We ought to return thanks to God always for you, brethren, as is fitting, for your faith increases exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all enlarges to one another;

So that we ourselves boast in you in all the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your expulsions and pressures which ye endure:

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

In fire of flame giving vengeance to them not knowing God, and to them not listening to the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ:

For which also we pray always for you, that our God would deem you worthy of the calling, and fill all the benevolence of goodness, and work of faith in power:

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

And for this, God shall send them the energy of error, for them to believe in falsehood:

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:

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 we have had confidence in the Lord for you, that what we announce to you, and ye do and will do.

And we proclaim to you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, for you to shrink from every brother walking disorderly, and not according to the doctrine which he received of us.

For ye yourselves know that ye ought to imitate us: for we were not disorderly among you;

For also when we were with you, this we proclaimed to you, that if any will not work, neither should he eat.

For we hear some walking disorderly among you, working nothing, but occupied unprofitably.

And the Lord of peace himself give to you peace for all in every manner. The Lord with you all.