The Wicked One
1 Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to be with him: I beg you, my friends, 2 not to be so easily confused in your thinking or upset by the claim that the Day of the Lord has come. Perhaps it is thought that we said this while prophesying or preaching, or that we wrote it in a letter. 3 Do not let anyone deceive you in any way. For the Day will not come until the final Rebellion takes place and the Wicked One appears, who is destined to hell. 4 He will oppose every so-called god or object of worship and will put himself above them all. He will even go in and sit down in God's Temple and claim to be God.
5 Don't you remember? I told you all this while I was with you. 6 Yet there is something that keeps this from happening now, and you know what it is. At the proper time, then, the Wicked One will appear. 7 The Mysterious Wickedness is already at work, but what is going to happen will not happen until the one who holds it back is taken out of the way. 8 Then the Wicked One will be revealed, but when the Lord Jesus comes, he will kill him with the breath from his mouth and destroy him with his dazzling presence. 9 The Wicked One will come with the power of Satan and perform all kinds of false miracles and wonders, 10 and use every kind of wicked deceit on those who will perish. They will perish because they did not welcome and love the truth so as to be saved. 11 And so God sends the power of error to work in them so that they believe what is false. 12 The result is that all who have not believed the truth, but have taken pleasure in sin, will be condemned.
You Are Chosen for Salvation
13 We must thank God at all times for you, friends, you whom the Lord loves. For God chose you as the first to be saved by the Spirit's power to make you his holy people and by your faith in the truth. 14 God called you to this through the Good News we preached to you; he called you to possess your share of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. 15 So then, our friends, stand firm and hold on to those truths which we taught you, both in our preaching and in our letter.
16 May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and in his grace gave us unfailing courage and a firm hope, 17 encourage you and strengthen you to always do and say what is good.
II.
Postora dīnas atnōkšona.
1-2 Brōli, kas atsateic uz myusu Kunga Jezus Kristus atnōkšonu un myusu ar Jū sasavīnōšonu, tod mes jyusus lyudzam, ka jyus tyuliņ bez māra nanūsabeitu un natyktu satrycynōti ni nu kaida gora, ni arī nu kaida vōrda, ni nu myusu vēstules, ka itkai Kunga dīna byutu pavysam tyvu. 3 Lai nivīns jyusu nikai napīkrōp, jo īprīkš jōnōk atkrisšonai un jōpasarōda grāka cylvākam, pazusšonas dālam, 4 kas pretōsīs un sevi ceļs pōrōku par vysu tū, kas ir Dīvs un kas kai dīvišks teik gūdynōts. Jys pat Dīva svētneicā nūsēss un pats sevi nūsauks par Dīvu. 5 Vai jyus vairs napīminit, ka es jums šytū jau saceju, kad pi jums beju. 6 Jyus zynot arī tū, kas jū veļ tagad aizkavej, ka jys pasarōdeitu sovā laikā. 7 Bezdīveibas nūslāpums gon pošlaik ir darbeigs, tikai jōnūbeida nu ceļa tys, kas jū aizkavej. 8 Un tad bezdīveigais pasarōdeis atklōti; tūmār Kungs Jezus ar sovas mutes dvēsmi jū nūnōvēs un caur sovas atnōkšonas spūžumu jū iznycynōs.
9 Tys gon satana spākā uzastōs ar dažaidom vareibas moldu zeimem 10 un breinumu dorbim un ar dažaidim mōnim uz ļaunu pi tim, kas īs pazusšonā, jo tī patīseibas, caur kuru byutu izpesteiti, namīļōja un napījēme. 11 Tōpēc Dīvs ļaun, lai par jim nōktu moldu vara, un lai jī tycātu malim. 12 Un tai lai krystu strōpē visi tī, kas natic patīseibai, bet gon pīkreit nataisneibai.
Pateiceiba par izvēlēšonu.
13 Bet mes jyusu dēļ, Kunga nūmīļōti brōli, asom Dīvam arvīnu pateiceibu porōdā, jo Dīvs jau nu sōkuma jyusus izlaseja pesteišonai caur Gora svātdareišonu un caur ticeibu patīseibai, 14 un caur myusu Evangeliju paaicynōja byut par daleibnīkim myusu Kunga Jezus Kristus gūdeibā.
15 Tai tad, brōli, stōvit drūši un pastōvit tradicijōs, kuras jyus vai mutiski, vai rakstiski nu mums sajēmet. 16 Lai tad Kungs Jezus Kristus un Dīvs myusu Tāvs, kas myusus ir nūmīļōjis un sovā žēlesteibā mums ir devis myužeigu īprīcynōšonu un lobu cereibu, 17 jyusu sirdis īprīcynoj un jyusus ikvīnā lobā dorbā un vōrdā styprynoj.
