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Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my physical body—for the sake of his body, the church—what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ.

that is, the mystery that has been kept hidden from ages and generations, but has now been revealed to his saints.

Toward this goal I also labor, struggling according to his power that powerfully works in me.

Let no one who delights in false humility and the worship of angels pass judgment on you. That person goes on at great lengths about what he has supposedly seen, but he is puffed up with empty notions by his fleshly mind.

For the one who does wrong will be repaid for his wrong, and there are no exceptions.

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus our deliverer from the coming wrath.

As you know, we treated each one of you as a father treats his own children,

exhorting and encouraging you and insisting that you live in a way worthy of God who calls you to his own kingdom and his glory.

For who is our hope or joy or crown to boast of before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not of course you?

so that your hearts are strengthened in holiness to be blameless before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

that each of you know how to possess his own body in holiness and honor,

In this matter no one should violate the rights of his brother or take advantage of him, because the Lord is the avenger in all these cases, as we also told you earlier and warned you solemnly.

Consequently the one who rejects this is not rejecting human authority but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.

and to you who are being afflicted to give rest together with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels.

They will undergo the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his strength,

when he comes to be glorified among his saints and admired on that day among all who have believed—and you did in fact believe our testimony.

And in this regard we pray for you always, that our God will make you worthy of his calling and fulfill by his power your every desire for goodness and every work of faith,

He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, and as a result he takes his seat in God's temple, displaying himself as God.

And so you know what holds him back, so that he will be revealed in his own time.

and then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will destroy by the breath of his mouth and wipe out by the manifestation of his arrival.