The New English Bible; 74; 2 Thessalonians 1-1 Timothy 17

the pieces the second letter of support to the smithsonian's hope and discipline from ports of innocent of mythic to the congregation of this alone in those who belong to god our father and the lord jesus christ grace to you in peace from the father and the lord jesus christ our thanks i'm always due to god for you brothers it is right that we should thank him because your faith increases my to it and the love you have each four or open doors for each grows ever greater indeed we boast about to ourselves among the congregations of god's people because your faith remains so steadfast on their ordeal prosecutions and all the troubles you enjoy it see you know this brings open justice of god's judgment it will prove you worthy of the kingdom of god for which indeed you are suffering

it is surely just that going to balance the account by sending trouble to those at w and relief to you who are troubled and to us as well when our lord jesus christ as revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in blazing fire then he will do justice upon those who refuse to acknowledge garden and upon those who will not will be the gospel of our lord jesus they will suffer the punishment of a term know ruin cut off from the presence of the lord and the splendor of his might weigh in on that great day he comes to be glorified among his own and adored among all believers for you did indeed believe the testimony we brought you with this in mind we pay for you or where's that are god may count you worthy of his calling and mightily bring to four film and every good book post and every

act inspired by faith so that the name of our lord jesus may be glorified in you and you in him according to the grace of our guards after the lord jesus christ and now brothers broke the coming of our lord jesus christ and is gathering of us to himself i beg you do not suddenly lose your kids or alarm yourselves whether at some oreck afterwards or pronouncement or some letter purporting to come from us alleging that the day of the lord is already here that no one deceive you in anyway whatever that they cannot come before the final rebellion against god when wickedness will be revealed in human form the man don't need to petition he is the enemy he rises in its parade against every gone so called every object of men's worship and even takes his seat in the temple of god claiming to be

a gourd himself you can and i remember that i told you this while i was still with you you must know be aware of those three inning hand which insures that he shall be revealed only at the proper time already the secret code of wickedness is at work secret only for the present until the mystery that disappears from the scene and then they would be revealed that we command of the lord jesus will destroy with the breath of his mouth and annihilate by the arabian cities coming but the coming of that wicked men is the work of seton it will be attended by all the powerful signs of that because of the lie and all the deception that sinfulness can impose on those doomed to destruction destroyer they should be because they did not open their minds to love of the truth so as to find

salvation that for god puts them under a delusion which works on the man to believe the lie so that they may or be brought to judgment or who do not believe the truth but make sinfulness that deliberate choice but we're going to thank god for you brother was beloved by the law and because from the beginning of time garden shows you to find salvation in the spirit that consecrate show and in the truth that you believe it was for this that he called you through the gospel we brought so that you might possess for your own the splendor of our lord jesus christ stand firm them brothers and hold fast to the tradition switch you of land from us by word or by letter and may our lord jesus christ himself and god our father who were shown as such and it is grace is given a certain failing encouragement and such great hopes still encourage

and fortify you in every good deed and worried and no brothers pray for us that the word of the lord may have everywhere the swift and glorious course that it has had among new and that we may be rescued from wrongheaded and wicked man for it is not your role of faith up a lot has to be crushed and he will fortify you and god you from the evil one we feel perfect confidence motion in the morgue that you are doing and will continue to do what we order may the lord direct your hearts towards sports love and the steadfastness of christ these are orders to your brothers and the name on lord jesus christ or the move from every christian brother who falls into it to habits and does not follow the

traditions you received from us you know your sales have you or to copy example we were know it lives among you we did not accept boredom launching from anyone without paying for it we toil been wrenched we work for a living night and day rather than be a burden to any of you know because we have not the right to maintenance but to set an example for you to imitate or even during our stay with you we laid down the rules amanda will not work shall not eat we mention this because we hear that some of your number of idling their time away my day everybody's business but they're known for such we give these orders and we appeal to them in the name of the lord jesus christ to work quietly for them having my friends never tire of doing great if anyone disagrees are instructions given by letter marked him well

and have no dealings with him until he is ashamed of himself i do not mean treat him as an enemy but give him friendly advice as one of the family met a lot with peace and self give you peace at all times and it always along be with you all the greeting is in my own hand saying with my name paul this authenticates or my letters this is how i write the grace of our lord jesus christ be with you or the first letter of support to timothy churchill order from poorer apostle of christ jesus like a mind of god our savior christ jesus our hope to demonstrate his true born son in the face grace mercy of bees do you from god the father and christ jesus arm on when i was starting from macedonia i urged you to

stay on the deficits you want to come on certain persons to give up teaching at rodeos doctrines and studying those interminable ms symphony allergies which issue in mere speculation and cannot make known god's plan for us which works through faith the aim and object of this command is love which springs from a clean heart from a good conscience and from faith that is genuine through for a short of these some people have gone astray into a wilderness the words they said oh to be teachers of the moral without understanding either the words they use of the subjects about which there so dogmatic we all know that the more is an excellent thing provided we treat it as a law recognizing that it is not even but good citizens but to the moralists and done really the mp's and sinful the images of willie at palisades and

met his side's murderers and for dictators perverts kidnappers liars burgess effect or whose behavior folks know some teaching which conforms with the gospel and trusted to be the gospel which tales of the glory of god in his he traveled from the city i thank him was made me equal to the task christ jesus or more and i thank him for judging me worthy of this just and appointing me to his service although in the past i had met him with abuse and persecution and outrage but because i acted independently in and belief i was dealt with mercifully the grace of our lord was lavished upon me with the faith and love which are ours in christ jesus hear our words you make last words that merit fool acceptance christ jesus came into the world to save centers

and among men are a stand first but i was mercifully dealt with for this very purpose the jesus christ might find it be the first occasion for displaying on his patients at that i might be typical of oil well in future to have faith in him and gave a terrible life no to the king avoidance a bottle invisible the only gone beyond the glory forever and ever i mean reading has concluded that the seventeenth the us over the first letter of born to timothy