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.

Let no one deceive you by any means. For it will not come until after the Great Apostasy, and the revealing of the Man of Sin, the son of perdition,

For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only there is one who is hindering and will continue to hinder till he be removed;

and then the lawless one will be revealed. Him the Lord will consume with the breath of his lips, and destroy with the brightness of his appearing;

But the Lord is faithful; he will stablish you and guard you from the Evil One.

Now we have fully fixed our faith on you in the Lord, that you are doing and will continue to do what we enjoin.

For indeed when I was with you, I used to charge you, "If any man will not work, he shall not eat."