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and we charged you, to walk as it becometh God, who hath called you to his kingdom and his glory.

For what is our hope, and our joy, and the crown of our glorying; unless it be ye, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

and establish your hearts unblamable in holiness, before God our Father; at the advent of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, with all his saints.

and that each one of you might know how to possess his vessel, in sanctity and in honor;

and that ye dare not to transgress and to overreach any one his brother, in this matter; because our Lord is the avenger of all these, as also we have said and testified to you in time past.

He therefore who spurneth, spurneth not man but God, who hath given his Holy Spirit in you.

We are bound to give thanks to God always, on your account, my brethren, as it is proper; because your faith groweth exceedingly, and, in you all, the love of each for his fellow increaseth.

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

and you, who are the troubled, he will vivify, with us, at the manifestation of our Lord Jesus the Messiah from heaven, with the host of his angels;

For these will be recompensed with the judgment of eternal destruction, from the presence of our Lord, and from the glory of his power;

when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to display his wonders in his faithful ones; for our testimony concerning you, will be believed, in that day.

And now, ye know what hindereth his being manifested in his time.

then at length will that evil One be revealed; whom our Lord Jesus will consume by the breath of his mouth, and will bring to naught by the visibility of his advent.

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,

12 And I thank him who strengthened me, [fn] our Lord Jesus the Messiah; who accounted me faithful, and appointed me to his ministry;

But for this cause had he mercy on me, that in me first Jesus the Messiah might display all his long suffering, for an example to them who were to believe on him unto life eternal.

and one that guideth well his own house, and holdeth his children in subjection with all purity.

For if he knoweth not how to guide his own house well, how can he guide the church of God.

But if any one careth not for them who are his own, and especially for them who are of the household of faith, he hath rejected the faith, and is worse than the unbelievers.

For the scripture saith Thou shalt not muzzle the ox in threshing; and, The laborer is worthy of his pay.