So that we ourselves glory of you in the churches of God, for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and sufferings which ye endure:

A manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be accounted, worthy of the kingdom of God; for which also ye suffer.

Seeing it is a righteous thing with God, to recompence affliction to them that afflict you.

And to you that are afflicted rest with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his mighty angels,

When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all that believe (now that our testimony was believed among you) in that day.

To this end we pray always for you, that our God would make you worthy of this calling, and fulfill in you 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 ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

and our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind or terrified, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter, as from us, as if the day of the Lord were at hand.

Let no man deceive you by any means, for that day shall not come, unless the falling away come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition,

Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God as God, declaring himself that he is God.

Remember ye not, that I told you these things, when I was yet with you?

And now ye know that which with-holdeth, that he may be revealed in his time.

For the mystery of iniquity already worketh; only he that with-holdeth will with-hold, till he be taken out of the way.

And then will that wicked one be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the Spirit of his mouth, and destroy with the brightness of his coming:

And with all deceiveableness of unrighteousness in them that perish, because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

And therefore God shall send them strong delusion, so that that they shall believe a lie,

That they all may be condemned, who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run and be glorified, even as among you:

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

And we trust in the Lord concerning you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you.

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly and not according to the tradition which he received of us.

Neither did we eat any man's bread for nothing, but wrought with labour and toil, night and day, that we might not burden any of you.

Not because we have not power; but that we might make ourselves an example to you, that ye might imitate us.

And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.