So as for us ourselves to have pride in you in the congregations of God, for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the tribulations that ye endure,

when he comes to be glorified in his sanctified, and to be marveled in that day by all those who believe (because our testimony among you was believed).

For which also we pray always about you, so that our God will make you worthy of the calling, and will fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power.

So 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 Lord Jesus Christ.

for ye not to be quickly shaken from your mind, nor to be alarmed, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by a letter as by us, as that the day of the Christ has come.

who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or an object of worship, so as for him to sit in the temple of God, as God, displaying himself that he is God.

Do ye not remember that when I was yet with you I told you these things?

And now ye know that which restrains, for him to be revealed in his own time.

so that they might be condemned--all those who did not believe the truth, but who delighted in unrighteousness.

So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions that ye were taught, whether by word or by letter from us.

Finally, brothers, pray about us, so that the word of the Lord may run and be glorified, just as also with you,

and that we may be delivered from aberrant and wicked men, for the faith is not of all men.

And we are persuaded in Lord toward you, that what we command you, ye both are doing and will do.

Not because we have no right, but that we might give ourselves an example to you, in order to imitate us.

For even when we were with you we commanded you this, that if any man will not work, neither let him eat.

Now to such men we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that, working with quietness, they should eat their own bread.

And if any man does not obey our word by this letter, note that man, and do not associate with him, so that he may be ashamed.