I ought always to thank God for you, brothers, as is fitting because of the abundant growth of your faith and of the overflowing love with which every one of you is filled toward one another.

For truly God's justice must render back trouble to those who are troubling you,

in flaming fire. Then shall he take vengeance on those who know not God, even on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

when he comes to be glorified in his saints, and to be wondered at in all believers, on that Day; (for you also believed our testimony).

To this end I am making my constant prayer for you, beseeching God to make you worthy of your calling, and to fulfil mightily every desire of goodness and effort of faith;

Let no one deceive you by any means. For it will not come until after the Great Apostasy, and the revealing of the Man of Sin, the son of perdition,

For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only there is one who is hindering and will continue to hinder till he be removed;

and with all deceit of unrighteousness for those who are perishing, because they did not receive the love of the truth for their salvation.

For this reason God is sending on them an energy of delusion, that they should put faith in a falsehood;

But for you, brothers, whom the Lord loves, I ought to give thanks to God continually, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation in consecration of the Spirit and belief of the truth.

For this he called you through my gospel, so that you might obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Finally, brothers, pray on for me, that God's word may run swiftly, and be glorified as in your own case,

and that I may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men; for all do not hold the faith.

For you know well how you must imitate me. For I did not lead an idle or disorderly life among you;

Not that I have no right to such support; it was simply to give you an example for you to imitate.

For indeed when I was with you, I used to charge you, "If any man will not work, he shall not eat."