We must always thank God for you, brothers. This is right, since your faith is flourishing and the love each one of you has for one another is increasing.

This is a proof of God's righteous judgment, His aim being to let you show yourselves worthy of His kingdom, for which you are suffering; since,

Since it is a righteous thing according to God to repay restriction to those who restrict you,

and with the full deceitfulness of evil for those who are doomed to perish, since they refuse to love the Truth that would save them.

Also pray that we may be rescued from worthless and evil people, since not everyone holds to the faith.