Online Bible 1995 March/ROM-1025.iso/olb/masters/texts/darby.lzh/2TH.LZH/2TH

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1:1 Paul and Silvanus and Timotheus to the assembly of
 Thessalonians in God our Father and [the] Lord Jesus Christ.
1:2 Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and [the] Lord
 Jesus Christ.
1:3 We ought to thank God always for you, brethren, even as it
 is meet, because your faith increases exceedingly, and the love
 of each one of you all towards one another abounds;
1:4 so that we ourselves make our boast in you in the assemblies
 of God for your endurance and faith in all your persecutions
 and tribulations, which ye are sustaining;
1:5 a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, to the
 end that ye should be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for
 the sake of which ye also suffer;
1:6 if at least [it is a] righteous thing with God to render
 tribulation to those that trouble you,
1:7 and to you that are troubled repose with us, at the
 revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven, with [the] angels of
 his power,
1:8 in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who know not God,
 and those who do not obey the glad tidings of our Lord Jesus
 Christ;
1:9 who shall pay the penalty [of] everlasting destruction from
 [the] presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his might,
1:10 when he shall have come to be glorified in his saints, and
 wondered at in all that have believed, (for our testimony to
 you has been believed,) in that day.
1:11 To which end we also pray always for you, that our God may
 count you worthy of the calling, and fulfil all [the] good
 pleasure of [his] goodness and [the] work of faith with power,
1:12 so that the name of our Lord Jesus [Christ] may be
 glorified in you and *ye* in him, according to the grace of our
 God, and of [the] Lord Jesus Christ.
2:1 Now we beg you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus
 Christ and our gathering together to him,
2:2 that ye be not soon shaken in mind, nor troubled, neither by
 spirit, nor by word, nor by letter, as [if it were] by us, as
 that the day of the Lord is present.
2:3 Let not any one deceive you in any manner, because [it will
 not be] unless the apostasy have first come, and the man of sin
 have been revealed, the son of perdition;
2:4 who opposes and exalts himself on high against all called
 God, or object of veneration; so that he himself sits down in
 the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
2:5 Do ye not remember that, being yet with you, I said these
 things to you?
2:6 And now ye know that which restrains, that he should be
 revealed in his own time.
2:7 For the mystery of lawlessness already works; only [there
 is] he who restrains now until he be gone,
2:8 and then the lawless one shall be revealed, whom the Lord
 Jesus shall consume with the breath of his mouth, and shall
 annul by the appearing of his coming;
2:9 whose coming is according to the working of Satan in all
 power and signs and wonders of falsehood,
2:10 and in all deceit of unrighteousness to them that perish,
 because they have not received the love of the truth that they
 might be saved.
2:11 And for this reason God sends to them a working of error,
 that they should believe what is false,
2:12 that all might be judged who have not believed the truth,
 but have found pleasure in unrighteousness.
2:13 But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren
 beloved of [the] Lord, that God has chosen you from [the]
 beginning to salvation in sanctification of [the] Spirit and
 belief of [the] truth:
2:14 whereto he has called you by our glad tidings, to [the]
 obtaining of [the] glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2:15 So then, brethren, stand firm, and hold fast the
 instructions which ye have been taught, whether by word or by
 our letter.
2:16 But our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father,
 who has loved us, and given [us] eternal consolation and good
 hope by grace,
2:17 encourage your hearts, and establish you in every good work
 and word.
3:1 For the rest, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the
 Lord may run and be glorified, even as also with you;
3:2 and that we may be delivered from bad and evil men, for
 faith [is] not [the portion] of all.
3:3 But the Lord is faithful, who shall establish you and keep
 [you] from evil.
3:4 But we trust in the Lord as to you, that the things which we
 enjoin, ye both do and will do.
3:5 But the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and
 into the patience of the Christ.
3:6 Now we enjoin you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus
 Christ, that ye withdraw from every brother walking disorderly
 and not according to the instruction which he received from us.
3:7 For ye know yourselves how ye ought to imitate us, because
 we have not walked disorderly among you;
3:8 nor have we eaten bread from any one without cost; but in
 toil and hardship working night and day not to be chargeable to
 any one of you:
3:9 not that we have not the right, but that we might give
 ourselves as an example to you, in order to your imitating us.
3:10 For also when we were with you we enjoined you this, that
 if any man does not like to work, neither let him eat.
3:11 For we hear that [there are] some walking among you
 disorderly, not working at all, but busybodies.
3:12 Now such we enjoin and exhort in [the] Lord Jesus Christ,
 that working quietly they eat their own bread.
3:13 But *ye*, brethren, do not faint in well-doing.
3:14 But if any one obey not our word by the letter, mark that
 man, and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed
 of himself;
3:15 and do not esteem him as an enemy, but admonish [him] as a
 brother.
3:16 But the Lord of peace himself give you peace continually in
 every way. The Lord [be] with you all.
3:17 The salutation by the hand of me, Paul, which is [the] mark
 in every letter; so I write.
3:18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you all.