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that you not be quickly shaken from your ^(F1)composure or be disturbed either by a ^(C1)spirit, or a ^(F2)(C2)message, or a ^(C3)letter as if from us, to the effect that ^(C4)the day of the Lord ^(C5)has come.

^(C1)No one is to deceive you in any way! For it will not come unless the ^(F1)(C2)apostasy comes first, and the ^(C3)man of lawlessness is revealed, the ^(C4)son of destruction,

who opposes and exalts himself above ^(F1)(C1)every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, ^(C2)displaying himself as being God.

Do you not remember that ^(C1)while I was still with you, I was telling you these things?

And you know ^(C1)what restrains him now, so that he will be revealed in his time.

For ^(C1)the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only ^(F1)(C2)He who now restrains will do so until ^(F1)He is ^(F2)removed.

Then that lawless one ^(C1)will be revealed, whom the Lord will eliminate ^(C2)with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the ^(C3)appearance of His ^(F1)coming;

that is, the one whose ^(F1)coming is in accord with the activity of ^(C1)Satan, with all power and false ^(F2)(C2)signs and wonders,

and with ^(F1)all the deception of wickedness for ^(C1)those who perish, because they did not accept the love of ^(C2)the truth so as to be saved.

For this reason ^(C1)God ^(F1)will send upon them ^(F2)a ^(C2)deluding influence so that they will believe ^(F3)what is false,