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The next file is: 2THESSALONIANS
1:1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, to the church of the
 Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
1:2 Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord
 Jesus Christ.
1:3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is
 meet, because your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity
 of every one of you all towards each other aboundeth;
1:4 So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God,
 for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and
 tribulations that ye endure:
1:5 [Which is] a manifest token of the righteous judgment of
 God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for
 which ye also suffer:
1:6 Seeing [it is] a righteous thing with God to recompense
 tribulation to them that trouble you;
1:7 And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord
 Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
1:8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God,
 and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
1:9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the
 presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
1:10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be
 admired by all them that believe (because our testimony among
 you was believed) in that day.
1:11 Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would
 count you worthy of [this] calling, and fulfill all the good
 pleasure of [his] goodness, and the work of faith with power:
1:12 That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in
 you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God, and of
 the Lord Jesus Christ.
2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord
 Jesus Christ, and [by] our gathering to him.
2:2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither
 by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the
 day of Christ is at hand.
2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for [that day shall not
 come], except there come a falling away first, and that man of
 sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called
 God, or that is worshiped; so that he as God sitteth in the
 temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
2:5 Remember ye not, that when I was yet with you, I told you
 these things?
2:6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed
 in his time.
2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who
 now restraineth [will] restrain, until he be taken out of the
 way.
2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord will
 consume with the spirit of his mouth, and will destroy with the
 brightness of his coming:
2:9 [Even him], whose coming is after the working of Satan, with
 all power, and signs, and lying wonders,
2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that
 perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that
 they might be saved.
2:11 And for this cause God will send them strong delusion, that
 they should believe a lie:
2:12 That they all may be damned who believed not the truth, but
 had pleasure in unrighteousness.
2:13 But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you,
 brethren, beloved by the Lord, because God hath from the
 beginning chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of
 the Spirit, and belief of the truth:
2:14 To which he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of
 the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2:15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions
 which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
2:16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our
 Father, who hath loved us, and hath given [us] everlasting
 consolation and good hope through grace,
2:17 Comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word
 and work.
3:1 Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord
 may have [free] course, and be glorified, even as [it is] with
 you;
3:2 And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked
 men: for all [men] have not faith.
3:3 But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you, and keep
 [you] from evil.
3:4 And we have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that ye
 both do and will do the things which we command you.
3:5 And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and
 into the patient waiting for Christ.
3:6 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus
 Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that
 walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he
 received from us.
3:7 For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we
 behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;
3:8 Neither did we eat any man's bread for naught; but wrought
 with labor and toil night and day, that we might not be
 chargeable to any of you:
3:9 Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves a
 pattern to you to follow us.
3:10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that
 if any would not work, neither should he eat.
3:11 For we hear that there are some who walk among you
 disorderly, working not at all, but are busy-bodies.
3:12 Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord
 Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own
 bread.
3:13 But ye, brethren, be not weary in well-doing.
3:14 And if any man obeyeth not our word by this epistle, note
 that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
3:15 Yet count [him] not as an enemy, but admonish [him] as a
 brother.
3:16 Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all
 means. The Lord [be] with you all.
3:17 The salutation of Paul with my own hand, which is the token
 in every epistle: so I write.
3:18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you all. Amen.