so that we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God, for your patience and faith under all your persecutions and afflictions which ye endure.

Which are a demonstration of the just judgement of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:

seeing it is a righteous thing with God to render affliction to those that afflict you;

in that day, when He shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe; because our testimony among you was believed.

Wherefore we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:

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

we beseech you, brethren, that ye be not soon moved from your steadiness of mind, or troubled, neither by Spirit, nor by word, nor by letter, as from us, that the day of Christ is at hand.

the son of perdition, who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or the object of worship; so that he sits as God in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

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

For the mystery of iniquity is already working, only there is one that hindreth till he be taken out of the way.

and wonders, and with all iniquitous fraud, among those that shall perish; because they received not the love of the truth, by which they might be saved.

And for this cause God will send upon them the efficacy of error, so that they shall themselves believe the lie:

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

As for the rest, my brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run, and be glorified, as it is among you:

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

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

neither did we eat any one's bread for nothing; but with labor and toil, working night and day, that we might not be burthensome to any of you.

Not that we have not power, but that we might give ourselves as an example to you to imitate us.

For we hear that there are some among you that walk disorderly, doing no work themselves, but very busy in the affairs of others.

Such we charge and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that they work quietly and earn their own bread.

by this epistle, mark such a one, and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed.