Surely you recall that I used to tell you these things while I was still with you.

For even when we were with you, we used to give you this command: “If anyone is not willing to work, neither should he eat.”

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

For you know yourselves how you must imitate us, because we did not behave without discipline among you,

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 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.