[2:1] Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers,
[2:2] not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.
[2:3] Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,
[2:4] who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
[2:5] Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things?
[2:6] And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time.
[2:7] For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way.
[2:8] And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming.
[2:9] The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders,
[2:10] and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
[2:11] Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false,
[2:12] in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.