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Now, I rejoice in sufferings for you, and I fill up that which is behind of the tribulations of Christ in my flesh, for his body, which is the assembly;

the mystery which [has been] hidden from ages and from generations, but has now been made manifest to his saints;

Whereunto also I toil, combating according to his working, which works in me in power.

Let no one fraudulently deprive you of your prize, doing his own will in humility and worship of angels, entering into things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

Do not lie to one another, having put off the old man with his deeds,

Salute the brethren in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the assembly which [is] in his house.

and to await his Son from the heavens, whom he raised from among the dead, Jesus, our deliverer from the coming wrath.

as ye know how, as a father his own children, we used to exhort each one of you, and comfort and testify,

that ye should walk worthy of God, who calls you to his own kingdom and glory.

For what [is] our hope, or joy, or crown of boasting? [are] not *ye* also before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

in order to the confirming of your hearts unblamable in holiness 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 vessel in sanctification and honour,

not overstepping the rights of and wronging his brother in the matter, because the Lord [is] the avenger of all these things, even as we also told you before, and have fully testified.

He therefore that [in this] disregards [his brother], disregards, not man, but God, who has given also his Holy Spirit to you.

and to you that are troubled repose with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven, with [the] angels of his power,

who shall pay the penalty [of] everlasting destruction from [the] presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his might,

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.

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,

And now ye know that which restrains, that he should be revealed in his own time.

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;