May you have unearned favor and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

On that day Jesus will return to be honored by His saints [i.e., God's holy people] and to be marveled at [i.e., in reverence] by all those who had believed [in Him]. [This will happen] because you have believed our testimony to you [about Christ].

This is why we always pray for you also, so that our God will consider you worthy to be [i.e., to have been] called [into the kingdom] by Him, and will fulfill, by His power, every good purpose [or, "desire for goodness"] of yours and every act produced by [your] faith.

in order that all those who have not believed the truth, but have taken pleasure in wrongdoing, would be condemned.

And we have confidence in [the fellowship of] the Lord concerning you, that you are doing, and will continue to do the things we command you.

[We did this], not because we did not have a right [to support], but so we could become an example for you to imitate.