For it is right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

and to you who are being afflicted to give rest together with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels.

With flaming fire he will mete out punishment on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

when he comes to be glorified among his saints and admired on that day among all who have believed -- and you did in fact believe our testimony.

For the hidden power of lawlessness is already at work. However, the one who holds him back will do so until he is taken out of the way,

and then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will destroy by the breath of his mouth and wipe out by the manifestation of his arrival.

and with every kind of evil deception directed against those who are perishing, because they found no place in their hearts for the truth so as to be saved.

And so all of them who have not believed the truth but have delighted in evil will be condemned.

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by grace gave us eternal comfort and good hope,

But we command you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from any brother who lives an undisciplined life and not according to the tradition they received from us.