in a blaze of fire, and takes vengeance on the godless who will not listen to the good news of our Lord Jesus.

not to let your minds be too easily unsettled or wrought up, by any message of the Spirit or any utterance or letter purporting to be from me, to the effect that the Day of the Lord has already come.

You must not let anyone deceive you at all. For that is not until the rebellion takes place and the embodiment of disobedience makes his appearance??e who is doomed to destruction,

the adversary of every being that is called a god or an object of worship, and so overbearing toward them as to enter God's sanctuary and take his seat there, proclaiming himself to be God??5 do you not remember that when I was with you, I used to tell you this?

and that we may be saved from unjust and wicked men; for not everybody has faith.

For you know yourselves what you must do to follow my example, for I was not idle when I was with you;

I did not eat anybody's bread without paying for it, but with toil and labor I worked night and day, in order not to be a burden to any of you.

Not that I had not a right to my support, but to give you in my own conduct an example to imitate.

For we hear that some of you are living in idleness, mere busybodies, not doing any work.

But you, brothers, must not get tired of doing right.

If anyone refuses to obey what we have said in this letter, mark the man and do not have anything to do with him, to make him feel ashamed.

Do not look upon him as an enemy but warn him as a brother.