because your faith groweth exceedingly, and the love of every one of
you all towards each other aboundeth: (4)so that we ourselves make our
boast of you among the churches of God, for your patience and fidelity
under all your persecutions and afflictions which ye endure: (5)which
is a manifest proof of the righteous judgment of God, that ye should be
counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:
(6)seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to
them that trouble you; (7)and to you who are troubled, rest with us, at
the revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ from heaven with his mighty
angels, (8)in a flame of fire, taking vengeance of them that know not
God, and obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: (9)who shall
receive punishment, even eternal perdition, from the presence of the
Lord, and from the glory of his power: (10)when he shall come to be
glorified in his saints, and to be admired by all those who believe;
because our testimony was believed among you in that day. (11)Wherefore
also we pray continually for you, that our God would count you worthy
of the calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and
the work of faith with power: (12)that the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ may be glorified by you, and you by him, according to the grace
of our God and Lord, Jesus Christ.

CHAP. II.

NOW we entreat you, brethren, with regard to the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ, and our gathering together unto him: (2)that ye be not
hastily agitated with apprehension, nor troubled, neither by spirit,
nor by discourse, nor by letter, as coming from us, as though the day
of the Lord was instantly approaching. (3)Let no man deceive you in any
way: because that cannot be till the apostasy come first, and the man
of sin appear, the son of perdition, (4)who opposeth himself against,
and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or is the object of
adoration; so that he in the temple of God sitteth as God, exhibiting
himself in public that he is God. (5)Do ye not remember that when I was
yet with you, I told you these things? (6)And now ye know what
withholdeth, that he may be revealed in his own time. (7)For the
mystery of iniquity is already powerfully working; only he that
withholdeth hitherto, will do so till he is removed. (8)And then that
lawless person will appear, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit
of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of h