For these are a plain token of God's righteous judgement, which has in view your being deemed worthy of admission to God's Kingdom, for the sake of which, indeed, you are sufferers.

indeed, it is right for God to repay with crushing sorrows those who cause you these crushing sorrows,

These will pay the penalty of eternal destruction from the Lord’s presence and from His glorious strength

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

Now, such as these, we charge and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, - that, with quietness, working, their own bread, they be eating.

and if any one refuses to obey these our written instructions, mark that man and hold no communication with him--so that he may be made to feel ashamed.

These words of love to you at the end are in my writing, Paul's writing, and this is the mark of every letter from me.