It is with this view also that we continually pray to our God for you, asking that He will count you worthy of His call, and by His mighty power fully gratify your every desire for what is truly good and make your work of faith complete;

Have you no memory of what I said when I was with you, giving you word of these things?

Now you know what is restraining him, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season.

And for this cause, God will give them up to the power of deceit and they will put their faith in what is false:

So that they all may be judged, who had no faith in what is true, but took pleasure in evil.

But it is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, loved by the Lord, because it was the purpose of God from the first that you might have salvation, being made holy by the Spirit and by faith in what is true:

We have confidence in the Lord that you are doing and will continue to do what we command.

For you yourselves know what you must do to imitate us. We never lived in idleness among you.

In fact, when we were with you, this is what we commanded you: “If anyone isn’t willing to work, he should not eat.”

Brothers, do not get tired of doing what is right.

And if any man does not give attention to what we have said in this letter, take note of that man, and keep away from him, so that he may be shamed.