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

encourage your hearts and strengthen you<n id="1" /> in every good thing you do or say.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way. The Lord be with you all.

<t /><p class="bodytext">We ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> and rightly so,<n id="2" /> 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<n id="1" /> will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one.

For it is right<n id="1" /> for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

And so<n id="1" /> all of them who have not believed the truth but have delighted in evil will be condemned.<n id="2" />p>

For we hear that some among you are living an undisciplined life,<n id="1" /> not doing their own work but meddling in the work of others.<n id="2" />

Yet do not regard him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.<n id="1" />p>

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.<n id="1" />p>

when he comes to be glorified among his saints and admired<n id="1" /> on that day among all who have believed &#8211; and you did in fact believe our testimony.<n id="2" />

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<n id="1" /> will undergo the penalty of eternal destruction, <i>away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his strengthi>,<n id="2" />

For the hidden power of lawlessness<n id="1" /> is already at work. However, the one who holds him back<n id="2" /> will do so until he is taken out of the way,

The arrival of the lawless one<n id="1" /> will be by Satan&#8217;s working with all kinds of miracles<n id="2" /> and signs and false wonders,

And we are confident about you in the Lord that you are both doing &#8211; and will do &#8211; what we are commanding.

I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand, which is how I write in every letter.<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">This is evidence of God&#8217;s righteous judgment, to make you worthy<n id="1" /> of the kingdom of God, for which in fact you are suffering.

and then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord<n id="1" /> 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<n id="1" /> those who are perishing, because they found no place in their hearts for the truth<n id="2" /> so as to be saved.