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.
Mbimbi
1 Ngekwe kuzha kwa She wedu Jesu Kirisiti ne kukubungana kwedu kuti tishangane naye, tomukumbila zwikamu 2 kuti musitongo shangana misholo kene mukapalukamoyo, muyitiwa nge bulebesambeli kene mbiko kene lukwalo, zwinoyi zwakadwa ku tili guti zhuba la She lakatjizha kale. 3 Kushaye unomutjebela nge imwe zila, ngobe zhuba ilelo alitowozha kudzina kupanduka kuzha, na iye mbiimbi ezumbunugwa, iye wakabigigwa kuloba. 4 Unowonyanyayidza, kazwibiga pezhugwi kwe tjimwe ne tjimwe tjinodang'wa kuyi ndzimu kene tjinothigamigwa, naiko unowozwibiga pezhugwi mu Ng'umba ye Ndzimu, ezwidana eti Ndzimu.
5 Apa amutoalakana kene kuti ndakati ndi namwi ndakabe ndimubudza zwithu izwezwi? 6 Ngono ngwenu moziba kuti wakabhakhwa ngeni. Moziba kuti wakabhatigwa kuti akowozumbunugwa nge tjibaka tjakalingisana. 7 Ngobe simba gulu biibi lakasumbikala loshinga kale, koga lowozumbunugwa ha iwoyo wakalibhata adusiwa mu zila. 8 Ngono mbiimbi unowozumbunugwa, ngono She Jesu unowombulaya nge meya ye nlomo uwe, kanlobesa ngekwe kuzha kukwe. 9 Kuzha kwe mbiimbi kowobe kuli kushinga kwa Satani, iye uno shingisa masimba akasiyana siyana nenge zwilakidzo ne matjenamiso e manyepkhwa, 10 nenge bubi gose gwakasiyana siyana gwe butjakwani gunotjebela ibabo banowoloba, ngobe bakalamba kuda malebeswa kuti ndizo batjidziwe. 11 Ngekwa ikoku Ndzimu unobatumila tjidzimilabgwe tjikulu kuti ndizo bagalemoyo mu manyepkhwa, 12 kuti ndizo basakagalamoyo mu malebeswa koga bakazipigwa nge mbipo, bose babong'we nlandu.
Makashaluligwa kutjidziwa
13 Koga takafanila kuboka Ndzimu misi yose nge kwenyu zwikamu zwinodiwa ndi She, ngobe kudwa tjose mu kutangisa, Ndzimu wakamushalulila kutjidziwa nge nshingo we Meya inoyengemadza nenge kugalamoyo kwenyu mu malebeswa. 14 Wakamudanila ikoku nge ndebo mbuya yedu kuti namwibo mube ne gobe mu gudzo la She wedu Jesu Kirisiti. 15 Ndizo, zwikamu, imani makasima kakale mubhatilile mu zwidiyo zwatakapitshila kumuli ne nlomo kene nge lukwalo.
16 Dzene tshene She wedu Jesu Kirisiti nge kukwe ne Ndzimu Tate bedu, ibo bakatida, kakale bakatipa nyaladzo isingapele ne kugalabgwe kwakalulwama nge ngoni dzabo, 17 dzene bangadwilila bakasimisa mimoyo yenyu, mu nshingo mmwe ne mmwe wakanaka nenge dama lakanaka.