Study Desk

by keeping us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. As a result, they are constantly filling up their sins to the limit, and wrath has overtaken them at last.

So we wanted to come to you—even I, Paul, time and again—but Satan hindered us.

so that no one will be shaken by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are appointed to this.

so that you may behave properly in the presence of outsiders and not be dependent on anyone.

We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, concerning those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

Then we who are still alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.

So then, let us not sleep, like the rest, but let us stay awake and be self-controlled.

who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him.

We ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, since your faith is flourishing and the love each one of you has for one another is increasing.

so that the name of our Lord Jesus will be glorified by you, and you by him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he sits in God’s temple, proclaiming that he himself is God.

And you know what currently restrains him, so that he will be revealed in his time.

For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work, but the one now restraining will do so until he is out of the way,

and with every wicked deception among those who are perishing. They perish because they did not accept the love of the truth and so be saved.

For this reason God sends them a strong delusion so that they will believe the lie,

so that all will be condemned—those who did not believe the truth but delighted in unrighteousness.

He called you to this through our gospel, so that you might obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

So then, brothers and sisters, stand firm and hold to the traditions you were taught, whether by what we said or what we wrote.

we did not eat anyone’s food free of charge; instead, we labored and toiled, working night and day, so that we would not be a burden to any of you.

It is not that we don’t have the right to support, but we did it to make ourselves an example to you so that you would imitate us.