1.
Now we
beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto
him, 2. 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.
3. 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; 4.
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, showing himself that he is
God. 5. Remember
ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you
these things? 6.
And now ye
know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in
his time. 7.
For the mystery of iniquity doth already work:
only he who now letteth will let, until he be
taken out of the way. 8.
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: 9.
Even him,
whose coming is after the working of Satan with
all power and signs and lying wonders, 10.
And with all
deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that
perish; because they received not the love of the
truth, that they might be saved.
