and that we may be delivered from perverse and evil people. For not all have faith.

encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good thing you do or say.

Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way. The Lord be with you all.

We ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith flourishes more and more and the love of each one of you all for one another is ever greater.

But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one.

For it is right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

And so all of them who have not believed the truth but have delighted in evil will be condemned.

For we hear that some among you are living an undisciplined life, not doing their own work but meddling in the work of others.

Yet do not regard him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.

when he comes to be glorified among his saints and admired on that day among all who have believed – and you did in fact believe our testimony.

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by grace gave us eternal comfort and good hope,

They will undergo the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his strength,

For the hidden power of lawlessness is already at work. However, the one who holds him back will do so until he is taken out of the way,

The arrival of the lawless one will be by Satan’s working with all kinds of miracles and signs and false wonders,

And we are confident about you in the Lord that you are both doing – and will do – what we are commanding.

I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand, which is how I write in every letter.

This is evidence of God’s righteous judgment, to make you worthy of the kingdom of God, for which in fact you are suffering.

and then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will destroy by the breath of his mouth and wipe out by the manifestation of his arrival.

and with every kind of evil deception directed against those who are perishing, because they found no place in their hearts for the truth so as to be saved.