To this end we always pray for you too, asking our God to find you worthy of the call he has given you, and by his power to fulfil every desire you may have for goodness, and every effort of your faith,

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.

in order that all may be judged and condemned who did not believe the truth [about their sin, and the need for salvation through Christ], but instead took pleasure in unrighteousness.

Neither took we bread of any man for nought: but wrought with labour and travail night and day, because we would not be grievous to any of you:

We hear, in fact, of some who are walking among you in a disorderly way, at nothing, working, yet too busily working!