So that we ourselves boast in you in all the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your expulsions and pressures which ye endure:

When he should come to be honoured in his holy ones, and to be admired in all the believing, (that our testimony among you was believed) in that day.

For which also we pray always for you, that our God would deem you worthy of the calling, and fill all the benevolence of goodness, and work of faith in power:

So that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ be honoured in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

For you not to be quickly shaken in mind, neither be disturbed, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by epistle as by us, as that the day of Christ has drawn near.

Who being opposed and lifted up above all called God, or which is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

Remember ye not, that, yet being with you, I spake these to you

That all might be judged not believing the truth but contented in iniquity.

And we ought to return thanks to God always for you, brethren dearly beloved by the Lord, that God chose you from the beginning to salvation in consecration of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

As to the rest, pray, brethren, for us, that the word of the Lord may run, and be honoured, as also with you:

And that we may be delivered from unfit and evil men: for not faith of all.

And we have had confidence in the Lord for you, that what we announce to you, and ye do and will do.

For ye yourselves know that ye ought to imitate us: for we were not disorderly among you;

Not that we have not power, but that we give ourselves a type to you to imitate us.

For also when we were with you, this we proclaimed to you, that if any will not work, neither should he eat.

And to such we proclaim and beseech by our Lord Jesus Christ, that, with freedom from care working, they should eat their own bread.

And if any listen not to our word by the epistle, mark him, and mix not together with him, that he may change.