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That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.

Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?

Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.

Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,

For ye are our glory and joy.

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?

Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.

But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.

Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:

For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:

For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.

As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,

Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:

For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.

But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:

Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.

For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:

But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.

For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile: