so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which ye endure;

if so be that it is righteous thing with God to recompense affliction to them that afflict you,

he that opposeth and exalteth himself against all that is called God or that is worshipped; so that he sitteth in the temple of God, setting himself forth as God.

So then, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye were taught, whether by word, or by epistle of ours.

neither did we eat bread for nought at any man's hand, but in labor and travail, working night and day, that we might not burden any of you:

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