so that we ourselves glory in you in the assemblies of God, for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations which ye endure;

a proof of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that ye may be accounted worthy of the Kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer;

when He shall come to be glorified in His saints, and to be marveled at in all who believed (because our testimony to you was believed), in that day.

To which end we also pray for you always, that our God may account you worthy of your calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and 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 Lord Jesus Christ.

that ye be not quickly shaken from your mind, nor be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as from us, as that the day of the Lord has set in.

Let no one deceive you in any manner; because that day will not come, unless the falling away come first, and the man of lawlessness be revealed??he son of perdition;

he that opposes himself against, and exalts himself above, all that is called God, or that is worshiped; so that he sits in the temple of God, exhibiting himself as God.

Do ye not remember that, when I was yet with you, I was wont to tell you these things?

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

And, for this cause, God sendeth them a working of delusion, that they may believe the lie;

that they all may be judged, who believe not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run and be glorified, as also it is with you:

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

And we have become confident in the Lord regarding you, that ye both do, and will do, the things which we command.

For ye yourselves know that ye should imitate us; because we were not disorderly among you;

nor did we eat any one's bread, gratuitously: but, in labor and toil, working night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you;

not because we have not authority, but that we might give ourselves as a model to you, that ye might imitate us.

Now such we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that, working with quietness, they eat their own bread.

And, if anyone obey not our word through this letter, note this one, not to associate with him, that he may be ashamed.