2 Thessalonians 2:1-9 ▼

1 Now we ask you⁺, brothers, on behalf of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and of our gathering together unto Him,

2 for you⁺ not quickly to be shaken in mind, nor to be alarmed, neither through spirit nor through word, nor through letter as through us, as that the day of the Lord is present.

3 Let no one deceive you⁺ in any way, because it is not unless the apostasy shall have come first, and the man of lawlessness shall have been revealed—the son of destruction,

4 the one opposing and exalting himself above every so-called god or object of worship—so as for him to sit down in the temple of God, setting forth that he himself is God.

5 Do you⁺ not remember that, being still with you⁺, I was saying these things to you⁺?

6 And now you⁺ know what is restraining for him to be revealed in his own time.

7 For the mystery of lawlessness is working already, only the one at present is restraining it until he might be out of the midst.

8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of His mouth and will annul by the appearing of His coming,

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