Therefore, we ourselves boast about you among God’s churches—about your endurance and faith in all the persecutions and afflictions you endure.

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

Because of this God will send upon them a misleading influence, [an activity of error and deception] so they will believe the lie,

Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.