Grace be to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

and to you who are afflicted rest with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his mighty angels

who shall suffer the punishment of eternal destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power,

that you be not soon shaken in mind, nor terrified, neither by a spirit, nor by a discourse, nor by an epistle as from us, as though the day of the Lord was at hand.

And now you know what hinders him from being revealed in his time.

But we ought to thank God always for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you to salvation by purification of spirit, and belief of the truth,

Therefore, brothers, stand firm, and hold the traditions which you have been taught, whether by word or by our epistle;

and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men; for all have not faith.

But the Lord is faithful, who will confirm you, and guard you from evil.

And we charge you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the tradition which you received from us.