May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

We are bound to thank God always for you, my brothers, as it is right, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each one of you abounds toward one another;

Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:

and give to you, who are now troubled, rest, along with me at the unveiling "apocalypse" of the Lord Jesus from heaven, with his mighty angels,

when He may come to be glorified in his saints, and to be wondered at in all those believing -- because our testimony was believed among you -- in that day;

To which end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfil every desire of goodness and every work of faith, with power;

That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now as to the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, and our meeting with him, it is our desire, my brothers,

That you may not be moved in mind or troubled by a spirit, or by a word, or by a letter as from us, with the suggestion that the day of the Lord is even now come;

let not any one deceive you in any manner, because -- if the falling away may not come first, and the man of sin be revealed -- the son of the destruction,

And now ye know that which restraineth, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season.

for the secret of the lawlessness doth already work, only he who is keeping down now will hinder -- till he may be out of the way,

And for this reason God sends them a misleading influence that they may believe the lie;

that they may be judged -- all who did not believe the truth, but were well pleased in the unrighteousness.

As for you, my brethren, the favourites of the Lord, we are oblig'd to render perpetual thanks to God, for having chosen you from the beginning, in purifying you by his spirit, upon your believing the gospel.

It was to this end that He called you through our gospel [the good news of Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection], so that you may obtain and share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore, my brothers, stand fast and hold the teachings which you have been taught, whether by word or by our letter.

and may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who did love us, and did give comfort age-during, and good hope in grace,

Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you:

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

May the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the steadfastness and patience of Christ.

I summon you, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to shun any brother who leads an idle and disorderly life, which is not according to the rule you received from me.

For you know yourselves what you must do to follow my example, for I was not idle when I was with you;

I did not eat my food as a gift from any man, but in toil and travail, night and day, I worked, so that I might not be a burden to any of you.

not that we do not have the right, but so that we may give ourselves [as] an example to you, so that [you] may imitate us.

and such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness working, their own bread they may eat;

and ye, brethren, may ye not be weary doing well,

And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.

and may the Lord of the peace Himself give to you the peace always in every way; the Lord is with you all!

The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand, which is the token in every epistle: so I write.

This is my handwriting. May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.