These persecutions will vindicate the justice of God's judgment, and will result in your being reckoned worthy of God's Kingdom, for the sake of which you are now afflicted;

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

These will receive the punishment of eternal destruction as exiles from the presence of the Lord and His glorious might,

Do you not remember that, when I was still 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.