2 Thessalonians 2

¹Now we beg you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him,

²that ye be not soon shaken in mind, nor troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter, as [if it were] by us, as that the day of the Lord is present.

³Let not any one deceive you in any manner, because [it will not be] unless the apostasy have first come, and the man of sin have been revealed, the son of perdition;

⁴who opposes and exalts himself on high against all called God, or object of veneration; so that he himself sits down in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

⁵Do ye not remember that, being yet with you, I said these things to you?

⁶And now ye know that which restrains, that he should be revealed in his own time.

⁷For the mystery of lawlessness already works; only [there is] he who restrains now until he be gone,

⁸and then the lawless one shall be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus shall consume with the breath of his mouth, and shall annul by the appearing of his coming;

⁹whose coming is according to the working of Satan in all power and signs and wonders of falsehood,

¹⁰and in all deceit of unrighteousness to them that perish, because they have not received the love of the truth that they might be saved.

¹¹And for this reason God sends to them a working of error, that they should believe what is false,

¹²that all might be judged who have not believed the truth, but have found pleasure in unrighteousness.

¹³But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of [the] Lord, that God has chosen you from [the] beginning to salvation in sanctification of [the] Spirit and belief of [the] truth: