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to the establishing your hearts blameless in sanctification before our God and Father, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.

that each of you know his own vessel to possess in sanctification and honour,

that no one go beyond and defraud in the matter his brother, because an avenger [is] the Lord of all these, as also we spake before to you and testified,

he, therefore, who is despising -- doth not despise man, but God, who also did give His Holy Spirit to us.

and to you who are troubled -- rest with us in the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven, with messengers of his power,

who shall suffer justice -- destruction age-during -- from the face of the Lord, and from the glory of his strength,

when He may come to be glorified in his saints, and to be wondered at in all those believing -- because our testimony was believed among you -- in that day;

and now, what is keeping down ye have known, for his being revealed in his own time,

and then shall be revealed the Lawless One, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the manifestation of his presence,

his own house leading well, having children in subjection with all gravity,

(and if any one his own house [how] to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)

and if any one for his own -- and especially for those of the household -- doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

for the Writing saith, `An ox treading out thou shalt not muzzle,' and `Worthy [is] the workman of his reward.'

which in His own times He shall shew -- the blessed and only potentate, the King of the kings and Lord of the lords,

therefore thou mayest not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but do thou suffer evil along with the good news according to the power of God,

who did save us, and did call with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, that was given to us in Christ Jesus, before the times of the ages,

sure, nevertheless, hath the foundation of God stood, having this seal, `The Lord hath known those who are His,' and `Let him depart from unrighteousness -- every one who is naming the name of Christ.'

and they may awake out of the devil's snare, having been caught by him at his will.

I do fully testify, then, before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who is about to judge living and dead at his manifestation and his reign --

henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of the righteousness that the Lord -- the Righteous Judge -- shall give to me in that day, and not only to me, but also to all those loving his manifestation.