so that we ourselves make our boast in you in the assemblies of God for your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations, which ye are sustaining;

a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that ye should be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for the sake of which ye also suffer;

if at least it is a righteous thing with God to render tribulation to those that trouble you,

and to you that are troubled repose with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven, with the angels of his power,

when he shall have come to be glorified in his saints, and wondered at in all that have believed, (for our testimony to you has been believed,) in that day.

To which end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of the calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness and the 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 of the Lord Jesus Christ.

that ye be not soon shaken in mind, nor troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter, as if it were by us, as that the day of the Lord is present.

who opposes and exalts himself on high against all called God, or object of veneration; so that he himself sits down in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

Do ye not remember that, being yet with you, I said these things to you?

And now ye know that which restrains, that he should be revealed in his own time.

and in all deceit of unrighteousness to them that perish, because they have not received the love of the truth that they might be saved.

And for this reason God sends to them a working of error, that they should believe what is false,

that all might be judged who have not believed the truth, but have found pleasure in unrighteousness.

But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, that God has chosen you from the beginning to salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

For the rest, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run and be glorified, even as also with you;

and that we may be delivered from bad and evil men, for faith is not the portion of all.

But we trust in the Lord as to you, that the things which we enjoin, ye both do and will do.

Now we enjoin you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw from every brother walking disorderly and not according to the instruction which he received from us.

not that we have not the right, but that we might give ourselves as an example to you, in order to your imitating us.

For also when we were with you we enjoined you this, that if any man does not like to work, neither let him eat.

For we hear that there are some walking among you disorderly, not working at all, but busybodies.

Now such we enjoin and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that working quietly they eat their own bread.

But if any one obey not our word by the letter, mark that man, and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed of himself;