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Insomuch that we also boast of you in the churches of God, on account of your faith, and your patience in all the persecution and trials that ye endure;

for a demonstration of the righteous judgment of God; that ye may be worthy of his kingdom, on account of which ye suffer.

And since it is a righteous thing with God, to recompense trouble to them that trouble you:

when he will execute vengeance, with the burning of fire, on them that know not God, and on them that acknowledge not the gospel of our Lord Jesus the Messiah.

Therefore we pray for you, at all times; that God would make you worthy of your calling, and would fill you with all readiness for good deeds, and with the works of faith by power;

so that the name of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, may be glorified in you, (and) ye also in him; according to the grace of God, and of our Lord Jesus the Messiah.

who is an opposer, and exalteth himself above all that is called God and Worshipful; so that he also sitteth in the temple of God, as a God, and displayeth himself, as if he were God.

Therefore God will send upon them the operation of deception, that they may believe a lie;

But we are bound to give thanks to God always, on your account, my brethren beloved of our Lord, that God hath from the beginning chosen you unto life, through sanctification of the Spirit, and through faith in the truth.

For unto these it was, that God called you by our preaching; that ye might be the glory to our Lord Jesus the Messiah.

And may our Lord Jesus the Messiah himself, and God our Father, who hath loved us, and given us everlasting consolation and a good hope through his grace,

And may our Lord direct your hearts to the love of God, and to a patient waiting for the Messiah.

PAUL, a legate of Jesus the Messiah, by the command of God our life-giver, and of the Messiah, Jesus our hope;

2 to Timothy, [fn] true son in the faith: grace and mercy and peace, from God our Father, and the Messiah, Jesus our Lord.

and not to throw themselves into fables and stories about genealogies, of which there is no end, which produce contention rather than edification in the faith of God.

11 [namely] that of the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I am intrusted [fn] {namely}

And to the king eternal, incorruptible, and invisible, the sole God, be honor and glory for ever and ever ! Amen.

I exhort thee, therefore, first of all, that thou present to God supplication, and prayer, and intercession, and thanksgiving, for all men:

for kings and magistrates, that we may dwell in a quiet and tranquil habitation, with all reverence for God, and with purity.

For this is good and acceptable before God our life-giver;