We are oblig'd, my brethren, to render thanks to God continually upon your account, as it is but just; since your faith still improves, and your mutual love is always increasing.

They are proof positive of God's equity; you are suffering for the realm of God, and he means to make you worthy of it ??6 since God considers it but just to repay with trouble those who trouble you,

But we request you, brethren, - in behalf of the Presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together unto him,

[But] for now, there is something holding him back [i.e., holding back the man of lawlessness from emerging, See verses 3-4], and you people know what it is. [It is restraining him] so that he will not be revealed until his own [due] time.

For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work, but only until he who is holding it back has been gotten out of the way.

Then will 'Wickedness Incarnate' appear, but the Lord Jesus will destroy him with the breath of his lips, and annihilate him by the splendor of his Coming.

and by unlimited seduction to evil and with all the deception of wickedness for those who are perishing, because they did not welcome the love of the truth [of the gospel] so as to be saved [they were spiritually blind, and rejected the truth that would have saved them].

so that all who have refused to believe the truth but have chosen unrighteousness instead might be condemned.

But we are indebted to express thanks to God always about you, brothers, beloved by Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation, in sanctification of spirit and belief of truth,

But may, our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, - Who hath loved you, and given you age-abiding consolation and good hope by favour,

But the Lord is to be trusted, and He will give you strength and guard you from the evil one.

But we trust in the Lord as to you, that the things which we enjoin, ye both do and will do.

But may, the Lord, guide your hearts into the love of God, and into the endurance of the Christ.

But we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, [that] you keep away from every brother who lives irresponsibly and not according to the tradition that they received from us.

I did not eat any man's bread without paying for it, but with toil and hard labor I worked night and day, in order not to be a burden to any of you.

Not that I have no right to be supported, but to make myself an example for you to follow.

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

but we command such and exhort them in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietude working, they must eat their own bread.

But you, brothers, must never grow tired of doing right.

Now if anyone [in the church] does not obey what we say in this letter, take special note of that person and do not associate with him, so that he will be ashamed and repent.

You must not regard him as an enemy but warn him as a brother.

But may, the Lord of peace himself, give you peace, always, in every way. The Lord, be with you all.