I ought always to thank God for you, brothers, as is fitting because of the abundant growth of your faith and of the overflowing love with which every one of you is filled toward one another.

So that I myself am boasting about you among the churches of God, boasting of the stedfastness and faith which you are displaying in all the troubles and afflictions which you are enduring.

To this end I am making my constant prayer for you, beseeching God to make you worthy of your calling, and to fulfil mightily every desire of goodness and effort of faith;

For this reason God is sending on them an energy of delusion, that they should put faith in a falsehood;

and that I may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men; for all do not hold the faith.

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