For this reason God is sending on them an energy of delusion, that they should put faith in a falsehood;

so that they all should be condemned, who are faithless to the truth, but take pleasure in evil.

But for you, brothers, whom the Lord loves, I ought to give thanks to God continually, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation in consecration of the Spirit and belief of the truth.

But the Lord is faithful; he will stablish you and guard you from the Evil One.

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.

But I hear that there are those of your number who are leading idle and disorderly lives, who are not busy, but mere busybodies.

But you, brothers, must not grow weary in well-doing.

and yet do not count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.