He called you to this salvation<n id="1" /> through our gospel, so that you may possess the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.<n id="2" />

Now may the Lord direct your hearts toward the love of God<n id="1" /> and the endurance of Christ.<n id="2" />p>

And so<n id="1" /> you know what holds him back,<n id="2" /> so that he will be revealed in his own time.

Consequently<n id="1" /> God sends on them a deluding influence<n id="2" /> so that they will believe what is false.

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

<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.

And in this regard we pray for you always, that our God will make you worthy of his calling<n id="1" /> and fulfill by his power your every desire for goodness and every work of faith,

not to be easily<n id="1" /> shaken from your composure or disturbed by any kind of spirit or message or letter allegedly from us,<n id="2" /> to the effect that the day of the Lord is already here.

He<n id="1" /> opposes <i>and exalts himself above everyi> so-called <i>godi> or object of worship, and as a result <i>he takes his seati><n id="2" /> in God&#8217;s temple, displaying himself as God.<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">But we ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters<n id="1" /> loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning<n id="2" /> for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth.