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Therefore we ourselves boast of you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you are enduring.

This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be made worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering--

since indeed God deems it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

inflicting vengeance upon those who do not know God and upon those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

To this end we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his call, and may fulfil every good resolve and work of faith by his power,

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

who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.

Therefore God sends upon them a strong delusion, to make them believe what is false,

But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope,

To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

in accordance with the glorious gospel of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.

To the King of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

This is good, and it is acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,

For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

if I am delayed, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the truth.

who forbid marriage and enjoin abstinence from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving;