We ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because increase greatly doth your faith, and abound doth the love of each one of you all, to one another;

when He may come to be glorified in his saints, and to be wondered at in all those believing -- because our testimony was believed among you -- in that day;

let not any one deceive you in any manner, because -- if the falling away may not come first, and the man of sin be revealed -- the son of the destruction,

and in all deceitfulness of the unrighteousness in those perishing, because the love of the truth they did not receive for their being saved,

and because of this shall God send to them a working of delusion, for their believing the lie,

for yourselves have known how it behoveth you to imitate us, because we did not act disorderly among you;

not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;