Unceasing thanks are due from us to God on your behalf, brethren. They are appropriate because your faith is growing greatly, and the love of every one of you for all the others goes on increasing.

They are an evidence of the righteous judgment of God, who will count you worthy of his kingdom, in behalf of which you are even now suffering.

They shall suffer punishment, even an eternal destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the brightness of his glorious majesty,

and with a completely wicked deception for men who are on the way to destruction, because they refused to love the truth so as to be saved.

This is why God sends them a misleading influence till they actually believe what is false,

so that they might be condemned--all those who did not believe the truth, but who delighted in unrighteousness.

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, for you to withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the tradition, which they received from us.

Indeed, we hear that some among you are leading an undisciplined and inappropriate life, doing no work at all, but acting like busybodies [meddling in other people’s business].

Now to such men we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that, working with quietness, they should eat their own bread.