in His saints, and to be marveled at in all who believed (because our testimony to you was believed), in that day.

Let no one deceive you in any manner; because that day will not come, unless the falling away come first, and the man of lawlessness be revealed??he son of perdition;

and in all deceit of unrighteousness to those who perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved by the Lord; because God, from the beginning, chose you to salvation, in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of truth;

For ye yourselves know that ye should imitate us; because we were not disorderly among you;

not because we have not authority, but that we might give ourselves as a model to you, that ye might imitate us.