so that we ourselves make our boast in you in the assemblies of God for your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations, which ye are sustaining;

This is evidence of God's righteous judgment and is intended to make you worthy of God's kingdom, for which you are suffering.

For this reason, you are ever in our prayers, that you may seem to our God such as may have a part in his purpose and that by his power he will make all his good purpose, and the work of faith, complete;

You must not let anyone deceive you at all. For that is not until the rebellion takes place and the embodiment of disobedience makes his appearance??e who is doomed to destruction,

Then the embodiment of disobedience will make his appearance, and the Lord Jesus will destroy him with the breath of his mouth and annihilate him by his appearance and arrival.

who by the instigation of satan will make his parade with various arts, with fallacious signs and prodigies,

This is why God sends upon them a misleading influence, to make them believe what is false,

comfort and encourage and strengthen your hearts [keeping them steadfast and on course] in every good work and word.

To conclude, pray for us, my brethren, that the doctrine of the Lord may make its progress, and be respected every where as it is among you:

But the Lord is faithful, and He will make you stedfast and will guard you from the Evil one.

not because we do not have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.

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

If any man does not give heed to what I have said in this letter, mark that man; do not associate with him, so as to make him feel ashamed;