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Now we ask you, brothers and sisters, regarding the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him,

Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,

that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit, or a message, or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.

That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.

No one is to deceive you in any way! For it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,

Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

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

Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

Do you not remember that while I was still with you, I was telling you these things?

Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?

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

And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.

For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is removed.

For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

Then that lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will eliminate with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming;

And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

that is, the one whose coming is in accord with the activity of Satan, with all power and false signs and wonders,

Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

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

And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false,

And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness.

That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.