⁹The coming of the lawless one is based on Satan’s working, with every kind of miracle, both signs and wonders serving the lie,^ai ¹⁰and with every wicked deception among those who are perishing. They perish because they did not accept the love of the truth and so be saved.^aj ¹¹For this reason God sends them a strong delusion so that they will believe the lie, ¹²so that all will be condemned^ak—those who did not believe^al the truth but delighted in unrighteousness.

STAND FIRM

¹³But we ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because from the beginning^A God has chosen^am you for salvation through sanctification^an by the Spirit and through belief in the truth. ¹⁴He called you to this through our gospel, so that you might obtain the glory^ao of our Lord Jesus Christ. ¹⁵So then, brothers and sisters, stand firm^ap and hold to the traditions you were taught,^aq whether by what we said or what we wrote.

¹⁶May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who has loved^a us and given us eternal encouragement and good hope by grace, ¹⁷encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good work and word.

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2 Thessalonians 2:14: To this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Footnotes

AOther read because as a firstfruit

Cross references

ai Mt 24:24; Mk 13:22; Rv 13:13
aj Ac 16:30; Eph 2:8
ak Jn 5:22–30
al Jn 6:64
am Rm 9:11; 11:5; Eph 1:4; 1Th 1:4
an Rm 6:19; 1Co 1:30; 1Th 4:3; 1Tm 2:15; Heb 12:14; 1Pt 1:2
ao Lk 9:32; Jn 17:24; 2Co 3:18; 1Pt 5:1,4; 2Pt 3:18
ap Rm 14:4; 1Co 16:13; Php 1:27
aq Mk 7:3; 1Tm 4:11; Jd 3
a Jn 3:16; Rv 12:11