so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you (and you glorified in him), by the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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.

Let nobody delude you into this belief, whatever he may say. It will not come till the Rebellion takes place first of all, with the revealing of the Lawless One, the doomed One,

so that all may be doomed who refuse faith in the Truth but delight in evil.

And may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father who has loved us and given us eternal encouragement and good hope,

Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed on and triumph, as in your own case,

and that we may be delivered from perverse and evil men ??for the faith is not held by all.

May the Lord direct your hearts towards God's love and towards Christ's patience!

May the Lord of peace himself grant you peace continually, whatever comes. The Lord be with you all.

The salutation is in my own hand, Paul's; that is a mark in every letter of mine. This is how I write.