so that you are the subject of our glorying in the churches of God, for the constancy of your faith, under all the persecutions and afflictions you endure from men,

These men will pay the penalty of unutterable Ruin--banished 'from the presence of the Lord and from the glorious manifestation of his might,

Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

[But] for now, there is something holding him back [i.e., holding back the man of lawlessness from emerging, See verses 3-4], and you people know what it is. [It is restraining him] so that he will not be revealed until his own [due] time.

For lawlessness is already at work in secret; but only until the man who is now exercising a restraining influence is removed,

and full of wicked deception for men who are going to destruction, because they refused to love the truth and be saved.

And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith.

Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:

For also when we were with you we enjoined you this, that if any man does not like to work, neither let him eat.

Now to such men we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that, working with quietness, they should eat their own bread.

And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.

The salutation of Paul with mine own hand, which is the token in every epistle: so I write.