So that I myself am boasting about you among the churches of God, boasting of the stedfastness and faith which you are displaying in all the troubles and afflictions which you are enduring.

when he comes to be glorified in his saints, and to be wondered at in all believers, on that Day; (for you also believed our testimony).

so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in him, according to the grace of our God and of our Lord Jesus Christ.

the adversary, who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God, or is an object of worship; so that he takes his seat in the Temple of God, and vaunts himself as God.

Do you not recall that I often told you this, when I was with you?

And now you know what is holding him back, to the end that he may be revealed in his appointed time.

For this reason God is sending on them an energy of delusion, that they should put faith in a falsehood;

so that they all should be condemned, who are faithless to the truth, but take pleasure in evil.

For this he called you through my gospel, so that you might obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Finally, brothers, pray on for me, that God's word may run swiftly, and be glorified as in your own case,

and that I may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men; for all do not hold the faith.

Now we have fully fixed our faith on you in the Lord, that you are doing and will continue to do what we enjoin.

I did not eat my food as a gift from any man, but in toil and travail, night and day, I worked, so that I might not be a burden to any of you.

Not that I have no right to such support; it was simply to give you an example for you to imitate.

But I hear that there are those of your number who are leading idle and disorderly lives, who are not busy, but mere busybodies.

If any man does not give heed to what I have said in this letter, mark that man; do not associate with him, so as to make him feel ashamed;