If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting,

Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

Watch yourselves, so that you may not lose what we have worked for, but may win a full reward.

For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist. 

In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory. 

In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, 

 who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind

For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews

And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men[e] but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.

And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit, 

 because our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction. You know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake.