so that we boast of you in the churches of God, of your patience and faith, in all your persecutions and the afflictions which you endure,

a token of the righteous judgment of God that you should be deemed worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer,

in a flame of fire, executing judgment on all that know not God and obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus;

when he shall come to be glorified in his saints and to be admired by all that believe in that day, for our testimony was believed by you.

For which also we pray always for you, that our God will account you worthy of the calling, and accomplish all the good pleasure of [his] goodness and the work of faith with power;

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

that you be not soon shaken in mind, nor terrified, neither by a spirit, nor by a discourse, nor by an epistle as from us, as though the day of the Lord was at hand.

who opposes and exalts himself above every thing that is called a god or an object of worship, so that he sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

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

and with every unrighteous deceit among those who are destroyed, because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved.

And therefore, God sends them a power of delusion that they should believe a lie,

that they all may be condemned who believe not the truth but have pleasure in wickedness.

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

and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men; for all have not faith.

And we trust in the Lord with respect to you, that you both do and will do what we direct.

not that we have not a right [to a support], but that we may make ourselves an example for you to follow us.

For when we were with you, we gave you this charge, that if any one will not work, neither let him eat.

For we hear that some go about among you in a disorderly manner, not working, but being above work;

But if any one obeys not our word by this epistle, mark that one, and have no association with him, that he may be ashamed;