so that we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God, for your patience and faith under all your persecutions and afflictions which ye endure.

the son of perdition, who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or the object of worship; so that he sits as God in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

And for this cause God will send upon them the efficacy of error, so that they shall themselves believe the lie:

neither did we eat any one's bread for nothing; but with labor and toil, working night and day, that we might not be burthensome to any of you.

The salutation of me Paul by my own hand, which is the token in every epistle; for so I write,