so that we ourselves make our boast in you in the assemblies of God for your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations, which ye are sustaining;

a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that ye should be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for the sake of which ye also suffer;

To which end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of the calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness and the work of faith with power,

And now ye know that which restrains, that he should be revealed in his own time.

So then, brethren, stand firm, and hold fast the instructions which ye have been taught, whether by word or by our letter.

But we trust in the Lord as to you, that the things which we enjoin, ye both do and will do.

Now we enjoin you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw from every brother walking disorderly and not according to the instruction which he received from us.

The salutation by the hand of me, Paul, which is the mark in every letter; so I write.