They will pay the penalty of never ending destruction, being banished from the presence of the Lord and from His mighty splendor.

and all kinds of wicked deception toward those people who are perishing [spiritually], because they refused to love the truth so they could be saved.

And this is the reason that God sends them a strong delusion [to influence them]: It is so that they would believe the lie,

Now we command and urge such people, in [the fellowship of] the Lord Jesus Christ, that they work quietly and earn their own living.