(A proof of the just judgment of God,) for you to be deemed worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:

When he should come to be honoured in his holy ones, and to be admired in all the believing, (that our testimony among you was believed) in that day.

So that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ be honoured in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

For you not to be quickly shaken in mind, neither be disturbed, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by epistle as by us, as that the day of Christ has drawn near.

Let none deceive you in any manner: for, except an apostasy come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

And now ye know the withholding for him to be revealed in his time.

For the mystery of iniquity is already energetic: only he withholding, even till he be out of the midst.

And then shall the Lawless one be revealed, whom the Lord will destroy with the spirit of his mouth, and leave unemployed in the splendor of his arrival:

And in all deceit of iniquity in the lost; because they received not the love of the truth, for them to be saved.

That all might be judged not believing the truth but contented in iniquity.

And we ought to return thanks to God always for you, brethren dearly beloved by the Lord, that God chose you from the beginning to salvation in consecration of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

To which he called you by our good news, to the acquisition of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore, brethren, stand, and hold firmly the doctrines which ye were taught, whether by the word, or by our epistle.

As to the rest, pray, brethren, for us, that the word of the Lord may run, and be honoured, as also with you:

And that we may be delivered from unfit and evil men: for not faith of all.

And to such we proclaim and beseech by our Lord Jesus Christ, that, with freedom from care working, they should eat their own bread.

And if any listen not to our word by the epistle, mark him, and mix not together with him, that he may change.