And in this regard we pray for you always, that our God will make you worthy of his calling and fulfill by his power your every desire for goodness and every work of faith,

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,

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

Consequently God sends on them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false.

and to you who are being afflicted to give rest together with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels.

It was not because we do not have that right, but to give ourselves as an example for you to imitate.