not to let your minds get easily unsettled or excited by any spirit of prophecy or any declaration or any letter purporting to come from me, to the effect that the Day of the Lord is already here.

For the secret of this lawlessness is already at work, but only until the person now holding it back gets out of the way.

For even when we were with you, we gave you this order: If any person does not [want to] work, he should not [get to] eat.

Now to such we give orders and make request in the Lord Jesus, that, working quietly, they get their living.

And you, my brothers, do not get tired of well-doing.